Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dalai Lama

Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.

Dalai Lama

A simple smile. That's the start of opening your heart and being compassionate to others.

Dalai Lama

Great changes start with individuals; the basis of world peace is inner peace in the hearts of individuals.

Dalai Lama

The proper use of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart.

Dalai Lama

Friends, genuine friends, have much more to do with whether we have a warm heart, not money or power.

Dalai Lama

The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves. On a simple level we find that if we have a compassionate heart we naturally have more friends. And scientists today are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.

Dalai Lama

If your heart has peace, nothing can disturb you.

Ally Condie

I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.

Allyson Felix

What's really heavy on my heart is fighting physical inactivity.

Anthony Hamilton

I'm not always a heartbroken guy. I like to laugh, act silly, dance. There are so many more colors to me. I really can be fun.

Anthony Hamilton

Being a businessman, you want to invest your time and your heart into growth and a legacy, and sometimes it's about going over there and getting it. But you don't have to lose yourself.

Anthony Hamilton

I'm a mess right now I can't eat can't sleep Bills are piling high ain't worked in three weeks Ain't bathed can't shave cause my heart is so tender like living in a blender I'm shaken and I'm stirred

Anthony de Mello

If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.

Anthony de Mello

If you search within your heart, you will find something there that will make it possible for you to understand: a spark of disenchantment and discontent, which if fanned into flame will become a raging forest fire that will burn up the whole of the illusory world you are living in, thereby unveiling to your wondering eyes the kingdom that you have always lived in unsuspectingly.

Annette Funicello

My dear friend Jimmie Dodd was the heart and the soul of The Mickey Mouse Club.

Angela Johnson

Maybe his heart is searching for and not finding the place it used to live. I understand that because mine is searching and not finding too.

Amy Hempel

Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.

Alonzo Mourning

I listen to myself, I listen to my body, my mind; I follow my heart.

Alva Myrdal

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.

Anne Murray

When I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.

Anne Perry

... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

Anne Sexton

There is an animal inside me, clutching fast to my heart, a huge crab.

Anne Sexton

Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.

Anne Sexton

The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart.

Anne Sexton

My heart is on a budget. It keeps me on the brink.

Anne Sexton

When someone kisses someone or flushes the toilet it is my other who sits in a ball and cries. My other beats a tin drum in my heart. My other hangs up laundry as I try to sleep. My other cries and cries and cries when I put on a cocktail dress.

Anne Sexton

Images are probably the most important part of the poem. First of all you want to tell a story, but images are what are going to shore it up and get to the heart of the matter.

Anne Sexton

There is a good look that I wear like a blood clot. I have sewn it over my left breast. I have made a vocation of it.

Anne Sexton

It is a dead heart. It is inside of me. It is a stranger yet once it was agreeable, opening and closing like a clam.

Anne Sexton

Maybe, although my heart is a kitten of butter, I am blowing it up like a zeppelin.

Anne Sexton

Take adultery or theft. Merely sins. It is evil who dines on the soul, stretching out its long bone tongue. It is evil who tweezers my heart, picking out its atomic worms.

Anne Sexton

Do you like me?” No answer. Silence bounced, fell off his tongue and sat between us and clogged my throat. It slaughtered my trust. It tore cigarettes out of my mouth. We exchanged blind words, and I did not cry, I did not beg, but blackness filled my ears, blackness lunged in my heart, and something that had been good, a sort of kindly oxygen, turned into a gas oven.

Anne Sexton

Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.