Wholehearted Quotes

“Never shy away from opportunity and wholehearted living. Never be fearful of putting yourself out there. The courageous may encounter many disappointments, experience profound disillusionment, gather many wounds; but cherish your scars for they are the proud emblems of a truly phenomenal life. The fearful, cautious, cynical and self-repressed do not live at all. And that is simply no way to be in this world.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Love will commit, or love will commit suicide.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Spiritual humility is not about getting small, not about debasing oneself, but about approaching everything and everyone else with a readiness to see goodness and to be surprised. This is the humility of a child, which Jesus lauded. It is the humility of the scientist and the mystic. It has a lightness of step, not a heaviness of heart. That lightness is the surest litmus test I know for recognizing wisdom when you see it in the world or feel its stirrings in yourself. The questions that can lead us are already alive in our midst, waiting to be summoned and made real. It is a joy to name them. It is a gift to plant them in our senses, our bodies, the places we inhabit, the part of the world we can see and touch and help to heal. It is a relief to claim our love of each other and take that on as an adventure, a calling. It is a pleasure to wonder at the mystery we are and find delight in the vastness of reality that is embedded in our beings. It is a privilege to hold something robust and resilient called hope, which has the power to shift the world on its axis.”
― Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living

“There is no work-life balance. We have one life. What's most important is that you be awake for it.”
― Janice Marturano

“Marianne could never love by halves; and her whole heart became, in time, as much devoted to her husband, as it had once been to Willoughby.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.”
― John Ruskin

“What comes into your life will either feel aligned with your true nature or it won't.”
― Kris Franken, The Call of Intuition: How to Recognize & Honor Your Intuition, Instinct & Insight

“Self-love rather than rendering us self-centered makes us open-hearted and more loving. Self-love and arrogance are not equal. Arrogance is not self-love. It is low self-esteem robed in boastfulness. It is a barricade, not love.”
― Florence Witt, Say Yes: Answering the Invitation to Live an Authentic Life

“Growing and strengthening your self-awareness and living from your inner intelligence is essential to living with purpose, ease, joy, and abundance.”
― Kris Franken, The Call of Intuition

“Connecting with nature will foster a wholehearted consciousness of the universe within.”
― Kris Franken, The Call of Intuition: How to Recognize & Honor Your Intuition, Instinct & Insight

“When you open the floodgates to love, you gently, compassionately, and powerfully transmute everything based in fear into love.”
― Kris Franken, The Call of Intuition: How to Recognize & Honor Your Intuition, Instinct & Insight

“Go in with a full and daring heart. You cannot lose or fail. In creativity, you can do no wrong. Let your purpose be your fully expressed life.”
― Kris Franken, The Call of Intuition: How to Recognize & Honor Your Intuition, Instinct & Insight

“You'll know that you're aligned with the truth of your deepest wisdom when your body feels light and expansive. You'll know when something isn't right for you because you'll feel constricted, awkward, fidgety, tense, or edgy.”
― Kris Franken, The Call of Intuition: How to Recognize & Honor Your Intuition, Instinct & Insight

“A promise is a bird that can never be set free.”
― Conor McCreery, The Last Witch: Fear & Fire