Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nhat Hanh

Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart.

Nhat Hanh

Every one of us needs a home. The world needs a home. There are so many young people who are homeless. They may have a building to live in, but they are homeless in their hearts. That is why the most important practice of our time is to give each person a home.

Nhat Hanh

The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.

Nhat Hanh

Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are not disturbed inside. If you're truly silent, then no matter what situation you find yourself in you can enjoy the silence.

Noah Munck

I have a huge heart for Haiti and will tell the world how we can help!

Noah Webster

Knowledge, learning, talents are not necessarily connected with sound moral and political principles.... And eminent abilities, accompanied with depravity of heart, render the possessor tenfold more dangerous in a community.

Mike Pence

I have a sense of this man [Donald Trump]. I have a sense of his heart.

Mike Pence

I think Donald Trump always speaks straight from his mind and straight from his heart.

John Armstrong

Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.

John Armstrong

Then love of pleasure sways each heart, and we From that no more than from ourselves can fly. Blameless when govern'd well. But where it errs Extravagant, and wildly leads to ill, Public or private, there its curbing pow'r Cool reason must exert.

Joe Strummer

With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart.

Jodi Picoult

It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying.

Jodi Picoult

Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break.

Jodi Picoult

I had the heart of the relationship, and no body to grow it in... It broke.

Jodi Picoult

if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But when it's the heart, that's a whole different ball of wax.

Jodi Picoult

This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might never use it, but she would always feel its presence like a swelling secret stone, and that way when she let go of the rage, she would not feel nearly as empty.

Jodi Picoult

She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.

Jodi Picoult

When you don't fit in, you become superhuman. You can feel everyone else's eyes on you, stuck like Velcro. You can hear a whisper about you from a mile away. You can disappear, even when it looks like you're still standing right there. You can scream, and nobody hears a sound. You become the mutant who fell into the vat of acid, the Joker who can't remove his mask, the bionic man who's missing all his limbs and none of his heart. You are the thing that used to be normal, but that was so long ago, you can't even remember what it was like.

Jodi Picoult

As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.

Jodi Picoult

On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm sure I'm worth a lot more dead than alive - the sum of the parts equal more than the whole. I wonder who might wind up walking around with my liver, my lungs, even my eyeballs. I wonder what poor asshole would get stuck with whatever it is in me that passes for a heart.

Jodi Picoult

We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire conversation that takes place in silence, because the heart has its own language. I will remember what Eric says even though he doesn't say a word. I will tell it to her.

Jodi Picoult

Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.

Jodi Picoult

Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.

Jodi Picoult

The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were doomed.

Jodi Picoult

Here are the things I know for sure: When you think you’re right, you are most likely wrong. Things that break—be they bones, hearts, or promises—can be put back together but will never really be whole. And, in spite of what I said, you can miss a person you’ve never known. I learn this over and over again,

John Gray

Find something that feels good, that resonates with your heart.

John Gresham Machen

The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart.

John Greenleaf Whittier

All day the darkness and the cold Upon my heart have lain Like shadows on the winter sky Like frost upon the pane

John Green

I can't imagine us saying these things to each other out loud. But even if I can't imagine hearing these words, I can imagine living them. I don't even picture it. Instead I'm in it. How I feel with him here. That peace. It would be so happy, and it makes me sad because it only exists in words.

John Green

We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.

John Green

Home is Where the Heart Is, Good Friends Are Hard to Find and Impossible to Forget. True Love is Born from Hard Times.

John Green

You shall love your neighbour With your crooked heart, It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect.