Top 100 Own Heart Quotes
#1. May she play the Drums to the fiery rhythm of her Own Heart with the sinewy strength of her Own Arms, so she need Not Lie With Drummers.
Tina Fey
#2. The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to know her own heart, to stop waiting for life to begin.
Caroline Knapp
#3. Though you read a hundred volumes without a pause,
you won't remember a single point without a Divine decree;
but if you serve God and read not a single book,
you'll learn rare sciences within your own heart.
~ Mevlana aka Rumi
Mevlana
#4. A male after my own heart. And don't knock perversion, you judgmental little fuck. You never know when you might find it appealing.
J.R. Ward
#5. This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
Juvenal
#6. The eyes of his friends told him that he was falling. His own heart told him so. But the air through which he rushed was his prison.
James Baldwin
#7. My own heart is in my characters. My novels are my memories; they are the best part of me.
Gabrielle Dubois
#8. Do you think, Sam, that even if it were only my own heart at risk, I could pour it into your hands again?"
"Then just take mine. I'm not doing anything else with it.
Nora Roberts
#9. God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.
George Sand
#10. When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
Woodrow Wilson
#11. 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.
Friedrich Schiller
#12. To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness
Confucius
#13. What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.
Mark Twain
#14. No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.
Eric Hoffer
#15. The riper he is for glory, the more, like the ripe corn, he hangs down his head. The brighter and clearer is his light, the more he sees of the shortcomings and infirmities of his own heart. When first converted, he would tell you he saw but little of them compared to what he sees now. Would
J.C. Ryle
#16. There is no truth
Saving in thine own heart.
-from The Song of the Happy Shepherd
W.B.Yeats
#17. Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.
Karen Armstrong
#19. It must be those brief moments when nothing has happened - nor is going to. Tiny moments, like islands in the ocean beyond the grey continent of our ordinary days. There, sometimes, you meet your own heart like someone you've never known.
Hans Borli
#20. Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.
Anne Frank
#21. Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You ...
Jan Karon
#22. And when the moment came, even then Genji would be fortunate. He would die without fear, drenched in his own heart's blood, in the embrace of a beautiful woman, and she would weep for him.
What samurai could hope for more?
Takashi Matsuoka
#23. A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.
Oliver Goldsmith
#24. Fate always wins, for our own heart within us Imperiously furthers its designs.
Friedrich Schiller
#25. A Great Work of Art is one that truly moves and inspires you. You yourself must be moved. Don't look at art with others' eyes. Don't listen to music with others' ears. You must react to art with your own feelings, your own heart and mind.
Daisaku Ikeda
#26. And once Ive learnt to hold my own heart, I can conquer the feeling of yours.
Nikki Rowe
#27. A woman after my own heart. (Stryker)
You're absolutely right about that. Nothing would please me more than ripping that organ out of you and feasting on it. (Zephyra)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#28. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in a while, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases.
Haruki Murakami
#29. You're not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You're only playing.
Catherynne M Valente
#31. What if I told you I'm incapable of tolerating my own heart?
Virginia Woolf
#32. She's a girl after my own heart. Food first, conversation later.
Kelly Risser
#33. There is no way of learning of God except through the adventure of our own heart.
Caryll Houselander
#34. Ask yourself, 'who is the one suffering from this anger? The person who has harmed me has gone on to live their life (or perhaps has died), while I am the one sitting here feeling the persecution, burning and constriction of anger. Out of compassion for myself, to ease my own heart, may I let go.
Sharon Salzberg
#35. Many, whose hearts are conquered by acute spite, roll out balanced tales from their own heart, which do not balance when you weigh words against deeds.
Lucius Accius
#36. Please stop looking at me, she thought, afraid of his eyes and terrified of her own heart.
Paullina Simons
#37. At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.
Confucius
#38. The calligraphy reads, "Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha." Listening to talks about the dharma, or the teachings of Buddha, or practicing meditation is nothing other than studying ourselves.
Pema Chodron
#39. I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.
Cassandra Clare
#41. Smoke the weed of your own heart to fly higher
Munia Khan
#42. Lord, soften his arrogance and temper and intemperate habits. Make him a man after Your own heart . . . because somehow, against my will and surely Yours, he's stolen mine.
Laura Frantz
#43. The thing about having friends who are as close as blood, as true as your own heart, as the twins had been to her, is you don't bother much with other people. And if you have the misfortune to get left behind, well, you've made yourself a lonely nest to live in.
Laini Taylor
#44. My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it cost her dearly. Late in her life, she was furious that she had not followed her own heart; she thought that it had ruined her life, and I think she was right.
Ruth Reichl
#45. There is no better means of promoting another person's change of heart than allowing our own heart to be changed.
C. Terry Warner
#47. When you are in love with a man or a woman, the love you feel does not come from him or her; it is the love flowing from you own heart that you feel. Your partner is simply giving you an excuse to love. Love is always found flowing in your heart, not in your family, lover, career or art.
David Deida
#48. The Wine of Love
The wine of Love is music,
And the feast of Love is song:
And when Love sits down to the banquet,
Love sits long:
Sits long and ariseth drunken,
But not with the feast and the wine;
He reeleth with his own heart,
That great rich Vine.
James Thomson
#49. Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort - you deserve this. You have killed yourself.
Emily Bronte
#50. But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
Amelia Barr
#51. to elevate the race of humankind. To endow each individual with sovereignty over his own heart and to lift the state as a whole to govern itself.
Steven Pressfield
#52. Listen to your own heart and the hearts of the women you know. What is it that a woman wants? What does she dream of?
John Eldredge
#53. All is true, - so true, that every one can discern the elements of the tragedy in his own house, perhaps in his own heart.
Honore De Balzac
#54. Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.
Margaret Atwood
#55. In life most things that frighten us are to do with our own heart and its flaws. You'll always be afraid of some things - never free from fear itself. But that's all right. Fear's like pain, it's there in your life to teach you about yourself.
Lisa Ballantyne
#56. There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out.
Robert Sheckley
#57. The difference between charity and philanthropy is the distance of the soul ... To be philanthropic is to give something, to be charitable is to give one's own heart.
Maya Angelou
#58. Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God.
Saint Francis De Sales
#60. When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment.
Samuel Johnson
#61. When an artist paints a flower, she borrows the beauty from nature and adds fragrance from her own heart.
Debasish Mridha
#62. But back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.
Junot Diaz
#63. You are a most effective killer, Michel. Is it true you wept like a child when they killed your sister? That you cried out in agony as if the sword had pierced your own heart? Such compassion. Does your handiwork not bring you to tears as well?
P.A. Minyard
#64. I practice martial arts not to win over other people but to win over my own heart.
Tony Jaa
#65. Make it your goal to employ the sweet speech that marks you as a wife after God's own heart.
Elizabeth George
#66. Why are you knocking at every door ?
Go, knock at the door of your own heart.
Rumi
#67. Closing my eyes, I find green mountains and pure water within my own heart. Silently sitting alone and drinking tea, I feel these become a part of me.
Soshitsu Sen XV
#68. It doesn't matter how many you surround yourself with daily or how many people say they love you; you'll never no love unless you feel it in your own heart.
C.J. McCoy
#69. If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure
Bob Dylan
#70. The message of 'Zomb-B' is that you have to listen to your own heart and head and question everything. Question stereotypes and the way the world seems or is being presented. Some of the people we should be most concerned about, dangerous right-wing bigots, sound convincing and reasonable.
Darren Shan
#71. There was a silence. Hannah's own heart was twisted with the force of her love for him. Her eyes were full.
L.J.Smith
#72. Why do you eat your own heart? Because, O King, it is bitter, and because it is my heart.
Lilith Saintcrow
#74. The darkness that surrounds us cannot hurt us. It is the darkness in your own heart you should fear.
Silvertris
#75. What have I done?" he asked, his voice raw. "You used to be such a sane, sensible lady."
"You took me on a journey into my own heart.
Shelly Thacker
#76. The world demands that you work for it, make families, provide, take no time to listen to your own heart beating.
Bell Hooks
#77. The difference between love and respect was markedly shown in her conduct. Bathsheba had spoken of her interest in Boldwood with the greatest freedom to Liddy, but she only communed with her own heart concerning Troy.
Thomas Hardy
#78. My own soul is my most faithful friend. My own heart, my truest confidant
Babur
#79. The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in your thoughts, and in the way you act from day to day, in the way you treat other people. It's honesty, and unselfishness, and kindness. Especially kindness.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#80. To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write.
Robert McKee
#81. At Auschwitz, not only man died, but also the idea of man. To live in a world where there is nothing anymore, where the executioner acts as god, as judge-many wanted no part of it. It was its own heart the world incinerated at Auschwitz.
Elie Wiesel
#83. Your opinion should always be based on what you have seen with your own eyes, what you have heard with your own ears and what you have felt with your own heart.
Tanya Masse
#84. Even when I'm writing about shape shifters and magical lands, I'm looking into my own heart.
Kay Kenyon
#85. I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
Wendell Berry
#86. The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
W.B.Yeats
#87. Delicacy and dignity are taught by one's own heart, not by a dancing master.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#88. As she made her way back to the tiny white van she listened to her own breathing and felt her own heart thumping wildly. She had no idea where she had found the courage, but it had been there, like the water at the bottom of a disused quarry
unfathomably deep.
Alexander McCall Smith
#89. If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#90. I want to continue to encourage as many people as I can to open their hearts to life, because if I know anything for sure, it's that opening my own heart is what has brought me my greatest success and joy.
Oprah Winfrey
#91. You have trouble feeling alive, so you stab your own heart just to feel something. It was the emptiness that was killing you. You created the sadness and the fear to fill it.
Yasmin Mogahed
#92. When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.
Confucius
#93. Sometimes you have to get to the heart of a character through your heart. Your own heart. And it's what makes us similar and what makes us different.
Hilary Swank
#94. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.3 What do you see in your own heart?
Edward T. Welch
#95. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart.
Margaret Atwood
#96. I love you so much i can hardly tell my own heart from yours anymore, and I've never said it to another woman in my life as it's never until now been true.
Julie Anne Long
#97. Don't ever love anyone," her mother said, picking the papers up and sliding them into the bureau drawer she'd kept her ring in. "All you'll do is break your own heart.
Matthew Thomas
#99. it is I, I myself, who turn from the good expected to the given good. Out of my own heart I do it. One can conceive a heart which did not: which clung to the good it had first thought of and turned the good which was given it into no good." "I
C.S. Lewis
#100. While you can't keep your heart from getting broken, you can stop breaking your own heart ... once you realize the difference between what you can control and what you can't, and that it's far, far more fun to lavish all that attention on your own self-worth.
Leigh Newman
