Edmund Clarence Stedman Quotes

I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.

And I did feel there was an album to be made about winter that can make you feel the way Sinatra and Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline make me feel - warm, nostalgic and comforted.

The wise man should keep the balance between love and power; he should keep the love in his nature ever increasing and expanding, and at the same time strengthen the will so that the heart may not easily be broken.

Find a balance between head and heart.

Sorrow may be a good thing for a woman's heart, but it is a poor cosmetic for her face.

I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who turn sad faces toward the world find only sadness reflected. But a smile is reflected in the same way, and cheers and brightens our hearts. You think there is no pleasure to be had in life. That is because you are heartsick and-and tired, as you say. With one sad story ended you are afraid to begin another-a sequel-feeling it would be equally sad. But why should it be? Isn't the joy or sorrow equally divided in life?

In love and friendship the imagination is as much exercised as the heart; and if either is outraged the other will be estranged. It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart,--it is so much the more sensitive.

Love goes through different stages. But it endures.

The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal nobler music from Life's many frets: The golden threads are spun thro' Suffering's fire, Wherewith the marriage-robes for heaven are woven: And all the rarest hues of human life Take radiance, and are rainbow'd out in tears.

What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.

You can't be happy that fire cooks your food and be mad it burns your fingertips.

A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart.

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part.

Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head.

As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.

What's the point of living if you're going to hate the world? Guard your heart if you have to, but don't shut it away.

If your heart is full of fear, you won't seek truth; you'll seek security. If a heart is full of love, it will have a limbering effect on the mind.

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.

The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

The heart is an organ of fire and you can't stop it from feeling or connecting.

Only the soul that knows the mighty grief can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction, and you will not have to worry about your feet.