Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

Stay in your heart.

The Heart is the Capital of the Mind— The Mind is a single State— The Heart and the Mind together make A single Continent— One—is the Population— Numerous enough— This ecstatic Nation Seek—it is Yourself.

Smooth your way to the head through the heart. The way of reason is a good one: but it is commonly something longer, and perhapsnot so sure.

A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.

Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever

Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.

I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering.

When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness

I feel like I'm kind of a bit of a sponge in a way. Like, if people around me are going through things, I find it very hard not to be empathetic.

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.

When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel that the more I do that in my own life, the more I can see how to play a character.

I am a really sensitive person.

I have no human feelings.

We think too much and feel too little.

It's important to determine not just the quality of your mind but the fullness of your heart.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

I don't think you can create art out of anger; it has to come out of some form of understanding. You have to feel good about who you are and that you could do something to change things.

I am a very sensitive person.

I am surprisingly very sensitive.

If we know how to listen to our own heart, we can listen to the hearts of others.

you don't always have to hold your head higher than your heart

I've always thought I could use my brain and my heart to jockey everyone around to the good. But life is not jockeyable. When you try, you make people infinitely crazier than they already were, including or especially yourself.

The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.