“I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched my hurt, and even relished it, a little, for now I could write a real death, a true loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, and I wept, in my room, alone; but while I wept, somewhere inside I smiled.” IfsWritingHeartLittlesRealHurtDarkLossRoomsSonBrokenMy HeartHappeningsDiedMy SonI Was Hurt Author:Neil Gaiman
“I've been trying to grow up some myself, in my heart, and it's happening quick and I feel good about it, and I want that to come out in the music.” WantFeelsTryingHeartGrowsGrowing UpMy HeartHappeningsFeel GoodI Feel Good Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan
“Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are there so you can break through to the eternal. Spirituality is about awakening the eyes, the ears, the heart so you can see what's always happening right in front of you.” HeartEyeSpiritualSpiritualityReligiousPrayerBreakStudyMeditationFrontsReadyDisciplineEternalHappeningsEarsAwakeningRitualRealismVowBreak ThroughSpiritual Disciplines Author:Richard Rohr
“The greatest love of all is happening to me.. So goes the popular song. It's a great song. It speaks to the heart, and deeply. It strikes powerfully to uplift the human spirit, at the quest for self-love and self-esteem, the pride in being alive that each of us is entitled to experience simply by being born a human being.” HumansHeartSelfSpiritSongSpeakBornHuman BeingsAliveSelf EsteemPrideSelf LoveHappeningsStrikesEsteemUpliftingQuestsEntitledHuman SpiritGreatest LovePopular Song Author:Robert J. White
“Black people loving and losing is something we don’t see enough of. We’re always in these heightened situations like something big is happening, something funny or something violent. And you know what? Sometimes we die of breast cancer or a broken heart. Things happen that are just not being explored cinematically. It’s time we reinvigorated that type of film.” PeopleKnowsHeartSometimesEnoughBigsHappensFilmDiesBlackSituationBrokenTypeLosingHappeningsCancerThings HappenViolentBreastsBlack PeopleLike SomethingBreast Cancer Author:Ava DuVernay
“Many people are coming to this country for economic reasons. They're coming here to work. If you can make 50 cents in the heart of Mexico, for example, or make $5 here in America, $5.15, you're going to come here if you're worth your salt, if you want to put food on the table for your families. And that's what's happening.” PeopleIfsWantHeartCountryReasonAmericaEconomicExampleHappeningsTablesOur FamilyMexicoSaltCents Author:George W. Bush
“I thanked the President [George W. Bush] for the steadfastness and resolve with which he's tackling the very complicated problems in the Middle East and Iraq, as well as the Israel-Palestinian issue.... It's critical for us in Southeast Asia that America does that.... because it affects America's standing in Asia and the world, and also the security environment in Asia because extremists, the jihadists, watch carefully what's happening in the Middle East and take heart, or lose heart, depending on what's happening.” WorldWellsHeartDoeProblemAmericaPresidentLosesWatchesIssuesEnvironmentMiddleSecurityHappeningsStandingIraqIsraelComplicatedCriticalEastResolveMiddle EastPalestinianAsiaExtremistTacklingSteadfastnessPresident George W BushSoutheast Asia Author:Lee Hsien Loong
“Once in awhile throughout the day...let go into full acceptance of the present moment, including how you are feeling and what you perceive to be happening... Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are. Then, when you're ready, move in the direction your heart tells you to go, mindfully and with resolution.” GivingHeartMomentsFeelingsMovingAcceptanceReadyLetting GoHappeningsIncludingPerceivePresent MomentResolutionPermission Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn
“One of the things that I have seen change that warms the cockles of my heart is what is happening in the cosmetics industry. For years, they were doing horrible things to animals in the manufacture of cosmetics, and testing of the most barbaric types; today, if you go into a drugstore and go down the [cosmetics] aisle, look at how many of them say no animal testing. I've talked with people who work in the cosmetics departments, and they tell me, Without that, you can't sell them. And that's wonderful!” PeopleIfsYearsLooksHeartTodayAnimalWonderfulTypeIndustryMy HeartHappeningsSellsHorribleDepartmentTestingCosmeticsAisleHorrible ThingsBarbaricAnimal TestingCockles Author:Bob Barker
“We are capable of suffering with our world, and that is the true meaning of compassion. It enables us to recognize our profound interconnectedness with all beings. Don't ever apologize for crying for the trees burning in the Amazon or over the waters polluted from mines in the Rockies. Don't apologize for the sorrow, grief, and rage you feel. It is a measure of your humanity and your maturity. It is a measure of your open heart, and as your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal. That is what is happening as we see people honestly confronting the sorrows of our time.” PeopleWorldFeelsHeartSufferingHumanityWaterRoomsGriefCompassionBreakTreeCryMinesSorrowCapableHappeningsProfoundRageHonestlyHealBurningMaturityOur TimeOur WorldApologizingAmazonHeart BreakConfrontingOpen HeartInterconnectednessTrue Meaning Author:Joanna Macy
“Life is not somewhere waiting for you, it is happening in you. It is not in the future as a goal to be arrived at, it is herenow, this very moment - in your breathing, circulating in your blood, beating in your heart. Whatsoever you are is your life, and if you start seeking meaning somewhere else, you will miss it. Man has done that for centuries.” IfsMenLifeHeartDoneMomentsLife IsWaitingGoalBloodCenturyMissingFutureHappeningsSeekingBreathingMeaning Of LifeSomewhere ElseWaiting For YouLife Means Author:Rajneesh
“Be true to your heart, and if you're passionate about your dream, work towards it but don't allow your idea of how you think it should manifest prevent what's actually unfolding from happening.” IfsThinkingShouldHeartIdeasDreamHappeningsPassionateBeing TrueYour DreamsManifestUnfolding Author:Keke Palmer
“So you can see what is happening in the New Testament. Worship is being significantly deinstitutionalized, delocalized, de-externalized. The whole thrust is being taken off of ceremony and seasons and places and forms and is being shifted to what is happening in the heart - not just on Sunday but every day and all the time in all of life.” HeartWholeFormTakenWorshipHappeningsSeasonsSundayTestamentCeremonyNew TestamentThrust Author:John Piper
“At heart, I'm really interested in this marriage of theater, film and television and I think what happened in the UK and obviously is happening here is that there's a convergence of talent kind of moving between the different disciplines and I find that very exciting.” ThinkingHeartKindDifferentFilmMovingHappenedTalentTelevisionDisciplineHappeningsExcitingTheaterFilm And TelevisionConvergence Author:Colin Callender
“Raindrops are beating, a large puddle is forming, there on the balcony. It all floats in Emptiness, in purest Transparency, with no one here to watch it. If there is an I, it is all that is arising, right now and right now and right now. My lungs are the sky; those mountains are my teeth; the clouds are my skin; the thunder is my heart beating time to the timeless; the rain itself, the tears of our collective estate, here where nothing is really happening.” IfsHeartWatchesSkyTearsMy HeartRight NowMountainHappeningsRainSkinsCloudsTeethEmptinessCollectivesEstatesTimelessThunderLungsFloatsTransparencyHeart BeatRaindropsPuddlesBalconiesHeart Beating Book:One Taste Source: One Taste
“Being silent for me doesn't require being in a quiet place and it doesnt mean not saying words. It means, "receiving in a balanced, noncombative way what is happening." With or without words, the hope of my heart is that it will be able to relax and acknowledge the truth of my situation with compassion.” WayHeartMeanAbleCompassionSituationMy HeartQuietHappeningsSilentAcknowledgeRelaxReceivingBalancedQuiet Place Author:Sylvia Boorstein
“Maybe it stems from my newspaper-reporting days, but I took notes the whole time - getting the call, how I felt. As soon as I put pen to paper, it became a story [Hunger Heart], not something happening to me but something I was recording.” HeartWholeStoriesFeltPaperHappeningsNotesHungerNewspapersPensStem Author:Jennifer Weiner
“People who came to the clinics or came to the fundraiser knew what was happening in their state but didn't realize the profundity of what was happening all over the place. But the third thing [was] that at every single clinic I went to, somebody who worked there - it could have been the doctor, it could have been the receptionist - said, "Thank you for coming, no one ever comes." And it broke my heart...I've used these services, I've had an abortion, I got to be where I am because of access to making choices to have the life I wanted.” PeopleHeartHas BeensSaidStatesWantedUsedChoicesRealizingMy HeartHappeningsDoctorsThirdsAccessBrokeAbortionCould Have BeenClinicMaking ChoicesProfundityBroke My HeartFundraiserReceptionistsThank You For Coming Author:Lizz Winstead
“When I watch that attachment happening, I see the beliefs that I have around it. If somebody's not paying attention to me in a certain way, in my mind, it means they don't love me or they don't respect me. Bringing awareness to the beliefs that are underneath the attachment and bringing awareness to the way my body and heart are tightening, helps me wake up and re-inhabit a larger space of being. Holding on and pushing away might be going on but I'm freer to respond in a healthy way.” IfsWayMindHeartMeanHelpingBodyMightCertainBeliefSpaceAttentionWatchesAwarenessHealthyHappeningsWake UpPay AttentionHelp MePushingAttachmentHolding OnRespect MePushing Away Author:Tara Brach
“Germany has become the economic heart of Europe because our leaders are weak. But Germany should never forget that France is Europe's political heart. What is happening here today foreshadows what will happen in the rest of Europe in the coming years: the great return of the nation-state, which they wanted to obliterate.” ShouldYearsHeartStatesHappensTodayWantedPoliticalNationsForgetLeaderEconomicReturnHappeningsEuropeWeakFranceGermanyNever Forget Author:Marine Le Pen
“Oh, I can see it happening, age after age, and growing worse the more you reveal your beauty: the son turning his back on the mother and the bride on her groom, stolen away by this everlasting calling, calling, calling of the gods. Taken where we can't follow. It would be far better for us if you were foul and ravening. We'd rather you drank their blood than stole their hearts. We'd rather they were ours and dead than yours and made immortal.” IfsHeartMadeI CanWould BeAgeMotherTakenGrowingBloodSonCallingHappeningsImmortalEverlastingStolenDrankBridesFoul Author:C. S. Lewis
“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.” KnowsNeedsHeartMomentsFaithChallengesCouragePossibilityHappeningsEmbraceMoving OnPresent MomentHope And Faith Book:Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander Source: Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
“Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor.” WorldHeartMeanHandsFacesJesusPoorSeeingHappeningsSeekingAppearanceBreadContemplationDisguiseContemplativeDistressing Author:Mother Teresa
“You never know the biggest day of your life is your biggest day, not until it’s happening. You don’t recognize the biggest day of your life, not until you’re right in the middle of it. The day you commit to something or someone. The day you get your heart broken. The day you meet your soul mate. The day you realize there’s not enough time because you wanna live forever. Those are the biggest days. The perfect days.” KnowsHeartSoulEnoughLife IsRealizingPerfectForeverMiddleBrokenHappeningsCommitYour SoulMatesEnough TimeLive ForeverSoul MatePerfect DaysNot Enough Time Author:Shonda Rhimes
“Really, it's my fault. It was there. A hundred times there. How often did I see it? I knew. It kept happening. Over and over, you'd say you were through with him...and over and over, I'd believe it...no matter what my eyes showed me. No matter what my heart told me. My. Fault.” BelieveHeartMatterEyeMy HeartHappeningsHundredNo Matter WhatFaultsOver You Book:Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection