What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people. Read Summary
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. Read Summary
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best. Read Summary
Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot. Read Summary
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. Read Summary
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts. Read Summary
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. Read Summary
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. Read Summary
Tears come from the heart and not from the brain. Read Summary
The basic function of popular music is to create an environment for courting, lovemaking, and doing the dishes. It's useful because it addresses the heart in the midst of all these activities, and it will always be useful in this very important way. Read Summary
When we sit at the table, there is more going on than satisfying hunger. It is sad to think of those who eat simply to satisfy their hunger and who do not permit themselves to linger under the many spells offered by a good meal - the satisfaction of our hearts, our minds and our spirits. Read Summary
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom? Read Summary
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. Read Summary
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. Read Summary
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. Read Summary
True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind. Read Summary
I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that's what I'm going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done. Read Summary
Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that. Read Summary
I saw that giving even all my life to God (supposing it possible to do this and go no further) would profit me nothing unless I gave my heart, yea, all my heart, to Him. Read Summary
I know that I had not faith, unless the faith of a devil, the faith of Judas, that speculative, notional, airy shadow, which lives in the head, not in the heart. But what is this to the living, justifying faith, the faith that cleanses from sin? Read Summary