A Well-Tempered Heart Quotes

“We are responsible not only for what we do, but also for what we fail to do.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart

“It is our own flaws that we are least ready to forgive in others.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart

“To forgive, one must love and be loved. Only those who forgive can be free. Whoever forgives is a prisoner no more.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart

“We wish to be loved as we ourselves would love. Any other way makes us uncomfortable.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart

“Is it true that we can count the moments in which something really happens in our lives? Do we notice it right away, or only in hindsight?”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart

“What do violent individuals fear most? Violence? I should say not! By what do the cruel and selfish feel most threatened? All of them fear nothing as much as they fear love.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart

“The world was full of signs. One needed only to know how to see and interpret them.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart

“What are people with guns most afraid of? Other people with guns? No! What do violent individuals fear most? Violence? I should say not! By what do the cruel and selfish feel most threatened? All of them fear nothing as much as they fear love.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart

“Not all truths are explicable. Not all explicable things are true.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart: Sequel to The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

“According to her we are each our own greatest mystery, and our life’s work is to solve ourselves. None of us ever succeeds, she says, but it is our duty to follow the trail. Regardless of how long it is or where it might”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart

“How many times must we be loved in order to be happy?”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart

“Why do we so often put off the things that matter most to us?”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart

“By how many people must we be loved in order to be happy? Two? Five? Ten? Or maybe only one? The one who gives us sight. Who takes away fear. Who breathes meaning into our existence. There”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart

“Loneliness is the most severe punishment. We are not built to handle it. I”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart: Sequel to The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

“In the hell of the well-intentioned.” That was how he referred to the charity balls my mother helped organize.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart: Sequel to The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

“Images can fade. Sounds and smells disappear from our memory. But our heart forgets nothing. A child’s soul knows everything.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart: Sequel to The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

“What’s more, they had taught him to be friendly and helpful to others. Not because he owed it to them. Because he owed it to himself.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart: Sequel to The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

“We often discover only many years later whether life and the stars were smiling upon us or not. Life can take the most surprising turns. What”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart: Sequel to The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

“Every step we take leaves a trace.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart

“There are moments that we simply cannot endure. They transform us into someone else.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart

“Defy ephemerality. Wander not always ahead of yourself in thought, but neither dawdle in the past. It is the art of arrival. Of being in one, only one, place at one time. Of absorbing it with all of your senses. Its beauty, its ugliness, its singularity. Of allowing oneself to be overwhelmed, fearlessly. The art of being where you are.’ I read that once in a book I was restoring. I think it was called On Travel. Do you like it?”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart

“We have the power to change ourselves. We are not condemned to remain who we are. No one can help us do this but ourselves.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart

“How thin is the wall between us and madness? No one knows what it is made of. No one knows how much pressure it can withstand. Until it gives.

We all live on the edge.

It's just one step. A small one. Some of us sense it; others do not.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart

“To forgive, one must love and be loved. Only those who forgive can be free.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart: Sequel to The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

“we acknowledge as love primarily those things that correspond to our own image thereof. We wish to be loved as we ourselves would love. Any other way makes us uncomfortable.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart: Sequel to The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

“Besides, I have no point of comparison," he declared, his eyes still closed. "That is the secret of a happy life.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart

“HOW THIN IS the wall between us and madness? No one knows what it is made of. No one knows how much pressure it can withstand. Until it gives.
We all live on the edge.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart

“THERE ARE MEMORIES we cannot escape. We take them with us wherever we go, however far, like it or not. They pursue us or accompany us in good times and in bad. We smell their scents. We hear their sounds. We delight in them or dread them. By day and by night. My”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart

“Anyone who has been betrayed carries that betrayal inside himself. How”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart: Sequel to The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

“Anyone who has been the victim of violence carries that violence inside himself. Anyone”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart: Sequel to The Art of Hearing Heartbeats