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.
It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart.
It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what's going to come in. But when it does, you just have to go for it! Because if you don't, there's no point in being here.
-Kirstie Alley
The size of one’s heart is more important than the size of one’s wallet.
-Anonymous
He wasn't mine anywhere except in my heart.
-Lisa Kleypas
"Smooth Talking Stranger"
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.
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"
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
My heart does not desire what my eyes does not admire.
-Habeed Akande
