Cormac McCarthy Quotes

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart.

As we stop monitoring others' opinions, we connect with our heart's wisdom.

You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.

He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

This business of really knowing people, deep down, including your own self, it is not something you can learn in school or from a book. It takes your whole being to do it—your eyes and your ears, your brain and your heart. Maybe your heart most of all. —Bobby Goodspeed

Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say

To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment.

You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

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 learned a long time ago that if you subscribe and believe the good, you have to believe the bad. My measure is my heart and what I know.

We think empathy is innate, but it's not. It's a muscle you're working.

I learned always to follow your heart.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

A teacher cannot give you the truth The truth is already in you You only need to open yourself – body, mind and heart- so that his or her teachings will penetrate your own seeds of understanding and enlightenment If you let the words enter you, the soil and the seeds will do the rest of the work

Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am.

Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart.

Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that greatest miracle of all, the human being.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity.