Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
-- Frederick Buechner, (Jul 11 1926-____), US clergy, novelist; He is the prize-winning writer of psychological novels Long Days of Dying, 1950 and Return of Ansel Gibbs, 1959.