E. M. Forster Quotes

The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

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

Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and strengthen the good heart.

This is life. Our bodies change. Our minds change. Our hearts change. Things are always evolving. I hope we can be supportive of each other and try to really have each other's backs, especially when we don't know the whole story.

Having a kind heart, you care about everybody else. You don't eat everything. Don't be a big. People in the community, be nice. As coaches, we want to see guys develop those kind of things, take those things with them when they leave our programs.

You learn to love by loving.

Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.

Acting from the appropriateness of the heart, we are freed from the neediness of the mind.

Be patient with the boys - you are dealing with soul-stuff.

I am working on a technical paper on compassion. So I am reading everything I can on the subject, including my own mind and heart.

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit.

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not as a make-nice tool but as an understanding, is essential to the next step.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.

Many times, we spend so much time on policy, but we don't explain how the policy affects and makes the heart even grow bigger. And I think that's a place that we have to look inside.

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

I do have a bit of empathy I suppose, but it has come more recently as I'm knocking on 30's door and I think I'm getting there.

I've learned a lot. Being more compassionate.

I will try and become a very empathetic person because I do think that's a nice trait.

"People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts." This is not so; it is only that there are more educable minds than there are educable hearts.