Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two.
-Shannon L. Alder
Quotations
Heart
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
-Khalil Gibran
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
Within the lotus of the heart He dwells, where nerves meet like spokes of a wheel at its hub. Meditate on Him as Aum, Easily may you cross the sea of darkness.
-Mundaka Upanishad "Mundaka Upanishad"
When you chant the Name, it actually moves through your whole being - purifying you, bestowing grace, and making you sacred…Chanting breaks down the barriers between you and your own heart.
-A Spiritual Leader "Gurumayi Chidvilasananda"
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"
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing
-Blaise Pascal
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"
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
-Khalil Gibran
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
