Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two.
-Shannon L. Alder
Quotations
Heart
The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.
-Amit Abraham
Sometimes, the only soul that can mend a broken heart is the one that broke it. For they are the ones holding all the pieces.
-Patti Roberts
"The Angels Are Here"
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing
-Blaise Pascal
The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child
-Ralph Waldo Emerson "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.
-Catherynne M. Valente
"The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making"
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"
Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.
-Philip Reeve
When you hate somebody...
you give him a chance at mastering your heart.
-Toba Beta
"Master of Stupidity"
Hearts live by being wounded.
-Oscar Wilde
