HeartQuotes from October, 2002

Martha Washington
I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
At the deepest level, it's real love and care that people crave. Give those things, and you'll receive them. Through your caring deeds and actions, you'll truly make your mark on the world.

Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to Coherence
Presence is a rare quality in a world of 20-second sound bites, nonstop stimulation, and gnawing anxiety. What underlies presence? Clearly, it is not intellectual prowess or Mensa would rule the world. More than once we all have been bored to tears by the intellectual aloofness of someone disconnected from everyday reality, adrift in a conceptual universe of his or her own creation...Could presence be heart-generated coherence in the world of personal magnetics? People with presence have an ineffable quality about them; they are "present," surprisingly attentive, and undistracted. A fullness, a centeredness, a wholeness radiates from them. We enjoy being "in their presence." You can build presence. It is the natural radiance of heart security.

Howard Schultz, CEO Starbucks Coffee, Pour Your Heart Into It
Care more than others think wise.
Risk more than others think safe.
Dream more than others think practical.
Expect more than others think possible.

Sir Winston Churchill
Everyone stumbles over the truth from time to time, but most people pick themselves up and hurry off as though nothing ever happened.

Marie Curie
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
Look at life as an energy economy game. Each day, ask yourself, "Are my energy expenditures (actions, reactions, thoughts, and feelings) productive or nonproductive? During the course of my day, have I accumulated more stress or more peace?

William James
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.Mahatma Gandhi As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world — that is the myth of the atomic age — as in being able to remake ourselves.

Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to Coherence
Intelligence capacity is diminished when frustration, anxiety or inner turmoil operate. Such emotional states cause incoherence in the rhythmic and electrical output of the heart, diminishing neurological efficiency. It's one of the reasons smart people can do stupid things. When you make internal coherence a daily priority, you save time and energy. Internal coherence "oils" your system. Without oil in an engine, it burns up. So can you.

Roberta Sage Hamilton
In our deepest moments of struggle, frustration, fear, and confusion, we are being called upon to reach in and touch our hearts. Then, we will know what to do, what to say, how to be. What is right is always in our deepest heart of hearts. It is from the deepest part of our hearts that we are capable of reaching out and touching another human being. It is, after all, one heart touching another heart.

Goethe
If each of us sweeps in front of our own steps, the whole world would be clean.

Victor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.

Doc Childre
Managing our emotions increases intuition and clarity. It helps us self-regulate our brain chemicals and internal hormones. It gives us natural highs, the real fountain of youth we've been searching for. It enables us to drink from elixirs locked within our cells, just waiting for us to discover them.

Albert Einstein
The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
Creating a joint venture between head and heart puts a power pack behind your goals. Getting your head in sync with your heart and harnessing the power of coherence gives you the energy efficiency you need to achieve changes that haven't been possible before. The head can notice what things need to change, but the heart provides the power and direction to actually bring about the changes....

Mother Teresa
It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters.

Doc Childre, Self Empowerment: The Heart Approach to Stress Management
It would startle most companies to have a computer readout weekly, showing the amount of work-time their people spent thinking and emoting over their problems. Then, if you had another computer readout showing the amount of negative hormones released into the body as a result of those thinking habits, and the health consequences, in the name of smart business you would want your people to make some mental and emotional adjustments. Computers can't generate all that data yet, so we don't have to face the facts. Yet, the facts of stress find us — anyhow.

Theodore Rubin
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.