The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
-Khalil Gibran
Quotations
Heart
We need such a heart that is serious like the sea and generous like the sky.
-Swami Vivekananda
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"
He who nurtures benevolence for all creatures with in his heart overcomes all difficulties and will be the recipient of all types of riches at every step.
-Chanakya "Chanakya Niti"
Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
He who loves me is made pure; his heart melts in joy. He rises to transcendental consciousness by the rousing of his higher emotional nature. Tears of joy flow from his eyes, his hair stands on end, his heart melts in love. The bliss in that state is so intense that, forgetful of himself and his surroundings, he sometimes weeps profusely, or laughs, or sings, or dances; such a devotee is a purifying influence upon the whole universe.
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Srimad Bhagavatam 11.8"
The language of the heart is the only language that everybody can understand.
-Sri Chinmoy
"Sri Chinmoy's Heart Garden: A Book of Aphorisms for Joy and Inspiration"
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing
-Blaise Pascal
When our hearts are empty, we embrace the things, thoughts and people.
-J. Krishnamurti
Meditating on the lotus of your heart, in the centre is the untainted, the exquisitely pure, clear and sorrowless, the inconceivable, the unmanifest, of infinite form, blissful, tranquil, immortal, the womb of Brahma.
- Upanishads "Kaivalyopanishad"
