Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tara Brach

Even a few moments of offering lovingkindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.

Tara Brach

We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives.

Tara Brach

Most of us need to be reminded that we are good, that we are lovable, that we belong. If we knew just how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected the hearts of those around us, we'd reach out and join hands again and again. Our relationships have the potential to be a sacred refuge, a place of healing and awakening. With each person we meet, we can learn to look behind the mask and see the one who longs to love and be loved.

Josh Ryan Evans

I have had heart surgery three times, so I know what it was like to have pins and needles stuck in you.

Joseph Conrad

The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.

Joseph Conrad

The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.

Joseph Conrad

The vision seemed to enter the house with me-the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient worshippers, the gloom of the forests, the glitter of the reach between the murky bends, the beat of the drum, regular and muffled like the beating of a heart-the heart of a conquering darkness.

Joseph Conrad

There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope.

Joseph Conrad

For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in the short moment of each human effort.

Joseph Conrad

One wonders that there can be found a man courageous enough to occupy the post. It is a matter of meditation. Having given it a few minutes I come to the conclusion in the serenity of my heart and the peace of my conscience that he must be either an extreme megalomaniac or an utterly unconscious being.

Joseph Conrad

You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search the darkest corners of your heart, the most remote recesses of your brain, - you must search them for the image, for the glamour, for the right expression. And you must do it sincerely, at any cost: you must do it so that at the end of your day's work you should feel exhausted, emptied of every sensation and every thought, with a blank mind and an aching heart, with the notion that there is nothing, - nothing left in you.

Joseph Conrad

The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.

Joseph Conrad

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

Joseph Conrad

The mind of man is capable of anything.

Joseph Conrad

All roads are long which lead to one's heart's desire.

Joshua Chamberlain

I know in whom all my highest hopes and dearest joys are centered. I know in whom my whole heart can rest — so sweetly and so surely.

Joshua Ferris

All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.

Joshua Harris

You are so amazed by grace, you're not picking a fight with anyone, you're just crying tears of amazement that should lead to a heart for lost people, that God does indeed save, when he doesn't have to save anybody.

Joshua Harris

Just because lips have met doesn't mean hearts have joined. And just because two bodies are drawn to each other doesn't mean two people are right for each other. A physical relationship does not equal love.

Joshua Harris

Lord, help me to appreciate this woman/man without elevating her/him above you in my heart. Help me to remember that nobody can ever take your place in my life. You are my strength, my hope, my joy, and my ultimate reward. Bring me back to reality, God. Give me an undivided heart.

Joshua Harris

True purity, however, is a direction, a persistent, determined pursuit of righteousness. This direction starts in the heart, and we express it in a lifestyle that flees opportunities for compromise.

Joseph Haydn

When I think upon my God, my heart is full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen.

Joseph Haydn

Since God has given me a cheerful heart, He will forgive me for serving Him cheerfully.

Joseph Haydn

When I think of my God, my heart dances within me for joy, and then my music has to dance, too.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of this, a significant clue to the whole affair.

Joseph Butler

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Your heart has a little empty corner. You won't even know I'm there -- I'll be very quiet.

Joseph de Maistre

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Kate Seredy

Nothing fine and noble will ever perish from the earth as long as there are hearts to remember.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

Leonard Cohen

My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear as you gather up my days. Your name is the sweetness of time, and you carry me close into the night, speaking consolations, drawing down lights from the sky, saying, See how the night has no terrors for one who remembers the name.

Leonard Cohen

Well, I've been waiting, I was sure we'd meet between the trains we're waiting for I think it's time to board another Please understand, I never had a secret chart to get me to the heart of this or any other matter

Leonard Cohen

Who could have foretold the heart grows old from touching others