Peace Quote by Dada Bhagwan

“Penance should be but the means to increase virtue according to the needs of the individual, and according to what the soul sees she…

— Catherine of Siena

The true penance comes when God takes away the soul's health and strength for doing penance. Even though I have mentioned elsewhere the great…

— Teresa of Avila

“Moral wounds have the peculiarity that they are invisible, but do not close: always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain tender…

— Alexandre Dumas

The death of the self lies in the life of the heart

— Ja'far al-Sadiq

“Someone with sharp enough eyes might see the instant where one wounded heart begins to rot while the other starts to heal.”

— Seanan McGuire

Listen carefully to the global warming alarmists, and the main theme that emerges is that what the developed world needs is a large dose…

— Bret Stephens

“The only way of touching a heart is to wound it”

— stendhal

“Internalizing pain didn’t get rid of the anguish. It only allowed it to stay locked inside the gut, in the mind, where it ate…

— Suza Kates

“In measured doses, mortification cleanses the soul. It's the perfect antidote for excessive self-regard.”

— Andrew J. Bacevich

“The human heart commits its greatest treachery by healing. It commits its greatest treachery by surviving the love that was supposed to last forever,…

— Steve Erickson

“What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic…

— Donna Tartt

“It is tragic to see how the religious sentiment of the West has become so individualized that concepts such as "a contrite heart," have…

— Henri J.M. Nouwen