Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Statistics are the heart of democracy.

Simon Armitage

The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.

Simon Beaufoy

India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.

Simon Beaufoy

They say crying makes the heart lighter

Simon Callow

Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.

Sid Waddell

Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint.

Sheryl Lee

And in the middle of one of those scenes, I suddenly felt my heart just open: it was overwhelming, to the point where I got teary-eyed. Never would I have thought anything like that could happen in a love scene.

Sheryl Sandberg

I think when tragedy occurs, it presents a choice. You can give in to the void, the emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, constricts your ability to think or even breathe. Or you can try to find meaning. These past thirty days, I have spent many of my moments lost in that void. And I know that many future moments will be consumed by the vast emptiness as well. But when I can, I want to choose life and meaning.

Shekhar Kapur

Cosmetic companies are trying to turn India into a nation of Albinos. No dark area on any part of the body. Except maybe our hearts. Got a cream for that?

Sharon Olds

When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.

Sharon Salzberg

Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion.

Sharon Salzberg

We do good because it frees the heart. It opens us to a wellspring of happiness.

Sharon Salzberg

What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union.

Sharon Salzberg

Meditation clarifies our minds and opens our hearts, and brings us to unusual depth and stability of happiness, whatever life brings.

Neil Patrick Harris

I think things through a lot, so I probably use my head more than my heart. That probably comes through in my acting.

Natalie Goldberg

Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the heart of the storm, written words dripping off hair, eyelids, hanging from hands.

Natalie Goldberg

Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.

Natalie Goldberg

Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth.

Natalie Portman

People who take everything to heart trivia - the most capable of genuinely love.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

On the meeting point of two worlds, the ornament of Turkish homeland, the treasure of Turkish history, the city cherished by the Turkish nation, İstanbul, has its place in the hearts of all citizens.

Taylor Swift

I think that there's a difference between getting your heart broken and getting let down.

Taylor Swift

This is the last time I'm asking you this, put my name at the top of your lsit. This is the last time I'm asking you why. You break my heart in the blink of an eye.

Tayari Jones

Nine Years Under is a sparkling debut--- brimming with love and bursting with life. Booker's Baltimore is equal parts The Wire and The Cosby show. She doesn't shrink from the realities of life in an inner city funeral home, but she is also a loving witness, documenting the big hearted community that takes care of its own. Told with compassion, wit, and good old fashioned story telling, Sheri Booker gives us unforgettable characters who will make you laugh right up until they break your heart.

Tatiana Maslany

Film has always been where my heart is.

Tara Lipinski

I love stepping onto the ice knowing I can create whatever I want or am feeling that day. It inspires me to be creative and artistic. It's a great therapeutic outlet to utilize both my heart and body at the same time.

Tara Reid

It is a very vulnerable feeling to lose something very close to your heart or someone very dear to you.

Tao Lin

I know,' said Erin, and described how she'd lately felt depressed in a new and scary way, which Paul also had felt lately and described as a sadness-based fear, immune to tone and interpretation, as if not meant for humans - more visceral than sadness, but unlike fear because it decreased heart rate and impaired the senses, causing everything to seem 'darker.

Tara Brach

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.

Tara Brach

Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts.

Tara Brach

If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.

Tara Brach

Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance. If we are holding back from any part of our experience, if our heart shuts out any part of who we are and what we feel, we are fueling the fears and feelings of separation that sustain the trance of unworthiness. Radical Acceptance directly dismantles the very foundations of this trance.