HeartQuotes™: Quotes of the Heart

Doc Childre and Sara Paddison, HeartMath Discovery Program
Put your appreciation into action by taking time to show your appreciation. Tell one or more people something you appreciate about them. Remember, what you put out comes back.

David L Cooperrider, HR.com: Interview with David Cooperrider by David W. Creelman
It could be argued that all leadership is appreciative leadership. It's the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead. It's the capacity to see the most creative and improbable opportunities in the marketplace. It's the capacity to see with an appreciative eye the true and the good, the better and the possible.

David L Cooperrider, HR.com: Interview with David Cooperrider by David W. Creelman
It could be argued that all leadership is appreciative leadership. It's the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead. It's the capacity to see the most creative and improbable opportunities in the marketplace. It's the capacity to see with an appreciative eye the true and the good, the better and the possible.

Lao Tzu
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

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."

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.

Pablo Casals
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

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.

Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
Managing your emotions is an inside job. That's why it's important to = learn techniques to make attitude adjustments. You can then direct your emotions more efficiently. Happiness comes through emotions qualified by the heart.

Daniel Goleman
What counts in making a happy relationship is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.

Ken Keyes
Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart.

Herbert Otto
We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating and adventuring. Consequently, the actualizing of our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our lifetime.

Doc Childre
Neutral is a state where you are not jumping ahead too quickly or moving too slow. Neutral does not mean being inactive, complacent or passive. It's about a calm poise that allows for new information and new possibilities to emerge before taking further action. When in neutral you actually increase your sensitivity and intuitive intelligence. Neutral is fertile ground for new possibilities to grow from.

Igor Stravinsky
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

Albert Schweitzer
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Steve Allen
One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.