Famous Quotes & Sayings

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Within my heart is the lamp of love, And that is day!

Paule Marshall

Once a great wrong has been done, it never dies. People speak the words of peace, but their hearts do not forgive. Generations perform ceremonies of reconciliation but there is no end.

Paullina Simons

Tatiana said. "Go on with Dasha. She is right for you. She is a woman and I'm-" "Blind!", Alexander exclaimed. Tatiana stood, desolately failing in the battle of her heart. "Oh, Alexander. What do you want from me..." "Everything", he whispered fiercely.

Paullina Simons

You are my hand grenade, my artillery fire. You have replaced my heart with yourself.

Paullina Simons

Alexander, you broke my heart. But for carrying me on your back, for pulling my dying sled, for giving me your last bread, for the body you destroyed for me, for the son you have given me, for the twenty-nine days we lived like Red Birds of Paradise, for all our Naples sands and Napa wines, for all the days you have been my first and last breath, for Orbeli- I will forgive you.

Paullina Simons

Please stop looking at me, she thought, afraid of his eyes and terrified of her own heart.

Paullina Simons

Not bombs nor my broken heart can take away from me walking barefoot with you in jasmine June through the Field of Mars.

Paul Valery

His heart is a desert island.... The whole scope, the whole energy of his mind surround and protect him; his depths isolate him and guard him against the truth. He flatters himself that he is entirely alone there.... Patience, dear lady. Perhaps, one day, he will discover some footprint on the sand.... What holy and happy terror, what salutary fright, once he recognizes in that pure sign of grace that his island is mysteriously inhabited!...

Paul Twitchell

So I tell you, my son, that the secret of true happiness is for him who asks nothing in return. The perfectly unselfish man is the one who finds his glory in God. Give what you have to give, and it will come back to you. All materials to build thy home in this world or the inner cosmic worlds come from within, from the God center in thy heart.

Paul Strand

The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow of life, but it also comes from the mind and the heart of the artist. The photograph is his vision of the world and expresses, however subtly, his values and convictions.

Paul Westerberg

Stick with your heart and you'll be fine.

Mel Gibson

What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said.

Meher Baba

I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.

Meher Baba

Divine love makes us true to ourselves and to others... Divine love is the solution to our difficulties and problems. It frees us from every kind of binding. It makes us speak truly, think truly, and act truly. It makes us feel one with the whole universe. Divine love purifies our hearts and glorifies our being.

Meher Baba

If you are convinced of God's existence then it rests with you to seek Him, to see Him and to realize Him. Do not search for God outside of you. God can only be found within you, for His only abode is the heart.

Mel Brooks

Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.

Mel Brooks

Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even go through his mind on its way to the page.

You need seek God neither below or above.He is no farther away than the door of the heart.

A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is submerged in the loving will of God.

I need to be silent for awhile, worlds are forming in my heart.

For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.

God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each.

Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.

God wants nothing from you but the gift of a peaceful heart.

Mary Morrissey

To learn to live from the heart it doesn't just change our feeling about life, it actually changes our life.

Mary Pickford

I think Oscar Wilde wrote a poem about a robin who loved a white rose. He loved it so much that he pierced his breast and let his heart's blood turn the white rose red. Maybe this sounds very sentimental, but for anybody who has loved a career as much as I've loved mine, there can be no short cuts.

Mary Oliver

But how did you come burning down like a wild needle, knowing just where my heart was?

Mary Oliver

Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.

Mary Oliver

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness.

Mary Oliver

It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.

Mary Oliver

Wild sings the bird of the heart in the forests of our lives.

Mary Doria Russell

God's got a lot of explaining to do. Of course, God never explains. When life breaks your heart, you're just supposed to pick up the pieces and start all over, I guess.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege.