For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow and groans on seeing another's happiness.
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart live for it die for it and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated enriched heart.
Endurance is the crowning quality And patience all the passion of great hearts.
The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart given surnames and Christian names and sent to walk the earth.
The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians is to guard against all appearance of evil to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil and to have a guard upon our actions that they may not be sinful or so much as seem to be so.
What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out.
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling the movements of his heart.
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
Out of Ireland have we come great hatred little room maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work a great head.
Life is made up not of great sacrifices or duties but of little things in which smiles and kindness and small obligations given habitually are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.
There may be a great fire in our hearts yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
Whatever I have tried to do in life I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope Self.
There never was any heart truly great and generous that was not also tender and compassionate.
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers but for powers equal to our tasks to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it.