Heart Muscle Quotes

#1. In the study, researchers injected a gene called Tbx18 into the pigs' hearts. This gene, which is also found in humans, reprogrammed a small number of heart-muscle cells into cells that emit electrical impulses and drive the beating of the heart.

Anonymous

#2. Miguel Indurain, five-time winner of the Tour de France, reported a resting heart rate of only 28 bpm. The reason for this is that, with appropriate training, the heart muscle increases in both size and strength.

Roy Benson

#3. There's a space at the bottom of an exhale, a little hitch between taking in and letting out that's a perfect zero you can go into. There's a rest point between the heart muscle's close and open - an instant of keenest living when you're momentarily dead. You can rest there.

Mary Karr

#4. What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out.

Mehmet Oz

#5. Gut instincts were supposed to be the most trustworthy and it was in her gut where she felt the butterflies. The heart had its purpose as a blood pumping muscle, but love ... love blossomed and sparked through the body - originating from the gut.

Nikki Jefford

#6. The heart is a muscle like any other. Tearing it down is the only way to make it stronger.

Sarah Skilton

#7. Energy comes not from your muscle neither from your heart. It comes from your inner source.

Amit Ray

#8. I'm sure once he recovers from the muscle tone and tattoos he'll be fine.'
Good thing he didn't know about the penis piercing. That would give him a heart attack. Or the fact that I had seen the penis piercing.

Erin McCarthy

#9. Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.

George Eliot

#10. My heart no longer beats but is a tugging muscle,

Franz Kafka

#11. A champion isn't made of muscle; a champion is made of heart.

Liang Chow

#12. The fool has set in his heart that he can get more money through the tiring of his muscle and the starvation of his brain-but he can't.

William D. Hoard

#13. Once she kissed me, my heart slowed, and every muscle in my body relaxed. How much I needed her terrified me. -pg 252/ARC

Jamie McGuire

#14. His words made me aware that the heart in my chest is a muscle like any other. It can hurt.

Nicola Yoon

#15. He felt the muscle of his heart rip apart, and there was nothing he could do but watch it bleed all over the dreams he had never meant to have.

Anne Osterlund

#16. Exercise could be more soulfully performed by emphasizing fantasy and imagination. Usually we are told how much time to spend at a certain exercise, what heart rate to aim for, and which muscle to focus on for toning.

Thomas Moore

#17. The heart is a muscle like any other and the best exercise you can do for it is called picking yourself
up off the floor.

Pleasefindthis

#18. When Scripture talks about the heart, it's not talking about that life-sustaining muscle. It's talking about our entire inner being. The heart is the seat of our emotions, the seat of decisive action, and the seat of belief (as well as doubt).

Billy Graham

#19. I believe in the power of imagination. I believe in the unexplained possibilities of the spirit. And I believe that the heart, like any other muscle, grows stiff if it is not exercised regularly.

I believe.

Eve Zibart

#20. My heart was beating so hard that for a second I thought I might pass out. It was like revisiting the hole where you'd once been held in solitary confinement: a force field of muscle-memory-stored pain and toxic energy so palpable I was afraid that if I stayed any longer it might suck me back in.

Heather King

#21. After Chopin's death, Polish patriots cut up his body to take out his heart. They nationalized this poor muscle and buried it in Poland.
A dead person is treated either as trash or as a symbol. Either way, it's the same disrespect to his vanished individuality.

Milan Kundera

#22. Real Dominance isn't always measured in muscle. Nor is it always measured in Intelligence. But rather it is measured... In heart.

Lucian Bane

#23. Though Sebastian wasn't looking at her, he could hear the note of childish defiance in her voice, and it caused a wrench in his heart... a heart that he always believed to be nothing more than an efficient muscle.

Lisa Kleypas

#24. Associational logic," a muscle rarely worked by prose: its "occlusion, or difficulty," she wrote, "healing me, forcing me to privilege my heart, my intuition.

Anonymous

#25. Ghosts will forever put in appearances, as they should. Our illusions have muscle and meaning. The past returns at midnight, in the heart of our dreams, and the rains and the willows forever remind us of the sacrifices we've offered and those we have yet to make.

Tom Piccirilli

#26. Have you ever thought about what protects our hearts?
Just a cage of rib bones and other various parts.
So it's fairly simple to cut right through the mess,
And to stop the muscle that makes us confess

Ingrid Michaelson

#27. I know my mind is made of matter but I need to know exactly what is the matter at it's core? Because my heart is just a muscle and simply put, it's sore.

Ani DiFranco

#28. Muscle mass does not always equal strength. Strength is kindness and sensitivity. Strength is understanding that your power is both physical and emotional. That it comes from the body and the mind. And the heart. - from The Iron

Henry Rollins

#29. Flex that muscle in your heart. The important thing is that it becomes your compass...

Susie Buffett

#30. Carisoprodol. Comes in a white tablet like a big-ass vitamin, 350 mg of muscle liquefier for those tense, recovering athletes and furniture movers. Too much, and those relaxed muscles include your diaphragm, then your heart.

Craig Clevenger

#31. When you peeled back the skin, you were dealing with bone and muscle, blood and nerve endings. It was all the same. She liked the beautiful logic of the circulatory system, the elegance of the neurological, and the fierce warrior spirit of the heart. The body had rules and it had quirks.

Libba Bray

#32. The heart is a river. The act of writing is the moving water that holds the banks apart, keeps the muscle of words flexing so that the reader can be carried along by this movement. To be given space and the chance to leave one's earthly world. Is there any greater freedom than this?

Helen Humphreys

#33. Heart broken-he felt a deep ache in his chest, like that of a sore muscle, and each beat of his heart pained him

Christopher Paolini

#34. Courage comes in different forms. There's strength
that's the muscle. But love's the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything.

Nora Roberts

#35. Your heart ... it's a very fragile muscle. You have to take care of it, be old-fashioned about it.

Anne-Marie Duff

#36. He doesn't move a muscle except for his eyes that follow her path as though somehow he can see her contrails. His whole existence revolves around a girl who left his orbit, and he was the one who spun her off her axis.

Kat Kruger

#37. There are some very significant changes in the way the fluids are distributed in our body, the way our heart functions initially, and as well as our bone and muscle.

Laurel Clark

#38. And while these pounds were being shed, while the physiological miracles were occurring with the heart and muscle and metabolism, psychological marvels were taking place as well. Just so, the world over, bodies, minds, and souls are constantly being born again, during miles on the road.

George Sheehan

#39. I go to the gym four times a week for 45 minutes to an hour without fail; I like using weights for muscle tone and the bike and rower for my heart rate. I do quite a lot of floor exercises.

Marie Helvin

#40. When our hearts open, when we know that we are in fact the world, when we experience the pain of others in our own blood and muscle, we are feeling compassion.

Ram Dass

#41. It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day without another familiar face staring back. It turns your heart into a purposeless muscle.

David Levithan

#42. The heart is a very, very resilient little muscle. It really is.

Woody Allen

#43. I wish to stay drenched
forever
in those rain-blue eyes
in those...soul-reaching crystals

not moving a muscle
nor breathing
just
savoring
this turquoise ache
against my heart.

Sanober Khan

#44. The heart is a generous muscle.

Sharon Salzberg

#45. Home was where the heart was and Grace's heart was a hunk of muscle that worked just fine on its own.

Jonathan Kellerman

#46. I know I feel like Gulliver sometimes, weighed down by little men. There are so many people in this house, I'm a queen bee, with every muscle dragging. I'm the heart of a cluster, black, dripping, sucking, hanging.

Enid Bagnold

#47. If you want it to be, your heart can be your biggest and most powerful muscle in your body.

Robert Cheeke

#48. The heart is a muscle, and you strengthen muscles by using them. The more I lead with my heart, the stronger it gets.

Mark Miller

#49. I've often said that while gaining muscle can be very difficult, it's also pretty simple - at the heart of it, you just need to take in more energy than you expend, and use an intelligent program. This is especially true for beginners.

John Romaniello

#50. The law of the heart is thus the same as the law of muscular tissue generally, that the energy of contraction, however measured, is a function of the length of the muscle fibre.

Ernest Starling

#51. We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.

Djuna Barnes

#52. He pressed himself into me and kissed my neck, and it was as if everything strong and solid inside me, heart and bones and muscle and gut, softened and melted from the heat of him.

Jennifer Donnelly

#53. I don't like to plan. Very often, for me, acting is like loving; it's using the muscle that you use in loving, in that your heart feels open. Physically, you feel open. And so therefore your job is to enter, open, and listen. And see what happens.

Susan Sarandon