Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dalai Lama

Once your mind is calm and full of love, there is no room for hatred or fear. Others will trust you because of your open heart.

Dalai Lama

There is no denying that consideration of others is worthwhile and that our happiness is inextricably bound up with the happiness of others. There is no denying that if society suffers, we ourselves suffer, and the more our hearts and minds are afflicted with ill-will, the more miserable we become. We can reject religion, ideology, received wisdom, but we cannot escape the need for love and compassion.

Dalai Lama

The purpose of life is to increase the warm heart.

Dalai Lama

Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.

Dalai Lama

A simple smile. That's the start of opening your heart and being compassionate to others.

Dalai Lama

Great changes start with individuals; the basis of world peace is inner peace in the hearts of individuals.

Dalai Lama

The proper use of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart.

Dalai Lama

Friends, genuine friends, have much more to do with whether we have a warm heart, not money or power.

Dalai Lama

The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves. On a simple level we find that if we have a compassionate heart we naturally have more friends. And scientists today are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.

Dalai Lama

If your heart has peace, nothing can disturb you.

Dodie Smith

Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.

Dodie Smith

It came to me that Hyde Park has never belonged to London - that it has always been , in spirit, a stretch of countryside; and that it links the Londons of all periods together most magically - by remaining forever unchanged at the heart of a ever-changing town.

Dolly Parton

I'll never harden my heart but I've toughened the muscles around it.

Dolly Parton

If I could get their attention long enough, I felt they would see beneath the boobs and find the heart, and that they would see beneath the wig and find the brains. I think one big part of whatever appeal I possess is the fact that I look totally one way and that I am totally another. I look artificial, but I'm not.

Dolly Parton

There's a scripture that says, 'A merry heart doeth good like medicine.' I think that's true, too.

Dolly Parton

Kenneth Hari is a true artist and in my opinion a psychic. When he is painting you, he feels your heart and soul.

Dolly Parton

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them.

Dolly Parton

I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things.

Dolly Parton

A great smile is a wonderful asset, but a good heart is pure gold.

Dolly Parton

I stay close to my roots and my family. I never want to forget any part of it. I'm still just a hillbilly at heart, thus a Backwoods Barbie.

Dolly Parton

I always had a very open mind and a very open heart. I always look for the good in everybody and the God in everybody. I play to that. And I just love people. I love the difference in people. I love getting to know people. I appreciate getting accepted myself, because I know I'm unusual. And I love the unusual in other people.

Dolly Parton

I hope people realise that there is a brain underneath the hair and a heart underneath the boobs.

Dolly Parton

There's a heart beneath the boobs and a brain beneath the wig.

Dino De Laurentiis

I always say my age is connected with three Cs. In here, cuore, which means the heart. Up here, cervello, which is the brain. And, of course, down here: the coglioni. I no feel my age, I tell you.

Dinah Shore

I'd like people to remember that I really tried everything within my range of reality. And that whatever I did, I did with all my heart.

Dick Francis

A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence - and then go over and catch it.

Dick Gephardt

Al Gore is a good man. He is a decent, caring man. He listens to his heart and his head. He loves his family.

Dick Morris

How, voters will ask, can we cover 50 million new people without any new doctors or nurses? The answer is to ration health care, with the U.S. government deciding whom will get hip and knee replacements, heart bypass surgery and all manner of medical treatments. And what does rationing mean? It means that the elderly will be denied care, which they can now get whenever they want it.

Desmond Tutu

There’s no question about the reality of evil, of injustice, of suffering, but at the center of this existence is a heart beating with love. That you and I and all of us are incredible. I mean, we really are remarkable things. That we are, as a matter of fact, made for goodness.

Desmond Tutu

Just as I need other human beings in order to learn from them, so I also need their trust. If we aren't aware of that, if we fail to take it to heart and instead betray other people's trust, things will go badly with us.

Derek Walcott

Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

Derek Walcott

Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

Derek Luke

When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart.