#hear

When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed out by the TV, I felt empty. My heart hurt. I often felt hollow or as if I were some sort of wispy ghost, barely existing. ↗

— Judith Wright

#barely #creative #deeply #empty #engaged

The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital. ↗

— George Steiner

#being #brain #expression #heart #human

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim. ↗

— Robert Baden-Powell

#boy #carries #more #out #suggestions

She’d said she loved him. She'd put that impossible, unimaginably beautiful gift in his hands and he’d thrown it back at her. To save her. To save himself. ↗

— V.S. Carnes

#love #preservation #beauty

A Green Party candidate would be very different from a Democrat or Republican and should be heard. ↗

— Peter Camejo

#democrat #different #green #heard #party

There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge. ↗

— Patrick Campbell

#courage #fundamental #gulf #heart #human

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart. ↗

— Raymond Williams

#breaks #capitalism #capitalists #ever #faster

My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's. ↗

— Mariah Carey

#been #broken #else #heart #i

Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true. ↗

— David Caruso

#behavior #heard #probably #story #true

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#god #hear #hum #human #interests