Welcome to these Mercy Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
I have always found that mercy bears
richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln
I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau
The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
- William Shakespeare
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I feel the same way about solitude as some people
feel about the blessing of the church.
It's the light of grace for me.
I never close my door behind me without the awareness
that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.
- Peter Hoeg
Computers are like Old Testament gods;
lots of rules and no mercy.
- Joseph Campbell
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
- Winston Churchill
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies;
but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and,
as the magnet finds the iron,
so it will find, in every hour,
some heavenly blessings!
- Henry Ward Beecher
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
The most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched,
they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The heart is always right -
if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart -
because mind is a creation of the society.
It has been educated.
You have been given it by the society, not by existence.
The heart is unpolluted.
- Osho
Today is your day to paint life in bold colors;
set today's rhythm with your heart-drum;
walk today's march with courage;
create today as your celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering
is worse than the suffering itself.
- Paulo Coelho
You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Set Life's Rhythm with Your Heart-Drum
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous
Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The greatest test of courage on earth
is to bear defeat without losing heart.
- Robert Ingersoll
I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people
is that they trigger confusion in us
that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with.
To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves,
we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
- Pema Chodron
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift
and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant
and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein
Approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
The power of intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself
the means of inspiration and survival.
- Winston Churchill
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
- Cicero
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will.
Its seat is in the heart,
and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart,
cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Do what you feel in your heart to be right.
You'll be criticized anyway.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We attract abundance when we ask from a compassionate heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can choose to follow your heart always.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
All paths are the same, leading nowhere.
Therefore, pick a path with heart!
- Carlos Castaneda
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
- Pope John Paul II
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The heart is forever inexperienced.
- Henry David Thoreau
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A good head and a good heart
are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood
Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma
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