Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

In this world, you've a soul for a compass and a heart for a pair of wings.

Marty Stuart

There's the chart -- and there's the heart. And it's great when they both line up. But you better follow your heart, 'cause that's where it's at.

Martin Buber

The beating heart of the universe is holy joy.

Martin Buber

You should carefully observe the way toward which your heart draws you, then choose this way with all your strength.

Martin Amis

You know how it is when two souls meet in a burst of ecstatic volubility, with hearts tickling to hear and to tell, to know everything, to reveal everything, the shared reverence for the other's otherness, a feeling of solitude radiantly snapped by full *contact* - all that?

Martin Amis

Your heart becomes gangrenous in your body when you go against your talent.

Pope Benedict XVI

This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, brings joy to the human heart, and is that precious fruit which resists the erosion of time, which unites generations and enables them to be one in admiration. And all this through the work of your hands . . . Remember that you are the custodians of beauty in the world.

Pope Benedict XVI

God's heart calls to our hearts, inviting us to come out of ourselves, to forsake our human certainties, to trust in him and, by following his example, to make ourselves a gift of unbounded love.

Pope Benedict XVI

Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart.

Pope Benedict XVI

God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.

Pope Benedict XVI

If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of authentic happiness.

Pope John Paul II

Eucharistic worship is not so much worship of the inaccessible transcendence as worship of the divine condescension, and it is also the merciful and redeeming transformation of the world in the human heart

Pope John Paul II

How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people.

Pope John Paul II

Hands are the heart's landscape.

Pope John Paul II

Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.

Pope John Paul II

The Lord has given you a heart open to great horizons; do not be afraid to commit your life completely to the service of Christ and His Gospel! Listen to Him as He says again today: 'The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.

Pope John Paul II

Open your minds and hearts to the beauty of all that God has made and to His special, personal love for each one of you.

Pope John Paul II

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.

Pope John Paul II

Take heart young people! Christ is calling you and the world awaits you! Remember the Kingdom of God needs your generous and complete dedication.

Pope John Paul II

The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.

Pina Bausch

Everything must come from the heart, must be lived.

Pietro Metastasio

Sharp and fell remorse, the offspring of my sin! Why do you, O God, lacerate my heart so late? Why, O boding cries, that scream so close to me,--why do I listen to you now, and never heard you before?

Pindar

Of the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is a joy beyond all things else.