Heart Quotes

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.

Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.

You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life.

I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart attack. The anxiety would be way too much for me. I don't have as strong a backbone as those other show writers.

I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?

I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.

My heart is as pure as the driven slush.

I've had my heart broken one too many times.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

I don't give books as gifts. Books are extremely personal, and I would hate to give someone a book that they don't like or want, because it would break my heart if they didn't read it.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

I don't take relationships too seriously, but everyone else seems to. And when you get your heart broken, it's like the end of the world. And I look at it as that was one moment in your life, one chapter. That person helped you grow and figure out what kind of person you want to be with in the future.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

I guess I am attracted to older women. I'm looking for a 40-something who has had her heart broken two or three hundred times. She's going to be fun!

Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world.

There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.