Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. 2.45K
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. 1.22K
Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness. 731
The happiness of one’s own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one’s own happiness, the happiness of others. 2.46K
A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. 619
For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another’s happiness. 644
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. 1.79K
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. 607
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. 578
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. 638
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. 740
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. 2.53K
