“In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!” HeartVoiceChildhoodSeriousMy HeartIllnessThroatKateInfection Author:Patsy Cline
“That in these times every serious person should not in his heart have felt some difliculty with the doctrines of the incarnation, I cannot helieve. We are not as we were. When Christianity was first published, the imagination of mankind presented the relation of heaven to earth very differently from what it does now.” ShouldFirstsHeartPersonsDoeEarthHeavenFeltImaginationChristianityMankindSeriousRelationDoctrineIncarnationSerious Person Author:James Anthony Froude
“We, as parents, must understand the serious responsibility that we have in inculcating love for God in the hearts of children. If our children do not feel love they will not understand God’s love because the love of the parent is translated to the children as the love of God. When they feel their parents' love, they can actually begin to understand God’s love.” IfsFeelsHeartChildrenParentLove IsResponsibilitySeriousOur ChildrenGod LoveGod's LoveParents Love Author:Radhanath Swami
“Even the village rain-maker no longer claimed to be able to intervene. He could not stop the rain now, just as he would not attempt to start it in the heart of the dry season, without serious danger to his own health.” HeartAbleDangerSeriousRainSeasonsDryVillageMakers Book:Things Fall Apart Source: Things Fall Apart
“Just as the camera draws a stake through the heart of serious portraiture, television has killed the novel of social reportage.” HeartSocialNovelTelevisionSeriousDrawsCamerasStakesPortraiture Author:Jonathan Franzen
“Hardening of the hearteries is the most serious affliction besetting marriage, and warm, good-humored, approving words are the only effective preventive.” HeartSeriousWarmAfflictionApproving Author:Jo Coudert
“A refugee is not just someone lacking in money and everything else. A refugee is vulnerable to the slightest touch: he has lost his country, his friends, his earthly belongings. He is a stranger, sick at heart. He is suspicious; he feels misunderstood. If people smile, he thinks they ridicule him; if they look serious, he thinks they don't like him. He is a full-grown tree in the dangerous process of being transplanted, with the chance of possibly not being able to take root in the new soil.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsLooksHeartCountryAbleLostProcessChanceTreeDangerousSeriousRootsSickStrangerVulnerableSoilBelongingLackingRefugeeRidiculeMisunderstoodSuspicious Author:Maria Franziska von Trapp
“When we follow our hearts, we follow the path of lessons we were meant to take and gain knowledge from. Sometimes the heart conquers over reason, and this may lead us to making serious mistakes, but these are mistakes written for us to grow. This is the real reason you hear 'FOLLOW YOUR HEART'. And the real reason you hear, 'FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS' is because our dreams expose us to our true multidimensional realities outside of this delusional realm we call reality. Our TRUE reality can be found in our dreams, where we are our true multidimensional selves.” HeartMayRealSelfSometimesReasonDreamRealityFoundGrowsMistakePathWrittenSeriousLessonsGainsConquerYour DreamsRealmsOur DreamsFollow Your DreamsFollow Your HeartDelusionalSerious MistakesTrue Reality Author:Suzy Kassem
“Just look at life with more playful eyes. Don't be serious. Seriousness becomes like a blindness. Don't pretend to be a thinker, a philosopher. Just simply be a human being. The whole world is showering its joy on you in so many ways, but if you are too serious, you cannot open your heart.” IfsWorldWayLifeHumansLooksHeartWholeEyeJoyHuman BeingsSeriousPhilosopherWhole WorldThinkerBlindnessSeriousnessOpen Your Heart Author:Rajneesh
“When I was young, my father had a serious heart attack. He survived, but we lost our house and car. Under the Canadian Medicare system, though, we would have kept the house and car and would have just had to pay the inheritance tax.” HeartYoungFatherHouseLostPayCarSeriousTaxesSurvivedInheritanceMedicareHeart AttackInheritance Tax Author:Emo Philips
“We always say we are equal in front of death, but when you are rich, for example, and you have everybody taking care of you, I think that you suffer much less. It must be much more painful to die when you are poor than when you are rich. But when your heart is broken, you can be rich, poor, whatever - a broken heart, we are all equal in front of it. And I think there is no subject more serious.” ThinkingHeartCareSufferingDiesPoorRichSubjectsFrontsExampleSeriousBrokenEqualPainfulRich Poor Author:Marjane Satrapi
“Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart” MenHeartUnderstandingAnimalGriefSadnessSeriousHabitReflectionMiseryGrieving Book:John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826 Source: John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826
“The demon of acedia -- also called the noonday demon -- is the one that causes the most serious trouble of all. . . . He makes it seem that the sun barely moves, if at all, and . . . he instills in the heart of the monk a hatred for the place, a hatred for his very life itself.” IfsHeartSeemsMovingCausesSunTroubleSeriousHatredDemonMonkInstill Author:Kathleen Norris
“Wine give strenght to weary men. and And wine can of their wits the wise beguile. Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. and Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, Dry up in law; the muses smell of wine. and No poem was ever written by a drinker of water. and Bacchus opens the gate of the heart. and Might to inspire new hopes and powerful To drown the bitterness of cares.” MenGivingHeartMightCareLawWaterPowerfulWiseWrittenInspireSeriousDrinkWineSmellWitDryGatesBitternessMuseWearySageIn-lawsDrinkersDineNew HopeDry UpStrenghtBacchus Author:Homer
“A prayerful life is the key to possessing gratitude. We often take for granted the people who most deserve our gratitude. Let us not wait until it is too late for us to express our gratitude. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. If I gratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues. To express gratitude is gracious and honorable, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live with gratitude ever in our hearts is to touch heaven.” PeopleIfsGivingHeartFeelingsLife IsHeavenWaitingSinVirtueSeriousKeysGratitudeLateDeserveNobleGrantedGenerousToo LateHonorableGraciousPossessingExpressing GratitudeWrappingPrayerful Author:Thomas S. Monson
“[E]ncouraging the Muslim world, and particularly the Arab Muslim world, which is the heart of the global terrorist threat - to adopt democratic ways and to shine the light of liberty into its culture of medieval darkness is a pragmatic necessity for the future security of the civilized world. That is the reality behind the President's address. Only people in serious denial can be blind to this fact. Only liberals.” PeopleWorldWayHeartFactsRealityLightCulturePresidentBehindsLibertyDarknessSecuritySeriousBlindShiningThreatDemocraticTerroristDenialAddressesCivilizedMedievalPragmaticMuslim World Author:David Horowitz
“I talk about folding it in often with Althea, my girlfriend. She's getting her doctoral degree at Berkeley and she talks about how even when writing these very academic, and, for the most part, serious papers there's just so much going on in her head and heart, and it's a reminder that there's a reason that she's studying these things.” WritingHeartReasonStudySeriousDegreesPaperGirlfriendAcademicPapersRemindersMy GirlfriendBerkeleyHead And HeartFolding Author:Paul Beatty
“We've got to temper anything we say with that. On the other hand, you've got to be serious about what you do. And you've got to understand the price you pay for frivolity or just for greed - it's a very high price, especially if you're involved in this sacred material, which is about the human heart and human desire and human tragedy.” IfsHumansHeartHandsDesirePaySeriousMaterialsInvolvedTragedySacredGreedTemperHuman HeartHigh PricesFrivolity Author:Leonard Cohen
“People don't understand that's what it takes. People look at this microwave success, but it takes years. You better be about it, and serious about what it is you're trying to put out into the world. The gratification is not going to be instant. This is the long game. You gotta be focused and you gotta have it in your heart, ultimate confidence, that it's dope. When it hits, it's going to be worth.” PeopleWorldTryingHeartLongSeriousUltimateFocusedInstantGratificationDope Author:Musiq
“America is very conservative. It is not a very modern country. If you look at the population, they are very serious, very nice, very good people. I love the Americans. But they are too serious to be modern. But it's not too late. With the last election, America has proven that it's a very young country at heart. We have big hopes in the world that we can again love America for what it is.” PeopleWorldHeartCountryNiceModernSeriousElectionVery GoodConservativeGood PeopleVery Nice Author:Luigi Colani