HeartQuotes from August, 2003

"...if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone."
-- Morrie Schwartz, quoted by Mitch Albom, "Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man and the Last Great Lesson", Doubleday, 1997

"Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend."
--Helen Keller

"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears."
- Glenn Clark

"The dominant force in the whole body is that guiding principle which we term mind or intellect. This is firmly lodged in the midregion of the breast. Here is the place where fear and alarm pulsate. Here is felt the caressing touch of joy. Here, then, is the seat of the intellect and the mind."
-- Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, Book III (circa 55 B.C.)

"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."
-- Zelda Fitzgerald

" The purpose of life is to increase the warm heart. Think of other people. Serve other people sincerely. No cheating…"
-- The Dalai Lama

"My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life."
-- Miles Davis, jazz great (1926 - 1991)

"Give people the latitude to be themselves. You would want someone to give that to you."
-- The Hidden Power of the Heart, Sara Paddison

"It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"
-- Henry David Thoreau

"Many people cave in to emotional drains, offering the popular excuse that " they just can't help it." It's time now that we learn both how and why to " help it" -- or at least become open to the fact that *we can.*"
-- Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution, (c) 2000, Harper SanFrancisco

" There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control."
-- Leo Buscaglia

"The choice between love and fear is made every moment in our hearts and minds. That is where the peace process begins. Without peace within, peace in the world is an empty wish. Like love, peace is extended. It cannot be brought from the world to the heart. It must be brought from each heart to another, and thus to all mankind."
--Paul Ferrini

"Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well. I am not aware of any other factor in medicine - not diet, not smoking, not exercise... not drugs, not surgery - that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness and premature death."
-- Dean Ornish, "Love and Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy"

"We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service relationship to humanity."
-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines."
--Charles Kuralt

"The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart."
--John Welwood

" If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere."
-- Frank A Clark

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7

"I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world."
-- Mahatma Gandhi