HeartQuotes™: Quotes of the Heart
HeartQuotes from July, 2002
It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Satchel Paige
Never let the odds keep you from pursuing What you know in your heart you were meant to do.
Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to Coherence
Perception - the lens through which we view life - is at the root of how we deal with all of it. As Victor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor and author, put it so eloquently, everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Leo Tolstoy
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to Coherence
An attitude of allowing life and people to be their unpredictable selves, while maintaining a positive inner attitude that has security either way, can bring every-increasing rates of success, personally and professionally.
Mother Teresa
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman, Overcoming Emotional Chaos: Eliminate anxiety, lift depression and create security in your life
Realize that now,in this moment of time, you are creating.You are creating your next moment based on what you are feeling and thinking.That is what's real. We can let go of the unconscious belief that being anxious about the past or the future will somehow protect us and instead reprogram our cells with new ways of responding.
Robert Service
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to Coherence
Care is the glue that keeps relationships together once the novelty has worn off. This is as true in organizational life as in the personal domain.
Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart
Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what's real.
Paul Tillich
The first duty of love is to listen.
Albert Einstein
A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.
Marc Chagall
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
Phil Jackson, Sacred Hoops
Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together.
Friedrich Nietzsche
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
John Enoch Powell
When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.
Bertrand Russell
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.
Carl Jung
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.
St John of the Cross
Where there is no love, put love and you will find love.
R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience
What we think is less than what we know;
What we know is less than what we love;
What we love is so much less than what there is.
And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are.
