“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.”
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Mark Twain637
American author and humorist 1835–1910Related quotes
“Follow your heart but take your brain with you.”
Alfred Adler (1870–1937) Medical Doctor, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Personality Theorist
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P. J. O'Rourke book Republican Party Reptile
Republican Party Reptile (1987)
Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host
The Glenn Beck Program
Premiere Radio Networks
2006-10-05
Hour 2
Comment in response to a caller on the issue of Talk Radio Host Mike Gallagher granting the Westboro Baptist Church airtime in exchange for not protesting at the funerals of Amish schoolgirls killed in a school shooting at the West Nickel Mine Amish School in Bart Township (Lancaster County, Pennsylvania).
2000s
“Never fish for praise; it is not worth the bait.”
James Burgh (1714–1775) British politician
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
“When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.”
Byron Katie (1942) American spiritual writer
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
“Your passions and your thoughts are older than your heart or brain.”
Nikos Kazantzakis book The Saviors of God
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: You are not a miserable and momentary body; behind your fleeting mask of clay, a thousand-year-old face lies in ambush. Your passions and your thoughts are older than your heart or brain.
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
Interview in Macworld magazine (February 2004)
2000s