“Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.”
Source: Northanger Abbey
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Jane Austen 477
English novelist 1775–1817Related quotes
“The heart is a very, very resilient little muscle. It really is.”
Source: Hannah and Her Sisters
“If one's enemies know where you are, no matter how well protected you are, you can be gotten.”
Prayers For The Assassin (2006)
Variant: All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.
Source: It Chooses You
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Ch 10
The Little Lame Prince and his Travelling Cloak (1875)
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Source: 1980s, Mind Without Measure (1984), p. 97
Context: How can one be compassionate if you belong to any religion, follow any guru, believe in something, believe in your scriptures, and so on, attached to a conclusion? When you accept your guru, you have come to a conclusion, or when you strongly believe in god or in a saviour, this or that, can there be compassion? You may do social work, help the poor out of pity, out of sympathy, out of charity, but is all that love and compassion?
