Marcel Proust Quotes

The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts. And therefore the universe changes.

Nothing but the heart can change the heart.

The hearts of great men can be changed.

The hearts of the great can be changed.

Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.

And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.

It's funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they've changed completely.

We renovate the heart by, of course, changing it, but we can't do that, really, without changing the other essential parts of the human personality.

All that you really want in life is to change how you feel.

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).

The emotional wisdom of the heart is simple. When we accept our human feelings, a remarkable transformation occurs. Tenderness and wisdom arise naturally and spontaneously. Where we once sought strength over others, now our strength becomes our own; where we once sought to defend ourselves, we laugh.

The Christian is prepared to say, 'I don't like the sound of this, ... but if this is what it really means, I'm going to have to pray for grace and strength to get that into my heart and be shaped by it.'

We build our personalities laboriously and through many years, and we cannot order fundamental changes just because we might value their utility; no button reading "positive attitude" protrudes from our hearts, and no finger can coerce positivity into immediate action by a single and painless pressing.

When heart is open, you will change just like a flower slowly opening.

In other words, it was a struggle with himself. And the product of that struggle: anger, bitterness, resentment, envy or transformation, aspiration, hope, decency..the product of that struggle is the quality of your life and the nature of your soul.

When you pray, things remain the same, but you begin to be different. The same thing when a man falls in love, his circumstances and conditions remain the same, but he has a sovereign preference in his heart for another person which transfigures everything!

Sometimes, God may prioritize performing a miracle on our hearts and minds over a miracle concerning our circumstances.

His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.

Today's reading was "if they ask you to walk a mile, walk two. Don't take an eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth." You have chances every second to live this Word, but it has to be in you. It can't just be an idea; it has to sink from the mind into the heart.

The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.

What the world needs today is neither a new order, a new education, a new system, a new society nor a new religion. The remedy lies in a mind and a heart filled with holiness.

Many people need a new rewiring of their heart and mind.

We can create as magnificent an environment as we like, but unless we change the heart it's all a waste of time.

If you desire to become a more generous person, don't wait for your income to change. Change your heart.

He felt changed, but there was no one to tell.