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.
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"
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
-Marc Chagall
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing
-Blaise Pascal
It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"
The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.
-Criss Jami
There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
-Cynthia Hand
"Hallowed"
Better a blush on the face than a blot on the heart.
-Miguel De Cervantes
When the heart is dry the eye is dry
-Victor Hugo
"Les Misérables"
