How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?
-Jodi Picoult
"Mercy"
Quotations
Heart
The human heart operates from two premises: I Am Responsible and Only Love Works.
-Swami Dhyan Giten
"The Silent Whisperings of the Heart - An Introduction to Giten's Approach to Life"
Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
-Samuel Lover
I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
-E. B. White
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
-Nelson Mandela
When our hearts are empty, we embrace the things, thoughts and people.
-J. Krishnamurti
We can use our precious and passing moments to nourish and enrich our hearts by loving ourselves and all living beings... not the New Year day alone but may every throb of our life be a moment of loving happiness.
-Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanu "Chitrabhanu"
The heart is an organ of fire.
-Michael Ondaatje
"The English Patient"
Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people’s hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human ‘brain’ with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human ‘heart’ with compassion.
-Dalai Lama Xiv "The XIV Dalai Lama"
Every person has both a bad heart and good heart. No matter how good a man seems, he has some evil. No matter how bad a man seems, there is some good about him. No man is perfect
-Proverbs "Mohawk Tradition"
