Ellen Key Quotes

We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and that's what my songs are about... what it means to be a human being.

Seeing comes from the inside, from the heart, from life's experiences.

In every person we meet there's this little piece of God in them and that's who you talk to. And that's the only person that you allow to talk to you. When something else is speaking, you walk away from that. If it's not good, if it's not love, you walk away from it.

As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.

It's what you feel, what is in your heart that matters most.

It is very important to have connection with your soul and open your heart to people.

I love everything about the human experience.

There's the laws of society and morality and then there's the laws of the heart.

The wise are wise only because they love.

I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don't have a problem accepting that.

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.

Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps.

You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.

I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.

Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.