Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ram Dass

My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got.

Ram Dass

Look at the people you don't love and see them as an exercise for you to open your heart.

Ram Dass

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

Ram Dass

I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering.

Ram Dass

When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God.

Ram Dass

When you are in the presence of unconditional love, that is the optimum environment for your heart to open, because you feel safe, because you realize nobody wants anything from you. The minute that heart opens, you are once again letting in the flow. And that flow is where you experience God.

Ram Dass

Watch how your mind judges. Judgment comes, in part, out of your own fear. You judge other people because you’re not comfortable in your own being. By judging, you find out where you stand in relation to other people. The judging mind is very divisive. It separates. Separation closes your heart. If you close your heart to someone, you are perpetuating your suffering and theirs. Shifting out of judgment means learning to appreciate your predicament and their predicament with an open heart instead of judging. Then you can allow yourself and others to just be, without separation...

We wouldn't be where we are today without Buzz. He put his heart and soul into this team.

Tupac Shakur

When my Heart Can Beat No More I hope die for a principal or a belief that I have lived for

William Shakespeare

Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth.

William Shakespeare

Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts?

William Shakespeare

It is not, nor it cannot, come to good, But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.

William Shakespeare

A miracle. Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee, but by this light I take thee for pity. Beatrice: I would not deny you, but by this good day, I yield upon great persuasion, and partly to save your life, for I was told you were in a consumption. Benedick: Peace. I will stop your mouth.

William Shakespeare

Look, how this ring encompasseth thy finger, Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart; Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.

Arthur C. Clarke

Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?

David Letterman

While I was gone, I had quintuple bypass surgery on my heart. Plus, I got a haircut.

David Gilmour

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.

David Gemmell

Love is a mystery. We embrace it where we can. Mostly we do not choose whom we love. It just happens. A voice speaks to us, in ways the ears cannot hear. We recognize a beauty the eye does not see. We experience a change in our hearts that no voice can describe.

David Gemmell

Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.

David Jeremiah

If we ask God for a calm, thankful heart that sees all the blessings His grace imparts, He can teach us many lessons in illness that can never be learned in health.

David Jeremiah

Our impulses toward instant gratification aren't to be trusted. Hoarding our resources isn't a worthy goal. We're created with eternity in our hearts, and our lives have everlasting value.

David Jeremiah

Head knowledge without heart knowledge is worse than useless; but when head and heart join forces, it changes our lives forever.

David Jeremiah

The Holy Spirit can’t remind you of something you never read which is why it’s important to memorize scripture. When you have Bible verses inscribed in your mind, you’re carrying a concealed weapon to use against the enemy in battle. Find a passage today and begin laying up His words in your heart and in doing so you will be prepared for any trials that will come.

David Jeremiah

Only a relationship with Christ can satisfy our hearts. Without Him we have nothing. With Him we have all things to enjoy.

David Eddings

All I knew was that I would die if he sent me away. He shrugged. You can cut a man’s heart out with a shrug, did you know that?

David Berg

In Heaven, you're going to get just about whatever you want. Heaven's the place where all your heart's desires will be fulfilled - if they're good ones. Put in your order now!

David Beckham

I left United, but my Heart didn't

Dave Van Ronk

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

Dave Sitek

There are so many people in the world with so many different perspectives. But ultimately, at the heart of it, they're people.

David A. Bednar

Our sincere desire should be to have both clean hands and a pure heart - both a remission of sins from day to day and to walk guiltless before God.

David A. Bednar

Heartfelt and willing obedience invites the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost.

David A. Bednar

The issue is not going to church; rather, the issue is worshipping and renewing covenants as we attend church. The issue is not going to or through the temple; rather, the issue is having in our hearts the spirit, the covenants, and the ordinances of the Lord's house. The issue is not going on a mission; rather, the issue is becoming a missionary and serving throughout our entire life with all of our heart, might, mind, and strength.

Dave Grohl

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do. It's not about being perfect, it's not about sounding absolutely correct, it's not about what goes on in a computer. It's about what goes on in here [your heart] and what goes on in here [your head].