I pray that he falls in love the way other people fall in love, where it’s just a gift offered by a man and a woman at about the same time, where their hearts are flying toward one another, sure and scared.
Short story: How It Floods
Every lover is in his heart a madman, and in his head a minstrel.
Book: “Stardust” by Neil Gaiman
If you have to love something, you could do worse than to give your heart to a college.
A tuna a day keeps the extremely expensive cardiologist away.
TV: Good Eats, “The Other Red Meat”
But what is the task of a grower? My Father wrote another Age, but I see that the tree is not a place, but a people — the heart of a people. That is what must grow.
Video game: Myst V: End of Ages
It’s the heart afraid of breaking, that never takes a chance.
It’s the dream afraid of waking, that never learns to dance.
It’s the one who won’t be broken, that cannot seem to give.
And the soul afraid of dying, that never learns to live.
It’s the dream afraid of waking, that never learns to dance.
It’s the one who won’t be broken, that cannot seem to give.
And the soul afraid of dying, that never learns to live.
Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering in order that they may have existence.
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up save in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless- it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
You are anything but primitive, Samantha. What your mind doesn’t know, your heart fills in.
TV: Stargate: SG-1, episode 1x16 “Enigma”
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first. When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart—pursue those.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Build the dream with all your heart and before you know it you find that the dream is in fact building you.
Cherish your vision; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes from your purest thought. If you remain true to them, your world will at last be built.