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Heart Quotes by Wendell Berry
- A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.
- Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear /…
- It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought…
- I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure…
- To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is…
- ...And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here.
- Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in…
- There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with…
- Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were…
- THE WILD ROSE” – BY WENDELL BERRY Sometimes, hidden from me in daily custom and in ritual I live by you unaware, as if by…
- Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like…
More Heart Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- 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
- I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's… — Rodney Atkins
- 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