Heart

Heart

A. W. Tozer:
Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek tranquility by stopping our ears to the cries of human pain is to make ourselves not Christian but a kind of degenerate stoic having no relation either to stoicism or Christianity.
Anne Frank:
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
Barbara De Angelis:
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make – not just on your wedding day, but over and over again — and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
Blaise Pascal:
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.
Blaise Pascal:
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal:
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart.
Carl Jung:
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Charles Dickens:
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Charles H. Perkhurst:
The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.
Charlotte Bronte:
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman:
Human life consists in mutual service. No grief, pain, misfortune, or “broken heart,” is excuse for cutting off one’s life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one. (Suicide Note, August 17, 1935)
Confucius:
To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.
David Korten:
If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth. This requires building economies with heart.
Edmund Burke:
Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton:
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
Elizabeth Stone:
Making the decision to have a child – it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.
Emily Dickinson:
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
Friedrich von Schiller:
If you want to study yourself — look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people — look into your own heart.
Golda Meir:
At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
Helen Keller:
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched … but are felt in the heart.
Henri-Frederic Amiel:
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
The holiest of holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniversaries of the heart.
James Baldwin:
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart, for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
James Earl Jones:
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Kahlil Gibran:
Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
Lord Byron:
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Marianne Williamson:
In every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it.
Marietta McCarty:
Joy is a heart full and a mind purified by gratitude.
Mohandas K. Gandhi:
If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.
Neil Gaiman:
Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life…
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Pearl S. Buck:
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Pearl S. Buck:
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Pema Chodron:
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it’s bottomless, that it doesn’t have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.
Poem of a Buddhist nun:
Only within burns the fire I kindle.
My heart the altar.
My heart the altar.
Princess Diana:
Only do what your heart tells you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
Sara Paddison:
You may not always be able to feel a deeper heart feeling right away, but stay focused in the heart. The sincerity of your effort can reconnect you to your heart current and start the juices flowing. To plug in, think of someone you love or remember what feels good, maybe a fulfilling experience. Feelings help you remember.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama:
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.
Thich Nhat Hanh:
May our heart’s garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.
Thich Nhat Hanh:
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
Thornton Wilder:
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Vaclav Havel:
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness, and in human responsibility.
Virginia Woolf:
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Wallace Stegner:
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Washington Irving:
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
William Wordsworth:
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart…
Winston Churchill:
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
Zelda Fitzgerald:
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much a heart can hold.