Heart Quotes by Terry Tempest Williams

20 Heart quotes by Terry Tempest Williams

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Terry Tempest Williams weaves twenty heart‑centered thoughts with a deep respect for the natural world. Her words echo the pulse of the earth, inviting readers to feel the intimate bond between personal feeling and the wider landscape.

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The human heart is the first home of democracy,

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The heart is the path to wisdom because it dares to be vulnerable in the presence of power

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At the heart of Mormonism is a high regard for community. That is its strength. I have great respect for that.

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When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.

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“Her body was rounded like earth. Stories. Breath. . . . Her eyes have been painted closed. I understand. To tell a…

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I take a deep breath and sidestep my fear and begin speaking from the place where beauty and bravery meet--within the chambers…

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The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman…

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The time had come to protest with the heart, that to deny one's genealogy with the earth was to commit treason against…

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I think my heart breaks daily living in Salt Lake City, Utah. But I still love it. And that is the richness,…

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...if we allow ourselves contemplative time in nature-whether it's gardening, going for a walk with the dog, or being in the heart…

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I will never be able to say what is in my heart because words fail us, because it is in our nature…

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To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to…

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“She is reading Zen, Krishnamurti, and Jung, asking herself questions she has never had the courage to explore. Suddenly, the shackles which…

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I don't think there is anything as powerful as an active heart. They do not fear the wisdom of emotion, but embody…

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Thomas Berry calls the Ecozoic Era, a time when we recognize the imperative of caring for the planet as a means of…

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I pray to the birds. I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward.…

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My heart breaks living in southern Utah on the edge of America's Redrock Wilderness, witnessing what the Bush Administration's policies regarding oil…

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If we are at all sensitive to the life around us, to one another's pains and joys, to the beauty and fragility…

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“The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions. Can we be equitable? Can we…

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How do we take our anger and transform it into sacred rage? How do we create a language that opens the heart…

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Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

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I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories…

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I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we."…

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“I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts... I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like…

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“I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create red in a world that often appears black and…

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Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind.

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I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where we have…

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The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to…

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I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.

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Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental,…

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“I believe we must do things in our lives for the right reasons, because we enjoy doing them, with no expectation of getting something…

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