Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Woolman

After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me.

John Woolman

I saw that a humble man, with the blessing of the Lord, might live on a little; and that where the heart is set on greatness, success in business did not satisfy the craving, but that commonly with an increase of wealth, the desire of wealth increased.

John Woolman

There is a principle which is pure, placed in the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names. It is, however, pure and proceeds from God. It is deep and inward, confined to no forms of religion nor excluded from any, where the heart stands in perfect sincerity. In whomsoever this takes root and grows, of what nation soever, they become brethren in the best sense of the expression.

John Wooden

You never fail if you know in your heart that you did the best of which you are capable.

John Ruskin

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

John Ruskin

Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.

John Ruskin

He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent there are the wild love, or the keen sorrow, to give one instant's pleasure to the pulseless heart, or atone in the lowest measure to the departed spirit for the hour of unkindness, will scarcely for the future incur that debt to the heart which can only be discharged to the dust.

John Ruskin

Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.

John Ruskin

God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.

John Ruskin

The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.

John Ruskin

Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.

John Ruskin

No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.

John Ruskin

Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of it, nor in the thoughts and stirrings of the brain of it;--but in the dedication of them all to Him who will raise them up at the last day.

John Ruskin

When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will look upon with praise and thanksgiving in their hearts.

John Ruskin

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

John Prine

If heartaches was commercials, we'd all be on TV.

Mark Twain

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

Mark Twain

A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.

Mark Twain

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

Mark Twain

He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy, vindictiveness, revengefulness, hatred, selfishness, the only animal that loves drunkenness, almost the only animal that could endure personal uncleanliness and a filthy habitation, the sole animal in whom was fully developed the base instinct called patriotism, the sole animal that robs, persecutes, oppresses and kills members of his own tribe, the sole animal that steals and enslaves the members of any tribe.

Mark Twain

Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind, politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.

Mark Twain

One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.

Mark Twain

No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

Mark Twain

Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor

Marianne Williamson

If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you.

Marianne Williamson

So many of us have not attended to the deeper issues in ourselves; in our minds, our hearts, and in our external manifestations that keep love at bay. We instead concentrate on making a list of what we're looking for in another person.

Marianne Williamson

Our hearts are being stretched to span the violence and the suffering in our lives and world, and at the same time we are also witness to so much magnificence and brilliance. We are a species that has produced nuclear weapons, and also one that has developed profound insight into the nature of life itself.

Marianne Williamson

There is no way that carrying fifty or sixty extra pounds is easy on your heart, your lungs, or your liver. That's a fact. Every person in the world, no matter what size, shape, or form they are, deserves respect and love. But that doesn't mean we are supposed to pretend that something is healthy when in fact it is not.

Marianne Williamson

You have to make a space in your heart, in your mind and in your life itself for authentic human connection.

Marianne Williamson

The entire world would feel the vibration if America returned to its heart.

Marianne Williamson

We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.

Marianne Williamson

When we stay close to the wisdom of our knowing, seeking solutions to our problems in the sanctuary of the heart and not in the vanity of the mind, then we can pretty much trust in the unfolding, mysterious wisdom of life.

Marianne Williamson

Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And NEVER do it for the money, Go to work to spread joy.