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When I encounter a sunrise, a painting, a woman, or an idea that makes my heart bound like a young calf, then I know I am standing in front of happiness.
Nikos KazantzakisRead
Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
Anne CarsonRead
Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
Evelyn WaughRead
Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place – to one friend rather than another and one shire more that all the land.
C. S. LewisRead
We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
Alain De BottonRead
There is evil! It's actual, like cement. I can't believe it. I can't stand it. Evil is not a view ... it's an ingredient in us. In the world. Poured over us, filtering into our bodies, minds, hearts, into the pavement itself.
Philip K. DickRead
I have a hole where my heart should be, she thought, and nowhere else to go.
George R. R. MartinRead
Every person has the truth in his heart. No matter how complicated his circumstances, no matter how others look at him from the outside, and no matter how deep or shallow the truth dwells in his heart, once his heart is pieced with a crystal needle, the truth will gush forth like a geyser.
Che GuevaraRead
This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.
Mother TeresaRead
And thus it came to pass that the Silmarils found their long homes: one in the airs of heaven, and one in the fires of the heart of the world, and one in the deep waters.
J. R. R. TolkienRead
How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
J. R. R. TolkienRead
Indeed the Book of Job avowedly only answers mystery with mystery. Job is comforted with riddles; but he is comforted. Herein is indeed a type, in the sense of a prophecy, of things speaking with authority. For when he who doubts can only say, ‘I do not understand,’ it is true that he who knows can only reply or repeat ‘You do not understand.’ And under that rebuke there is always a sudden hope in the heart; and the sense of something that would be worth understanding.
Gilbert K. ChestertonRead
If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.
Khalil GibranRead
There’s a morning when presence comes over your soul. You sing like a rooster in your earth-colored shape. Your heart hears and, no longer frantic, begins to dance.
RumiRead
There are as many loves as there are hearts.
Leo TolstoyRead
For you do not yet know the strengths of your hearts, and you cannot foresee what each may meet on the road.
J. R. R. TolkienRead
That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeRead
And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.
Fyodor DostoevskyRead
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
Thomas CarlyleRead
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
Thomas CarlyleRead

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