Etel Adnan Quotes

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• At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Father

• Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Heart
  • May
  • Soul

• If you knew you could change your lifestyle and diet and avoid heart disease and other things, you should do it.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Heart
  • Change
  • Diet

• I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Heart
  • Father
  • Swimming

• For fitness, I've just bought a watch which keeps a track of how many calories I burn, what's my heart rate, which is very fascinating.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Heart
  • Fitness
  • Burn

• He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Man

• Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Life
  • Live
  • Heart

• Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really put a lot of, not just heart and soul, but a lot of physical energy into it.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Energy

• What happens in the heart simply happens.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Heart
  • Happens
  • Simply

• The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Art

• It's like someone cutting up a loved one in front of you, all the time insisting they've got your best interests at heart. They're very devious nowadays.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Heart

• Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • People
  • Music
  • Heart

• Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.

  

  C. Day Lewis
  • Heart
  • Light
  • Summer

• Sin penetrates to the heart, darkens and hardens it until it extinguishes the light of belief. Each sin has a path that leads to unbelief. Unless that sin is swiftly obliterated by seeking God's forgiveness, it grows from a worm into a snake that gnaws at the heart.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Heart
  • Light

• His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Great
  • Heart

• I want the respect of intelligent men but I will choose for myself the intelligent. I love art but I decide for myself what is art. I adore beauty but only my own soul shall tell me what is beauty. I worship God but I define and describe God for myself. I am an individual. The pleasure of my own heart shall be first to inform me when I have done good work.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Good
  • Work
  • God

• Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Heart

• Alvin wondered if it was true-if all men had evil in their hearts, and those men as were good, maybe they were simply the ones who controlled theirselves so well they could act contrary to their heart’s desire. But if that were so, then no man was good, not one.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Men
  • Heart

• It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Freedom
  • Way
  • inspirational

• I'm just talking in my songs about what's going on, what's exactly happening right now. If I was upset about something, I wrote a song. There's nothing I can't speak on. And everything I learned is from real-life experience, all first-hand: contracts, record companies, representation, everything. It's not from books: It's coming from the the heart. You can feel my pain, you can hear me turning my pain into a party. I'm not gonna let no one take the fun out of it. I'm just talking in my songs about what's going on, what's exactly happening right now. If I was upset about something, I wrote a song. There's nothing I can't speak on. And everything I learned is from real-life experience, all first-hand: contracts, record companies, representation, everything. It's not from books: It's coming from the the heart. You can feel my pain, you can hear me turning my pain into a party. I'm not gonna let no one take the fun out of it. I'm just talking in my songs about what's going on, what's exactly happening right now. If I was upset about something, I wrote a song. There's nothing I can't speak on. And everything I learned is from real-life experience, all first-hand: contracts, record companies, representation, everything. It's not from books: It's coming from the the heart. You can feel my pain, you can hear me turning my pain into a party. I'm not gonna let no one take the fun out of it. I'm just talking in my songs about what's going on, what's exactly happening right now. If I was upset about something, I wrote a song. There's nothing I can't speak on. And everything I learned is from real-life experience, all first-hand: contracts, record companies, representation, everything. It's not from books: It's coming from the the heart. You can feel my pain, you can hear me turning my pain into a party. I'm not gonna let no one take the fun out of it.

  

  Keak da Sneak
  • Heart
  • Experience
  • Song

• You keep dreaming big, never put the limit on your dreams, and believe that everything can come true.

  

  Bianca Balti
  • Believe
  • True

• one of the greatest hindrances to happiness in the present day is our tendency to standardize our conception of it.

  

  J. E. Buckrose
  • Present

• If two people always agree, one of them is redundant.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • People
  • Redundant

• If you aren't here your heart won't break in the same way.

  Etel Adnan
  • Heart
  • Break