Questions Of The Heart Quotes

#1. I write because I'm in love with language; because I like working for myself, inside my head; and because it's the only way I know to make a stab at answering the never-ending questions of the heart that arise simply from the everyday living of our lives.

Julia Glass

#2. We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it will provide are in nobody's pocket ... We should let nobody tell us that they know all that it contains, or try to prescribe or constrain in advance what it has to tell us.

Eamon Duffy

#3. He looked at me intently, from what seemed behind the veil of a grave experience. Then slowly and prophetically, he said the scariest thing I'd ever heard: Because the answer to a heartfelt question, Jack, will always break your heart.

Thomas H. Cook

#4. Eve of Darkness is a sizzling, heart-pounding urban fantasy that thrilled and fascinated me from beginning to end. It's got smokin' hot angels, blood-chilling demons, and questions that go deeper than who's kicking whose butt. Eve is a smart, spirited heroine I won't soon forget!

Jeri Smith-Ready

#5. I am an advocate for going to the doctor and going every year. I make sure that part of the checkup is spent talking about my heart with my doctor, and getting my numbers checked, and discussing the results. And I make sure that I understand the answers to my questions.

Andie MacDowell

#6. When you're a confused 19-year-old filled with questions you can't even articulate and a kind of black rage that feeds at your heart from the moment you wake up in the morning, and you discover Marcus Aurelius' 'The Meditations,' that changes your life.

Nic Pizzolatto

#7. Questions are the important thing, answers are less important. Learning to ask a good question is the heart of intelligence. Learning the answer-well, answers are for students. Questions are for thinkers.

Roger Schank

#8. Freedom to speak and write about public questions is as important to the life of our government as is the heart to the human body. In fact, this privilege is the heart of our government. If that heart be weakened, the result is debilitation; if it be stilled, the result is death.

Hugo Black

#9. I love fiction. I like reading short stories. Cupcakes, pop songs, Polaroids, and short stories. They all raise and answer questions in a short space. I like Lorrie Moore. Amy Hempel. Tim O'Brien. Raymond Carver. All the heartbreakers.

Laurel Nakadate

#10. I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

Michael Sheen

#11. My heart like gravy or a growing vine the ocean reef, the new bird's song Who needs to hear a word a whisper forever forever or never never ask no questions, it will be tomorrow soon.

Laura Schaefer

#12. Agree and freely switch on the heart that will take "no" as an answer to some questions.

Israelmore Ayivor

#13. How do I tell you what my heart's been telling me?

Deana Carter

#14. When I want to really get to know someone, I ask three questions. People's answers to these give me great insight into someone's heart. The questions are: What do you dream about? What do you sing about? What do you cry about?

John C. Maxwell

#15. Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

Isabel Allende

#16. When I address admitted students each spring, I ask them to consider two questions: Why would Harvard be the right place for the person I am? Why would it be the right place for the person that I want to become? These questions, in my mind, get at the heart of any admissions process.

Drew Gilpin Faust

#17. When profound questions are asked of the heart, the answers are best kept to yourself.

Dan O'Brien

#18. You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#19. Thinking happens in your heart. Put your attention in your heart. Ask the questions from your heart. Then listen to your heart.

Amanda Gore

#20. The heart can't beat next to a mind full of questions.

C.M. Rayne

#21. In a business like his, there was no room for heart, no room for weakness, no room for questions. Only the day-to-day struggle to keep his territory safe and his ass bulletproof.

Avril Ashton

#22. Why was I chosen?'
'Such questions cannot be answered,' said Gandalf. 'You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#23. The mind knows no answers. The heart knows no questions.

Bronnie Ware

#24. Ours was a hard love. We'd fallen hard into it, and we'd fought hard to keep it. Our kind of love didn't ask nicely. It took. It ravaged. It consumed the heart whole and asked questions later. The rewards were soul-deep and all-consuming, sweeping through like a wildfire.

Meredith Wild

#25. I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.

Rainn Wilson

#26. In Korea, math moved fluidly. When the teacher asked questions, the kids answered as if math were a language that they knew by heart. As in Tom's class in Poland, calculators weren't allowed, so kids had learned mental tricks to manipulate numbers quickly.

Amanda Ripley

#27. Don't do that," he says. "Don't ask me questions you already know the answers to. Twice I've laid myself bare to you and all it's gotten me was a bullet wound and a broken heart. Don't torture me," he says, meeting my eyes again.
"It's a cruel thing to do, even to someone like me.

Tahereh Mafi

#28. At the heart of my metaphysic there is the ultimate question and at the heart of the universe there is the ultimate questioner.

Kedar Joshi

#29. Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

Mitch Albom

#30. The head has no answers, and the heart has no questions, Jack would say.
Quoting his teacher and good friend Jack Kakakaway

Richard Wagamese

#31. Libraries shelter the spirit, provide food for the mind, and answer the questions raised by the problems of life. They have been the home of my heart since I was a very young child, in whatever place I happened to live.

Roberta Gellis

#32. The most important thing is to live an interesting life. Keep your eyes, ears and heart open. Talk to people and visit interesting places, and don't forget to ask questions. To be a writer you need to drink in the world around you so it's always there in your head.

Michael Morpurgo

#33. And my heart is breaking
My heart is lying on the floor in a pool of tears
I keep asking the same questions only to have them unanswered

Paula Heller Garland

#34. It began with your eyes cast down, and mine looking right at you,
I watched you rule out hundreds of questions and accept only mine. I poured my stories into your eager heart, and you sparked faith inside the stubbornness of mine. Our beginning was written in the stars - how could it not be?

Emalynne Wilder

#35. All questions need to be explored from our hearts first & then embraced by our heads.

Andrea T. Goeglein

#36. This was what it was about. The feeling as if your heart beat right out of your chest and into theirs. Like you couldn't take another breath without the,. As if everything inside united and there were no questions. No uncertainties.

Nashoda Rose

#37. Art can no longer be art today if it does not reach into the heart of our present culture and work transformatively within it that is, an art which cannot mould society - and through this naturally operate upon the core questions of our society - is not art.

Joseph Beuys

#38. You shouldn't ask questions when you know at heart you'd prefer not to hear the answers.

Julie Anne Long

#39. Curiosity-inspired questions bring clarity to your heart and help you see the pathway you're meant to travel.

Kami Guildner

#40. My head questions everything and believes nothing."
"So your head wants proof and your heart wants reassurance?

J. Sterling

#41. We'd rather have a grand spectacle of retribution of the 'wicked', than their silent walk towards redemption that our wishes questions the depth and nature of our love and hearts.

Ufuoma Apoki

#42. Your mind has a flood of questions.
There is but one teacher
Who can answer them.
Who is that teacher?
Your silence-loving heart.

Sri Chinmoy

#43. Questions are the heart and soul of constructive conflict. They open up the exploration, bring in new information, and reframe debate. When

Margaret Heffernan

#44. You can't legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.

Athol Fugard

#45. In order to really understand, we need to listen, not reply. We need to listen long and attentively. In order to help anybody to open his heart we have to give him time, asking only a few questions, as carefully as possible in order to help him better explain his experience.

Paul Tournier

#46. Strength means ... acknowledging each of those feelings, your questions and ideas and faith and terror, and meeting what comes with the full force of your heart.

Brenda Shaughnessy

#47. Love is the answer
At least for most of the questions in my heart
Why are we here and where do we go
And how come it's so hard

Jack Johnson

#48. There is a place deep inside every single on of our hearts that knows all the answers to our biggest questions.

Rohit Sharma

#49. Many of my questions still remain unanswered, many of my fears still remain as shadows. Allow me to know the questions in my heart, allow me to remove the shadows from my vision.
Read more,
A Daughter's Worth novel

Michelle Carithers

#50. It is strange the way trauma deadens curiosity. To suffer cruelty in excess is to be delivered from care. The human heart sets aside its questions when the future is too capricious. This is the irony of tribulation.
To know the world will never be so bad.

R. Scott Bakker

#51. Have patience with everything unresolved in you heart and try to love the questions themselves. It is possible to live and not know.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#52. The night came stealing my heart away, a million sparkling diamonds and the call of the coyote. Lost in an endless eternity of questions, only darkened clouds for paths. The edge breaks a golden seal, a blazing sun announcing a new day's miracle. Ann DeMarle

Kim Weiss

#53. For now, I look to God, for I know He will respond to my questions. For I believe, in the deepest part of my heart, that He shall truly bring us into a frame of mind where we may hear His greatest responses . . . Perhaps not the final answers, but at the very least, the next response we need.

Alexandra Silber

#54. My heart stutters - not why? or how? - those are not the important questions. The really important question is: by whom?

Beth Revis

#55. What is a godly pastor, after all, but one who is like God, with a heart of grace; someone who sees God bringing prodigals home and runs to embrace them, weeps for joy that they have been brought home, and kisses them - asking no questions - no qualifications or conditions required?

Sinclair B. Ferguson