Blaise Pascal Quotes

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

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.

I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

Sympathy relies on a common experience. If you're clumsy, you might have sympathy for others who tend to bump into things. Empathy, on the other hand, is the ability to understand another person's feelings even if you've never experienced them yourself.

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.

If we lose touch with our heart's wisdom, then no method avails; if we love, then nothing else is necessary.

Tell my brother to remember his heart in all things. That is where his honor and his destiny will be found. Tell him.

Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't.

What comes from the heart goes to the heart

The desire to reach hearts is wise

Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.

learning must travel the distance from head to heart.

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

Our voice resonates with life. Because this is so, it can touch the lives of others. The caring and compassion imbued in your voice finds passage to the listener's soul, striking his or her heart and causing it to sing out; the human voice summons something profound from deep within, and can even compel a person into action.

He is not to them what he is to me," I thought: "he is not of their kind. I believe he is of mine- I am sure he is- I feel akin to him- I understand the language of his countenance and movements: though rank and wealth sever us widely, I have something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that assimilates me mentally to him.

I try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.

I am called to listen to the sound of my own heart -- to write the story within myself that demands to be told at that particular point in my life. And if I do this faithfully, clothing that idea in the flesh of human experience and setting it in a true place, the sound from my heart will resound in the reader's heart.

What is genius or courage without a heart?

Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.

Speak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart.

Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked. "Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

The heart of change is in the emotions.