Theme of Discussion Zoom Meeting: Warm Hearted

Last updated 1/10/2023 Email: rgordon118@tampabay.rr.com

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Questions:

1. What is a warm hearted person?

2. What habits does a warm hearted person demonstrate?

3. How does someone become warm hearted? Early childhood? Genetics?

4. What is a cold hearted person?

5. If you had a serious problem that made you feel very sad, what are the characteristics of a friend you might find helpful in confiding in?

6. How has a warm hearted person played a big role in your life?

7. Do women tend to more warm hearted than men? Give the reason(s) for your answer.

8. If you aspired to become a political leader, would it be more in your favor to be known as cold hearted than warm hearted? How about if you aspired to be a policeman? A junior high teacher in a tough, impoverished neighborhood?

9. Can a dog or cat as a pet help a child to become more warm hearted? How about a snake?

10.Can the internet affect a person’s warm heartedness?

11.Have you ever read a book or seen a movie that made you feel more warm hearted?

12.Are certain cultures known to be more warm hearted?

13.How has the heart become the key element in the expression “warm hearted”? Why not “warmed brain”?

14.How, if at all, has our discussion today on “warm hearted” influenced your attitude toward this term?

Quotations:

1. “A warm heart can heat us even in very low temperatures; a cold heart can frost us even in very high temperatures!”― Mehmet Murat ildan

2. “Warm hearts with willing hands makes a happy humanity.”― Lailah Gifty Akita

3. I'm only 19 but my mind is older...When things get for real, my warm heart turns cold. -- Prodigy

4. So the smart brain must be balanced with a warm heart, a good heart – a sense of responsibility, of concern for the well-being of others. – Dalai Lama

5. Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away. – Graham Greene

6. You cannot warm the hearts of people with God’s love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet. – William Booth

7. An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men. — Vincent Van Gogh

8. There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art. — Raymond Chandler

9. Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts. — Ali ibn Abi Talib

10. A smile's warmth comes from the fire within the heart.--Anthony T. Hincks