A Quote by Jean Racine
When I'm carried away, isn't it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth?
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A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouth utters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are the same. But the line runs both ways. The words of the mouth will become the meditations of the heart, and the habit of loose talk loosens the fastenings of our understanding.
I am not a character who gets carried away with good or bad performances and I won't get carried away by bigger or lesser critics. It's the same when you get praise. You can't get carried away with that.
I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away--
Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.
Those carried away by power are soon carried away.
Each beat of your heart is a small miracle, you know, so don't get carried away.
Passion is born when your heart gets carried away with a purpose greater than yourself.
Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that.
He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. Carried forth and scattered and carried forth again. Everything uncoupled from its shoring. Unsupported in the ashen air. Sustained by a breath, trembling and brief. If only my heart were stone.
I didn't say I'm walking away. I said I was stepping down as chairman. I won't walk away. I'll be carried away.
Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.
You are flawed, you are stuck in old patterns, you become carried away with yourself. Indeed you are quite impossible in many ways. And still, you are beautiful beyond measure. For the core of what you are is fashioned out of love, that potent blend of openness, warmth, and clear, transparent presence.
Don't get carried away when things go well, don't get carried away when they go badly.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood on the ground are gone, inundated and carried away by that rush of water. And still the rain beats down on the surface of the river. Every time you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That’s it. That’s my heart.
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