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Heart Quotes by Pema Chodron
- When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
- To stay with that shakiness-to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to get revenge-that is…
- We can begin to open our hearts to others when we have no hope of getting anything back. We just do it for its own…
- Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when we look into…
- Remember that this is not something we do just once or twice. Interrupting our destructive habits and awakening our heart is the work of a…
- If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
- When Things Fall Apart” and I quote “Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize…
- If we want there to be peace in the world, we have to be brave enough to soften what is rigid in our hearts, to…
- Next, feel your heart, literally placing your hand on your chest if you find that helpful. This is a way of accepting yourself just as…
- The next step is to learn to communicate with the people that you feel are causing your pain and misery- not to learn how to…
- So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.
- I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person…
- Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean. From the very beginning to the very end, pointing to our own hearts to discover…
- Unconditional good heart toward others is not even a possibility unless we attend to our own demons.
- Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with an…
- Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself.
- Meditation accepts us just as we are-in both our tantrums and our bad habits, in our love and commitments and happiness. It allows us to…
- Hold the sadness and pain of samsara [suffering, confusion] in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern…
- Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We are cheating ourselves…
- Softening what is rigid in our hearts...
- If it's painful, you become willing not just to endure it but also to let it awaken your heart and soften you. You learn to…
- We can put our whole heart into whatever we do; but if we freeze our attitude into for or against, we're setting ourselves up for…
- Whole-heartedn ess is a precious gift, but no one can actually give it to you. You have to find the path that has heart and…
- The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always.
- The idea of karma is that you continually get the teaching that you need to open your heart.
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- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism. — Mary Astell
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- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it… — Margaret Atwood
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin