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The heart contains great treasure 

• You want magic. You want miracles. You want magnificence. All these things and much, much more are contained in your own heart. Robert Beno
• Why do we have to listen to our hearts?” “Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you’ll find your treasure. Paulo Coelho
• We keep so busy talking, we are so keen to act, that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact. Angelus Silesius
• It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. Henry Ward Beecher 
• Our heart always transcends us. Rainer Maria Rilke
• Emotion,  Love,  Compassion,  The soul

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The seat of wisdom is in the heart 

• There is a wisdom of the head, and… a wisdom of the heart. Charles Dickens
• The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. William Hazlitt
• There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophies. Friedrich Nietzche
• It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see. Thomas Carlyle
• Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books. William Cowper
• Many find their heart when they have lost their head. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Consult the wisdom of your heart as well as your mind. Stephen Covey
• As long as we don’t cut off our hearts, the inner workings of the universe illuminate before us. Rivera Sun
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The heart always knows… 

• My heart knows what my mind only think it knows. Noah Benshea
• Go to your bosom: Knock there and ask your heart what it doth know. William Shakespeare
• Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows. Dan Brown
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… always containing the answer 

• Only the heart knows the correct answer. Most people think the heart is mushy and sentimental. But it’s not. The heart is intuitive; it’s holistic, it’s contextual, it’s relational. It doesn’t have a win- lose orientation. It taps into the cosmic computer – the field of pure potentiality, pure knowledge, and infinite organizing power – and takes everything into account. At times it may not even seem rational, but the heart has a computing ability that is far more accurate and far more precise than anything within the limits of rational thought.   Deepak Chopra
• God, why do I storm heaven for answers that are already in my heart? Every grace I need has already been given me. Oh, lead me to the Beyond within. Macrina Wieherkehr

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Your heart makes you who you really are 

• All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Life does not happen in your head, it happens in your heart… Robert Beno

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The heart speaks for and reveals the soul 

• The most sacred place dwells within our heart, where dreams are born and secrets sleep, a mystical refuge of darkness and light, fear and conquest, adventure and discovery, challenge and transformation. Our heart speaks for our soul every moment while we are alive. Listen… as the whispering beat repeats: be…gin, be…gin, be…gin. It’s really that simple. Just begin… again. Royce Addington
• You cannot find your soul with your mind, you must use your heart. You must know what you are feeling. If you don’t know what you are feeling, you will create unconsciously. If you are unconscious of an aspect of yourself; if it operates outside your field of awareness, that aspect has power over you. Gary Zukav
• The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore, the principles of the power of perception and the soul’s ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart. Aristotle
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The heart always has its reasons 

• The heart has its reasons, but the mind makes the excuses. Amit Abraham
• The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. Blaise Pascal
• Accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields…. Kahlil Gibran
• The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. Jacques Benigne Bossuel

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The heart knows what’s real and worth cherishing 

• If my heart could do my thinking, and my head begin to feel, I would look upon the world anew, and know what’s truly real. Van Morrison
• All that is worth cherishing begins in the heart. Suzanne Chapin
• We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. Thornton Wilder
• Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Bible
• The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.

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All healing is first a healing of the heart 

• All healing is first a healing of the heart. Carl Townsend 
• The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it’s been broken into a million pieces. Robert James Waller
• To heal from the inside out is the key. Wynonna Judd
• In every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it. Marianne Williamson
• There’s only one thing that can heal the heart… Only one… It’s love, Gaara. Masashi Kishimoto
• When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight. Michael Bridge
• Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people’s souls. Melody Beattie   
• Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. Isham
• It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts. Steve Maraboli  
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Without the caring of the heart, intellect and knowledge of the mind is sterile and lifeless 

• It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.   Mark Twain
• Only one book is worth reading: the heart. Ajahn Chah
• If the world kept a journal, many of the entries would be conversations concerning the advancement of scientific knowledge and its importance to humanity. I offer the following conversation as an added entry: “And what is as important as knowledge?” asked the mind.    “Caring,” answered the heart. Flavia Weedn
• Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. Aristotle  
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Make friends with your heart 

• Your greatest foe is between your ears. Your greatest friend is between your ribs. Robert Beno
• Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart. Robert Brault

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Live life from your heart and be true to it 

• Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people’s souls. Melody Beattie   
• Your heart’s voice is your true voice. It is easy to ignore it, for sometimes it says what we’d rather it did not–and it is so hard to risk the things we have. But what life are we living, if we don’t live by our hearts? Not a true one. And the person living it is not the true you. Susan Fletcher
• Being fully alive,  Do what you love

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Follow a life path with a heart 

• Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t, it is of no use. Carlos Castaneda
• A path is only a path, and there’s no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you to do. Carlos Castenada
• The way is not in the sky, the way is in the heart. For the traveler who knows his direction, there is always a favorable wind. Stuart Avery Gold  
• There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take the one with a heart. Lao Tzu
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Give in to your heart’s longing 

• Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. John Heywood
• The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream. Paulo Coelho
• The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart wants what the heart wants. Stephen King
• In your heart, keep one still secret spot where dreams may go and be sheltered so they may thrive and grow. Louise Driscoll    
• The heart knows what it wants, and it often makes no sense. Intuition, creativity, and listening are all imperative in creating an inspired life. Jonathan H. Ellerby
• To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. Kahlil Gibran 
• What you call freedom is still nothing but choosing how to steer straight into the heart of what chooses you. Kate Gleason   
• Every heart has a hidden treasure. A secret wish. A silent dream. A special goal to long for. Jill Wolf
• Your brain can tell you what to do, but your heart will give you the desire to DO IT. It is this heart power that will make the difference between being just another “wannabe’ or becoming a true champion. Dan Brent Burt
• Give voice to what you long for in the deepest place in your heart. Debbie Ford
• It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dream of meeting your heart’s longing. Oriah Mountain Dreamer
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Put your heart into what you do 

• Isn’t it time to turn your heart into a temple of fire? Rumi
• Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do. Jennifer Aniston
• There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart…pursue those. Michael Nolan
• Wherever you go, go with all your heart. Confucius
• Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your heart. Bible (Ecclesiastes 9:10)
• When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight. Michael Bridge
• Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. Norman Vincent Peale
• We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts. John Ruskin
• The key is to trust your heart to move where your talents can flourish. This old world will really spin when work becomes a joyous expression of the soul. Al Sacharov 
• Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness. Saint Augustine
• Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too. Meryl Streep 
• Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Future superstars don’t get there by keeping part of their heart in reserve. John Eliot
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Hold onto your heart 

• One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too. Friedrich Nietzsche

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Make your heart a garden 

• May our heart’s garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers. Thich Nhat Hanh
• The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there? Jack Kornfield

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Pray from the heart 

• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. Mahatma Gandhi
• Prayer requires more of the heart than the tongue. Adam Clarke
• Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God. Philip Henry
• When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart. John Bunyan
• When I worship, I would rather my heart be without words than my words be without heart. LaMar Boschman
• The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts. Richard Alleine
• God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer. Mother Teresa
• In essence, prayer is communion with mystery. And for that reason, there can be no one right way to do it, no prescription for prayer that will minister to everyone’s needs. However, perhaps there is one requisite: that our heart be in it. Sherry Ruth Anderson and Patricia Hopkins
• Religion’s in the heart, not in the knees. David Jerold
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Never lose your child’s heart 

• The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart. Mencius
• If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this. Kitaro Nishida 
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Fill your heart to the brim

• If your heart is full, you don’t feel that hungry. H. Swami Tejomayananda
• In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. Antonio Porchia 

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Fill your heart with love 

• May your heart open ever deeper, expanding ever greater in its journey into higher states of love. You are a miracle. Robert Beno
• A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love. Mother Teresa
• Her heart–like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away–was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw. George MacDonald
• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. Washington Irving
• There’s only one thing that can heal the heart… Only one… It’s love, Gaara. Masashi Kishimoto
• I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love. Robert Tizon
• Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. Lao Tzu
• The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love. Charles-Victor de Bonstettin
• To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten. Arne Garborg    
• When you truly feel this equal love for all, when your heart has expanded so much that it embraces the whole of creation, you will certainly not feel like giving up this or that. You will simply drop off from secular life as a ripe fruit drops from the branch of a tree. You will feel that the whole world is your home. Ramana Maharshi
• When we love unconditionally, with our hearts wide open, we feel joyfulness. Arnold Patent
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When it comes to love, the heart is bottomless 

• When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it’s bottomless. Pema Chodron
• Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths! Rumi  

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Fill your heart with gratitude 

• The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings. Henry Ward Beecher
• Let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessing. Henry Ward Beecher
• Getting in the gratitude groove softens the heart, opens the mind, causing even seemingly ordinary things to become sacred. Michael Bernard Beckwith
• We are most alive when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. Thornton Wilder
• As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world. Adabella Radici
• I wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. Kahlil Gibran
• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• In the dew of little things, the heart finds it’s morning and is refreshed. Kahlil Gibran
• Gratitude takes three forms: a feeling in the heart, an expression in words, and a giving in return. John Wanamaker
• Thou has given me so much… Give me one thing more, a grateful heart. George Herbert
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Fill your heart with sunshine 

• When you peer into the world through the eyes of your heart, darkness gives way to light… Robert Beno
• All the windows of my heart I open to the day. John Greenleaf Whittier
• Let the rays of your heart shine on all who pass by. Terri Guillemets
• The stormy life can be braved only by the heart’s sunny meditations. Sri Chinmoy
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Fill your heart with peace 

• While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. Saint Francis of Assisi
• You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart. George Michael
• Peace in the world starts with peace in your heart. Marta Davidovich Ockuly 
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Fill your heart with understanding 

• God’s purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart. Rumi
• Jealousy is the lock that closes your heart, understanding is the key that opens it. Ken Petti
• We shall light a candle of understanding in our hearts which shall not be put out. Jewish Proverb
• It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart. Blaise Pascal
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Fill your heart with forgiveness 

• Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them. Marvin J. Ashton
• If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom? Khalil Gibran
• Keeping our hearts and minds free of the debris of resentment and animosity is vital to our spiritual awakening. Michael Bernard Beckwith
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Fill your heart with joy

• May everyone be happy and safe, and may their hearts be filled with joy. Buddha 
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Fill your heart with passion and enthusiasm 

• Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Isn’t it time to turn your heart into a temple of fire? Rumi
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Trust your intuitive heart 

• Trust your intuitive heart. Open your eyes and heart to your greatest source of wisdom and grace. Set aside a little quiet time to clear your mind and listen. Pay attention only to the calm thoughts and feelings that surface. Richard Carlson
• Come from the heart, the true heart, not the head. When in doubt, choose the heart. This does not mean to deny your own experiences and that which you have empirically learned through the years. It means to trust yourself to integrate intuition and experience. There is a balance, a harmony to be nurtured, between the head and the heart. When the intuition rings clear and true, loving impulses are favored. Brian L. Weiss
• We all have an inner voice, our personal whisper from the universe. All we have to do is listen — feel and sense it with an open heart. Sometimes it whispers of intuition or precognition. Other times, it whispers an awareness, a remembrance from another plane. Dare to listen. Dare to hear with your heart. J. Heck
• Follow your heart and intuition, they already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. Steve Jobs
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Let your heart guide you 

• Go with your heart, buddy. Our brains only screw things up.  Chris Fedak
• Trust your instincts and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you. David Gemmell
• Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out. Sir Girad
• Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather than what you think, consider instead how you feel. Look to the nature of things. Feel your choices and decisions. It just might change everything. Jeffrey R. Anderson
• Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength. Chinese Proverb
• Alas! there is no instinct like the heart… Lord Byron
• Your heart knows not how to lie. Kak Sri
• You know you’ve made the right decision when there is peace in your heart.
• Today I will witness the choices I make in each moment. When I make a choice, I will ask myself two questions: What are the consequences? Will it bring happiness and fulfillment to me and those effected by this decision? Then I will ask my heart for guidance and be guided by its feeling of comfort or discomfort. Deepak Chopra
• A quick way to insanity is to listen to the world, and what it has to say about you. A sure way to stay sane is to listen to the gentle guidance given by your own heart.  Robert Beno
• How long does it take to truly follow your heart without interference or interjection, intrusion or incisive remarks from the mind? It takes longer if you don’t start. Robert Beno
• One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.   Antoine de Saint- Exupéry
• Only do what your heart tells you. Princess Diana
• If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart. Marilyn vos Savant
• Follow your heart and intuition, they already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. Steve Jobs
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Listen to your heart carefully… 

• I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am.  Sylvia Plath
• When your heart speaks, take good notes. Judith Campbell
• When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. Milan Kundera
• Words spoken from the mind may be interesting, perhaps stimulating and even engaging but words spoken from the heart are invariably profound, gently moving and often transforming… Robert Beno
• Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen carefully.  Littlefoot’s mother, Land Before Time
• You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart. George Michael
• Listen and attend with the ear of your heart. Saint Benedict
• Only do what your heart tells you. Princess Diana
• Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength. Hasidic saying
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… by being still 

• It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. T. Jong
• Follow your heart but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.
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Following your heart takes courage 

• The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all. Ted Hughes
• When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don’t touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people? Tori Amos
• None of us needs instruction in how to recognize what your heart is saying. We do need guidance, however, on how to have the courage to follow those feelings, since they will force us to change our lives in any case. But consider the consequences of not listening to the heart’s guidance: depression, confusion, and the wretched feeling that we are not on our life’s true path, but viewing it from a distance. Caroline Myss
• A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable. Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let your mind be led by the heart    

• When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. Milan Kundera
• My heart knows what my mind only thinks it knows. Noah Benshea
• Have a strong mind and a soft heart. Anthony J. D’Angelo
• Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart. Mahatma Gandhi
• It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see. Thomas Carlyle
• Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart. Phil Jackson
• The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion. Everett Dirksen
• The mind cannot long act the role of the heart. François de la Rochefoucauld
• You cannot find your soul with your mind, you must use your heart. Gary Zukav
• The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. William Hazlitt
• The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind. Frank Lloyd Wright
• The heart is forever making the head its fool. François de la Rochefoucauld
• Enlightenment is the journey back from the head to the heart. Ravi Shankar
• For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he. Proverbs 23:7
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Listen to your heart for a sense of what’s right 

• What’s right for most people in most situations isn’t right for everyone in every situation. Real morality lies in following one’s own heart. Embeth Davidtz
• Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You’ll be criticized anyway. Eleanor Roosevelt
• Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy. Buddha
• A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right. Vanna Bonta
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The most beautiful things must be felt with the heart 

• The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
• There’s nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart. Cynthia Hand
• There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. K. Chesterton
• Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. Kahlil Gibran  
• Only from the heart can you touch the sky. Rumi
• Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come. Chinese proverb
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Feel from the heart 

• Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more. Osho
• In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain. George Szell
• Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. Albert Einstein
• If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. Anna Quindlen

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Love from the heart

• If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. George MacDonald
• The heart generates the largest electromagnetic field in the body… The electrical field is about 60 times greater in amplitude than brain waves. The magnetic component of the heart’s field, which is around 100 times stronger than that produced by the brain … can be measured several feet away from the body. Rollin McCraty, Ph.D.
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Expressing your feelings is a great ease to the heart 

• To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man’s heart. Francesco Guicciardini
• It’s not that I have stopped feeling, it’s just that I have stopped expressing. And that causes more pain to the heart and more suffering to the soul. Because the feelings unexpressed, the words unspoken and the prayers unheard are much more heart rending than the physical or mental distress.  Shalini Govil
• The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters. Thomas Jefferson

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Speak from the heart … 

• Be sure of your heart before you speak. Lisa Mangum
• What the heart thinks, the tongue speaks. Romanian Proverb
• How can a heart suffer your deepest thoughts and yet only speak the unmoving, inconsequential utterances of abject silence? Anne Austin
• Being vulnerable doesn’t have to be threatening. Just have the courage to be sincere, open and honest. This opens the door to deeper communication all around. It creates self- empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want in life. Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us. These secrets are what make us sick or fearful. Speaking truth helps you get clarity on your real heart directives. Sara Paddison  
• One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter. James Earl Jones
• The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. Benjamin Franklin
• Your heart knows not how to lie. It is great that it lays deep in your chest and not in your mouth.   Kak Sri
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… but leave some treasures left hidden 

• The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, whose charms were broken if revealed. Charlotte Bronte
• There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them. Greta Garbo

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Create from the heart 

• Trust the process of the subtle push toward art and creative expression from inside you – it is the gentle call of your heart and renewed search for soul. It is an opening to expansion of your expressive abilities and the discovery of hidden limitations ready to be challenged. Be open to what it means, it has many possibilities for action in every part of your life. Ultimately it will lead to significant personal changes – to living life in a new way with new tools of creative expression. Donald William Mathews
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Explore the heart 

• The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. Julien Green
• “I’ve been through all this before,” he says to his heart. “Yes, you have been through all this before,” replies his heart.  “But you have never been beyond it.”  Paulo Coelho
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Remain young at heart

• The heart never becomes wrinkled. Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
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Open your heart … 

• To hide the key to your heart is to risk forgetting where you placed it. Timothy Childers
• If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. Pema Chodron
• Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There’s a light inside of you. Judith Jamison
• To live with an open heart means that pain is no stranger, but wonder will be a constant companion. David Oldfield
• Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out. Rumi
• The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. Deepak
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… especially with kindness 

• A good exercise for the heart is bending down and helping someone to get up. Proverb
• You must also exercise your heart: Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness. Seneca
• A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. Washington Irving 
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Get into the heart of others 

• To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart. Macneile Dixon
• Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which transports us into the soul and heart of another person. Fritz William

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Win hearts 

• You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you. Merle Shain
• Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings. Lord Chesterfield

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Soften the heart

• I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile. Goldie Hawn

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Give from the heart

• The heart that gives, gathers. Marianne Moor
• Giving,  Generosity

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Get in touch with the sorrow in your heart 

• When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.  Khalil Gibran
• Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either. Golda Meir  
• If there be a hell upon earth it is to be found in a melancholy man’s heart. Robert Burton
• Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it. Albert Smith
• My heart hurts, that means I’m alive. Kazuya Minekura
• Sadness,  Grief

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The heart is made to be broken 

• It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise. Sara Teasdale
• I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too.   Missy Altijd
• Your heart literally hurts when it’s breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking. Alison McGhee
• The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart. Jacqueline Carey
• The heart was made to be broken. Oscar Wilde
• The heart is the only broken instrument that works. E. Kalem
• Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, don’t put up with those who are reckless with yours. Mary Schmich
• Heartbreak

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A light heart is good for you 

• A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. Proverbs 17:22
• A light heart lives long. William Shakespeare

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Spiritual awakening through the heart

• The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart. Alan Redpath
• Enlightenment is the journey back from the head to the heart. Ravi Shankar
• Walk the sacred journey from your head to your heart.
• You must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God. Elizabeth Gilbert
• Become present in your heart rather than remain distracted in your mind.
• Awakening,  Awaken to who you really are

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The heart is a mystery

• The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own. Willa Sibert Cather
• The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image. Charles W. Chesnutt
• The logic of the heart is absurd. Julie de Lespinasse
• A heart has problems which mind cannot understand. Santosh Kalwar
• Mystery

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Music is the literature of the heart 

• Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. Alphonse de Lamartine
• Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. Pablo Casals
• In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain. George Szell
• Music

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• You may have a heart of gold, but so does a hard-boiled egg.
• A bleeding heart can be hell on the carpeting. David Gerrold
• A brain of feathers and a heart of lead. Alexander Pope
• A kind heart is of little value in chess. La Rochefoucauld’s Law
• A person has to have a warm heart and a cold beer.
• Abstinence makes the heart go wander. Norman Whetzel
• Any woman who thinks the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach is aiming about 10 inches too high. Adrienne Gusoff
• Anybody who believes that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach flunked geography. Robert Byrne
• Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart. and cannot make a good soup. Ludwig van Beethoven
• At my age an affair of the heart is a bypass! Joan Rivers
• I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head. Theodore Roosevelt
• Can officially confirm that the way to a man’s heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him. Helen Fielding
• Don’t waste time trying to break a man’s heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place. Helen Rowland
• Don’t worry about your heart; it will last you as long as you live. C. Fields
• England; the heart of a rabbit in the body of a lion. Eugene Deschamps
• Except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did. Robert Benchley
• Fine guys open my eyes, smart guys open my mind but only a sweet guy can open my heart
• Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.  William Arthur Ward
• Friend: Someone who hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.  
• Friend: A good friend is like a good bra; hard to find, supportive, comfortable and always close to your heart.
• He has a heart of gold; only harder. Dorothy Parker
• Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. The Wizard of Oz
• I believe that every human has a finite amount of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. Neil Armstrong
• I don’t think my wife likes me very much – when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance. Frank Carson
• I Gave Her My Heart And A Diamond And She Clubbed Me With A Spade
• I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my shelf. Robert Bloch
• I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head. Theodore Roosevelt
• I was so excited my heart about fell out of my stomach!
• I wear my heart on my sleeve. I wear my liver on my pant leg. Rod Schmidt
• If I ever need a heart transplant. I want his [Bobby Knight’s] it’s never been used.   George Raveling
• If I ever need a heart transplant, I’d want my ex’s. It’s never been used.
• If you’ve got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow. Colson’s Law
• It is said that, a way to a man’s heart goes through a stomach. Aha…you might think that men go to their lovers to eat some soup.
• Love – a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.
• Marriage is like a deck of cards. All you need in the beginning is two hearts and a diamond. After 10 years you need a club and spade.
• Mouth: In man the gateway to the soul; in woman the outlet of the heart. Ambrose Bierce
• Never break someone’s heart because they have only one inside…break their bones because they have 206 of them.
• Not only did he break my heart and wreck my life, but he spoiled my entire evening.
• Once a woman has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her body. John Vanbrugh
• Only time can heal your broken heart just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs. Miss Piggy
• She needs open-heart surgery and they should go in through her feet. Julie Andrews
• Thanks for ripping my heart out. After the initial pain of removal subdued, I noticed that it got a chance to breathe new air. Now that I took it back and placed it back in, it works better than ever. — ahhhhh Luther Lotz
• The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The head never rules the heart but just becomes it’s partner in crime. Mignon McLaughlin
• The quickest way to a man’s heart is through his chest. Roseanne Barr
• The quickest way to a man’s heart really is through his stomach because then you don’t have to chop through that pesky rib cage. Jeph Jacques
• The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades. Demetri Martin
• There are two tragedies in life; one is not to get your heart’s desire the other is to get it. George Bernard Shaw
• There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest. Arthur  …Bugs’ Baer
• There’s a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart. Melanie Griffith
• Things that lovely can tear my heart in two – moonlight on still pools, You.
• Two things are bad for the heart – running upstairs and running down people. Bernard M. Baruch
• What do you mean heart attack? You’ve got to have a heart before you can have an attack.   Billy Wilder
• When Charlie Finley had his heart operation it took eight hours; seven just to find his heart. Steve McCatty
• When people say… You’re breaking my heart’ they do in fact usually mean that you’re breaking their genitals. Jeffrey Bernard
• Why is lettuce the most loving vegetable? Because it’s all heart.
• You should listen to your heart and not the voices in your head. Marge Simpson
• Young at Heart – Slightly Older in Other Places Bumper sticker
• Young love is two hearts with only one thing in mind.

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