Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Straub

You'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart.

Peter Travers

Amy Adams is the wish your heart makes…she’s wicked good.

Peter Tosh

If the music does not penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind, and the body... Then you ain't gon' feel it.

Peter Kreeft

Trying to fill the God-sized hole in our hearts with things other than God is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles.

Peter Kreeft

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

Peter Kreeft

We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal.

Peter Gabriel

I get lost, sometimes. Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.

Peter Gabriel

At the heart, it is world music that I do. It's all connections. Ultimately, we're all connected.

Pele

I don't think I'm a very good businessman. I act too much with my heart.

Pele

The head talks to the heart and the heart talks to the feet.

Pema Chodron

The most complete and true happiness comes in moments when you feel right there, completely present, with no ideas about good and bad, right and wrong - just a sense of open heart and open mind.

Pema Chodron

We can stop thinking that good practice is when it’s smooth and calm, and bad practice is when it’s rough and dark. If we can hold it all in our hearts, then we can make a proper cup of tea.

Pema Chodron

Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself.

Pema Chodron

Whole-heartedn ess is a precious gift, but no one can actually give it to you. You have to find the path that has heart and then walk it impeccably....It' s like someone laughing in your ear, challenging you to figure out what to do when you don't know what to do. It humbles you. It opens your heart.

Pema Chodron

In tonglen practice, when we see or feel suffering, we  breathe in with the notion of completely feeling it, accepting it, and owning it. Then we breathe out, radiating compassion, lovingkindness, freshness - anything that encourages relaxation and openness.  So you're training in softening, rather than tightening, your heart. In this practice, it's not uncommon to find yourself blocked, because you come face to face with your own fear, resistance, or whatever your personal "stuckness" happens to be at that moment.

Pema Chodron

I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person or situation that's right in front of you, and you miss so much.

Pema Chodron

Next, feel your heart, literally placing your hand on your chest if you find that helpful. This is a way of accepting yourself just as you are in that moment, a way of saying, "This is my experience right now, and it's okay." Then go into the next moment without any agenda.

Pema Chodron

Softening what is rigid in our hearts...

Pema Chodron

The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always.

Pema Chodron

Remember that this is not something we do just once or twice. Interrupting our destructive habits and awakening our heart is the work of a lifetime.

Pema Chodron

Feel the wounded heart that's underneath the addiction, self-loathing, or anger.

Pema Chodron

The most heartbreaking thing of all is how we cheat ourselves of the present moment.

Pema Chodron

Unconditional good heart toward others is not even a possibility unless we attend to our own demons.

Pema Chodron

If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.

Pema Chodron

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.

Pema Chodron

The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see it and lean in. Instead of blaming our discomfort on outer circumstances or on our own weakness, we can choose to stay present and awake to our experience, not rejecting it, not grasping it, not buying the stories that we relentlessly tell ourselves. This is priceless advice that addresses the true cause of suffering—yours, mine, and that of all living beings.

Phil Bredesen

The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.

Phil Gramm

You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession.

Phil Anselmo

We, PANTERA, had the greatest, the most intense, dedicated fans I've ever seen in my ******* life. And I really hope with all my heart that one day, people - especially our fans and my friends - can see clearly enough to think for themselves and really realize that I have nothing but love for them. I've just been going through personal hell since December. Once again, it's very hard to talk about, man. You know, my heart is in a thousand pieces a day.

Phil Collins

Things happen, but things happen and you follow... your heart is too dramatic, but you follow.

Phil Collins

Find a way to my heart, and I will always be with you.

Peter S. Beagle

The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart.

Peter S. Beagle

The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover.