there for another/hearts

Nothing snaps me out of thinking about my own issues like being a shoulder to cry on for someone else. Turning outwardly for another person, and calling forth words of encouragement for a loved one.

My younger brother called me. He missed me and needed my advice. I remember 19. Quite vividly. I was able to give him words of hope, and at the end of the conversation he was able to laugh a bit.   It was absolutely the best feeling. After all, isn't that what makes life wonderful- the ability to know we are loved and cared for? That when in need- we matter, and can have the assurance that someone, maybe more than one person, would do anything they could for us? I think so.


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Everybody's at war with different things. . . . I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.

-- Tupac Shakur




Grateful owner of the first Jarvik artificial heart, Houghton seems to have lost his emotions...

At the same time, he reports, he's become more "coldhearted" -- "less sympathetic in some ways." He just doesn't feel like he can connect with those close to him. He wishes he could bond with his twin grandsons, for example. "They're 8, and I don't want to be bothered to have a reasonable relationship with them and I don't know why," he says.

The real price of his tin heart, he says, was the shift in his spirit. "My emotions have changed. Somehow I can't help that," he says.

"Being a Jungian psychologist, I would describe myself as less intuitive. More of a thinking, more rational, less intuitive person. Less sure if I can do things by inspiration."



Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.

-- Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald



He can only feel enough to regret that he doesn't feel enough.

The poets, the bible have been right all these millennia....emotions are matters of the heart...





As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.

-- Proverbs 23:7
In the United States, there were only 40 implants of permanent ventricular-assist devices in the last reporting year. Most are used to keep people alive until a human heart can be found for transplant. (Houghton's original condition ruled out a transplant.) No one has had one for as long as Houghton. In fact, Houghton's cardiologist reports his six other implant patients are no longer in the running. They all have died.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

-- Blaise Pascal



I think we all sometimes hate how our heart can hurt, how it can mislead, how it can be in such pain. But how about how it can glow with love, leap with joy, absolutely radiate with amazing feelings, energy.... something to be so grateful for.. that heart beating within.... so much more than just flesh..