Top 100 Quotes About The Heart
#1. I am a philosopher in the natural sciences. Matters of the heart I leave to the poets, but it has occurred to me, as a failed poet myself, that the cruelest aspect of love is its inviolable integrity. We do not choose to love - or I should say, we cannot choose not to love. Do you understand?
Rick Yancey
#2. Tradition is what is in the heart and soul of your home, your country, and social environment. Tradition evolves, and it changes regardless of what you do to maintain it.
George Blake
#3. At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
Dallas Willard
#4. If we in the church want a cause to fight, let's fight sin. Let's reveal its hideousness. Let's show that Jeremiah was correct when e said: "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked" [Jeremiah 17:9 NKJV].
Billy Graham
#5. In the heart or every caregiver is a knowing that we are all connected. As I do for you, I do for me.
Tia Walker
#6. It is a dangerous error, surely very widespread among Christians, to think that the heart can pray by itself.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#7. Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
Damon Albarn
#8. Still, it's better to be distracted by the crowd than to be left with memories that serve no purpose other than to torture the conscience and flog the heart.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#9. At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done
Simone Weil
#10. The human heart, no matter what age, will only open to the heart that opens in return.
Julie Klassen
#11. Indigo sky, because the heart is also a sunset.
Gwen Calvo
#12. It's much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what's important to you about your message and speak from the heart.
Nicholas Boothman
#14. The heart has a lot more to offer than your mind.
Joyeaux
#16. The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left.
Anonymous
#18. There is a wonderful ancient Sufi saying which I'm going to paraphrase slightly. It says, 'When the heart weeps for what it has lost,' in this case 'heart' means 'ego,' 'when the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit rejoices for what it has found.'
Eckhart Tolle
#19. Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.
Paulo Coelho
#20. We don't care if you're wearing a suit or a T-shirt and jeans. What we care about is the condition of the heart." Gary Davis, Church in the Wind
David Putman
#21. What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion ... if no one loved, the sun would go out.
Victor Hugo
#22. I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.
Robert Bloch
#23. Not playing by the rules, not seeing things conventionally, that's the heart of who he [ Steve Jobs] is, and he does it in small ways of everyday rebellion just almost to assert who he is, like not putting a license plate on his car.
Walter Isaacson
#24. The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy.
Edgar Allan Poe
#26. When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#27. They are boiling with the pressured energy of explosive forces confined in a small space, and with the fervor of all religious movements in their early, purist stages. It is not enough to give lip service and to believe in equal pay: there has to be a conversion, from the heart. Or so they imply.
Margaret Atwood
#28. Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.
David Wilkerson
#29. Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone accept, His Lordship. The Cross, as it enters the love life, will reveal the heart's truth.
Elisabeth Elliot
#30. The desires of the heart ... are as crooked as a corkscrew.
Robert Stone
#31. To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
Henrik Ibsen
#32. Your relationship with Allah, depends on the heart being clean.
Nouman Ali Khan
#33. Kind of prayer we here speak of as properly "monastic" (though it may also fit into the life of any lay person who is attracted to it) is a prayer of silence, simplicity, contemplative and meditative unity, a deep personal integration in an attentive, watchful listening of "the heart.
Thomas Merton
#34. [Tom] Wolfe's books offered a whole new world to step into, and whilst at times you could accuse him of being somewhat long-winded, he had an incredible quality of prose and a bravery of writing from the heart. He believed in being autobiographical at all times.
Jude Law
#35. The Quest not only begins in the heart but also ends there.
Paul Brunton
#36. There is a place born of silence
A place where the whispers of the heart arise.
There is a place where voices sing your beauty
A place where every breath
carves your image
in my soul.
[465, translated by Jonathan Star, - In the Arms of the Beloved]
Rumi
#37. To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,
To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
Alexander Pope
#38. We shall always place education side by side with instruction; the mind will not be cultivated at the expense of the heart. While we prepare useful citizens for society, we shall likewise do our utmost to prepare citizens for heaven.
Basil Moreau
#39. No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is in the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has
Henry Ward Beecher
#40. Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.
Mineko Iwasaki
#41. Delayed answers often set the heart searching itself, and so lead to contrition and spiritual reformation - deadly
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#42. She's sick and she's been treated badly, but she can't be gone. She had the heart of a lion.
Kristin Hannah
#43. Look at those beautiful villages, in the heart of nature." Evans was staring out the window but saw only poverty. The
Michael Crichton
#44. the heart of care is empathy, a feeling and enactment of intentional regard for the well-being of others and by extension the support systems (e.g., universal health care and a living wage) that insure well-being.
Donna King
#45. It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the heart-wrenching experience of seeing the animal you love move inexorably toward death.
Jon Katz
#46. The heart of mathematics consists of concrete examples and concrete problems. Big general theories are usually afterthoughts based on small but profound insights; the insights themselves come from concrete special cases.
Paul Halmos
#47. Now and again there's a moment,
when the heart cries aloud:
yes, I am willing to be
that wild darkness,
that long, blue body of light.
Mary Oliver
#48. I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#49. The heart may be weak. And sometimes it may even give in. But I've learned that deep down, there's a light that never goes out!
Tetsuya Nomura
#50. Feel the kiss of ocean breeze,
Hear the song of dancing wave
Let your soul fly away with seagulls
To fill the heart with the joy of life.
Debasish Mridha
#51. I like how pure the expression is in music. You can go straight to the heart of an audience rather than through their brain.
John C. Reilly
#52. Helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas.
Ole Hallesby
#53. It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.
Robert Cormier
#54. Marriage is a formality, a legal bondage. Love is of the heart; marriage is of the mind. That's why I am never in favor of marriage.
Rajneesh
#55. The heart," he said, "is half criminal. The trick is to be vigilant. To keep your eyes open, so if you get a look at this side of yourself you can make a positive ID.
Adam Ross
#56. Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit.
Timothy Zahn
#57. The heart of a man can never be satisfied with the things of this world. It is always empty, and hungry, and thirsty, and dissatisfied, till it comes to Christ. It is only they who hear Christ's voice, and follow Him, and feed on Him by faith, who are 'filled.'.
J.C. Ryle
#58. Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.
Reynolds Price
#59. The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival.
Leo Buscaglia
#60. The customer demands simplicity, that organizations organize around them. Easy to use is a customer tsunami ripping across the world. Ease of use and simplicity must now be at the heart of organizational strategy.
Gerry McGovern
#61. After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone.
Henry Bromell
#62. Patience is no small, fell-good personal quality. It is at the heart of diplomacy and civility, lawfulness and civil order. Without it, people can't work together and society can't function at all. With it, we create the possibility of peace between people and between nations.
M.J. Ryan
#63. The hands can build a structure, but it is the heart that brings forth the meaning to fill it.
L.M. Browning
#64. If a song is a living, breathing entity, you might think of the tempo as its gait - the rate at which it walks by - or its pulse - the rate at which the heart of the song is beating.
Daniel J. Levitin
#65. Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experience.
Brene Brown
#66. Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Kahlil Gibran
#67. There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the heart of that struggle.
Bill Moyers
#68. Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country roads. Home is where the heart is. But my heart is here. So I must be home. Clare sighs, turns her head, and is quiet. Hi, honey. I'm home. I'm home.
Audrey Niffenegger
#69. Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession ... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a choice that shouldn't be. The heart of radical feminism is to change that
Vivian Gornick
#70. He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.
Swami Vivekananda
#71. Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the heart of the woman, and brings forth [gems] of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession.
Anna Cora Mowatt
#72. And the National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill people, people do," but I think the gun helps, you know? I think it helps. I just think just standing there going, "Bang!"
"That's not going to kill too many people, is it? You'd have to be really dodgy on the heart to have that ...
Eddie Izzard
#73. Grace, lavished upon us by God and communicated through the Mystery of the Incarnate Word, is an absolutely free gift with which nature is healed, strengthened and assisted in pursuing the innate desire for happiness in the heart of every man and of every woman.
Pope Benedict XVI
#74. Stress is a form of suffering. Look at your body and see what stress does to the body and its functions - what it does to the heart, the circulation, the immune system, the digestive function, the liver.
Eckhart Tolle
#75. Magic Words"
"Silly words cause trills
because they're ludicrous and funny.
Happy words paint endless smiles
and swallow troubles whole.
Thoughtful words are thus
because they make the day feel sunny.
But hurtful words are such
that pierce the heart and weigh the soul.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#76. Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the heart and soul of patriotism.
John F. Kerry
#77. I'm always so pleased when I can get a song or be given a song that really speaks to me and I can interpret, but if given the opportunity to really write from the heart and try and bring some personality to whatever this genre would be, it was a great opportunity for me.
Josh Groban
#78. There are times when nothing holds the heart but a long, long look at Calvary. How very small anything that we are allowed to endure seems beside that Cross.
Amy Carmichael
#79. Things might look bad now,but in matters of the heart you'd be surprised how quickly things change.
David Baldacci
#80. Mortals have always exaggerated the difference between hate and love. Both come from the heart. You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.
Christopher Pike
#82. I want to put the joy of creativity, of drawing every day, of having a go and being surprised at what one can achieve with just a pencil and an idea at the heart of my term as laureate. I want to make sure people have fun whilst addressing fundamental issues I care about passionately.
Chris Riddell
#83. Truth is the heart of the song, Rat. If you cannot hear truth, you cannot hear anything.
Anthony Ryan
#84. I pretended for a moment_ and only for a moment_ that I was the person she was making room for. That the hand she held up reached for me. That the heart thumping in her chest beat for me and me alone. I allowed myself that split second of weakness.
Brodi Ashton
#85. Eighth letter : The purpose of life is to love
How well you live comes to how much you love. The heart is wiser than the head. Honor it. Trust it follow it.
Robin S. Sharma
#86. Being angry at the mistakes made by the heart will only leave you bitter.
Jamie Magee
#87. There was thin, reverberating silence; the sort of delicately plucked note that isn't heard, but felt in the heart.
Kirsty Eagar
#88. I speak from the heart. Certain people follow lyricists and people that put words on a dictionary together, and this and that. I'm more of a rapper that speaks how I feel. I just tell it how it is.
French Montana
#90. Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
Rachel Johnson
#91. Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy - essential to keeping it alive.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#92. I have tasted but little bread in my life. It has been mere grub and provender for the most part. Of bread that nourished the brain and the heart, scarcely any. There is absolutely none on the tables even of the rich.
Henry David Thoreau
#93. The disposition of the heart is man's, but the preparation of the tongue is the Lord's." [Prov. 16:1, 9, conflated.] It is an absurd folly that miserable men take it upon themselves to act without God, when they cannot even speak except as he wills!
John Calvin
#94. Don't women think that all men are jerky twelve-year-olds at heart?" "Hey, if the heart fits.
Gillian Flynn
#95. The body's weakness comes from illnesses, while the heart's weakness comes from sins. And just as the body does not taste the delights of food when it is ill, the heart does not taste the delights of worship when it is sinful.
Dhul-Nun Al-Misri
#96. These things are not glorified, just recorded. Tattooed on the heart; burned into the family's history. This piecing together of the life of your child; this homage, this attempt to put it all in order; and even though you will one day wish for the heartbreak to leave you, it never will.
Whitney Otto
#97. Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other." "And between the two is the lump in the throat,
Louise Penny
#99. Religion may become a fashion as well as anything else; and, when it does become so, it has as little to do, in those who thus hold it, with the heart and the character as any other fashion.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis
#100. Who ever said the heart was smart or that it followed directions?
Kylie Scott
