The way to the heart is through the ears
~ Katie Hurley.
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.
~ Frederika Bremer
If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
~ Bob Hope
Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.
~ Thomas Fuller
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart. Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
~ Theodore Parker
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
~ Henry Fielding
I’m here to tell you, I’m here to stay
Every hour, every day
Every heartbeat bears your name
Loud and clear, they stake my claim
Ask anyone, and they’ll tell you it’s true
And Every heartbeat belongs to you
~ Amy Grant
One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
~ Albert Camus
Seeds, like hearts must open to grow.
~ Carol Horos
Light breaks where no sun shines;
Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart
Push in their tides.
~ Dylan Thomas
The heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute.
~ Junius
What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.
~ Raoul Dufy
It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power . . . a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.
~ Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
~ Antoine De Saint-exuperyIn prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart.
~ John Bunyan
It is my heart That makes my songs, not I.
~ Sara Teasdale
I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.
~ Katharine Whitehorn
People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
~ Maria Mitchell
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
~ Martin Luther The heart is wiser than the intellect.
~ J.G. Holland
Have a strong mind and a soft heart.
~ Anthony J. D’angelo
Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.
~ Galatians
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
If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart; the spirit should not grow old.
~ James A. Garfield
I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.
~ Tom C. Clark
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely– the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.
~ J. Krishnamutri
To value riches is not to be covetous. They are the gift of God, and, like every gift of his, good in themselves, and capable of a good use. But to overvalue riches, to give them a place in the heart which God did not design them to fill, this is covetousness.
~ H. L. Wayland
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. -Lincoln.
~ Lincoln
Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.
~ Johann Georg Zimmermann
In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.
~ Sir Philip Sidney
The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands.
~ Robert M. Persig
Maybe I could have loved you better. Maybe you should have loved me more. Maybe our hearts were just next in line. Maybe everything breaks sometime.
~ Jewel
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
~ Francois
What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart. What jailer so inexorable as one’s self?
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The way to the heart is through the ears.
~ Katie Hurley
Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.
~ Jean Giraudoux
Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much.
~ Daphine Rose Kingma
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart.
~ Henry Clay
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
~ Jacques Bénigne Bossuel
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
~ Antonio Porchia
The heart has its reasons that reason does not know.
~ Pascal
The great man is he that does not lose his child’s heart.
~ Menicus
To live and let live, without clamour for distinction or recognition; . . . to write truth first on the tablet of one’s own heart — this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
Love does not only transform our mental/emotional nature, it also involves the physical system of our body which goes through profound changes as well.
~ David Mcarthur
The heart is the first feature of working minds.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
There is a light that shines beyond all things on earth, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens. This is the light that shines in your heart
~ Chandogya Upanishad
A person’s world is only as big as their heart.
~ Tanya A. Moore
As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
~ H. L. Mencken
Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart’s tears can dry at their own pace.
~ Vernon Baker
When the future hinges on the next words that are said, don’t let logic interfere, believe your heart instead.
~ Philip Robison
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.
~ Justice Learned Hand
- “When the future hinges
on the next words that are said,
don’t let logic interfere,
believe your heart instead.”
~ Philip Robison - “You can lead a heart to love, but you can’t make it fall.”~ George Strait
- “The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.”
~ Jiddu KrishnamurtiBeauty
- “Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.”
~ Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) - “Beauty is not in the face; Beauty is a light in the heart.”
~ Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) - “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
~ Helen Keller (1880-1968)
Philosophy
- “The heart has reasons which the reason cannot understand.”
~ Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) - “Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.”
~ Zig Ziglar (1926-) - “The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.”
~ Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
- “That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.”
~ Mevlana Rumi (1207-1273) - “Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.”
~ unknown - “It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.”
~ Anatole France (1844-1924) - “A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.”
~ Levi ben Gershon (1288-1344)
- “Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.”
~ H. Jackson Brown - “All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.”
~ Carlos Castaneda (1931-) - “It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more true and more perfect than art could possibly do.”
~ François de la Rochefoucauld
- “Know in your heart that all things are possible. We couldn’t conceive of a miracle if none had ever happened.”
~ Libbie Fudim - “Put you heart, mind, intellect and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.”
~ Swami Sivananda - “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
~ unknown - “Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”
~ Buddha (563-483 BC) - “He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.”
~ James Allen (1864-1912) - “Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower.”
~ Shigenori Kameoka - “The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands.”
~ Robert M. Pirsig (1928-)
- “True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.”
~ Leanna L. Bartram - “Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) - “He whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
~ Thomas Paine (1737-1809) - “The heart is the first feature of working minds.”
~ Frank Lloyd Wright - “Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”
~ Mevlana Rumi (1207-1273)
Wisdom
- “Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know . . .”
~ William Shakespeare (1564-1616) - “One day with life and heart
Is more than time enough to find a world.”
~ James Lowell (1819-1891) - “The heart must have its time of snow . . . to rest in silence, and then to grow.”
~ unknown - “He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.”
~ Lincoln
Writing
- “Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: “Fool!” said my muse to me, “look in thy heart, and write.”
~ Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) - “In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) - “To live and let live, without clamour for distinction or recognition; . . . to write truth first on the tablet of one’s own heart — this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal.”
~ Mary Baker Eddy
Hope
- “Hope is a strange invention —
A Patent of the Heart —
In unremitting action
Yet never wearing out –”
~ Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Home
- “Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart’s tears can dry at their own pace.”
~ Vernon Baker
Friendship
- “There is no distance too far between friends, for friendship gives wings to the heart.”
~ Kathy Kay Benudiz - “Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.”
~ John Evelyn (1620-1706) - “True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.”
~ unknown - “Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home, sweet home For there the heart can rest.” ~ Henry van Dyke (1852-1933)
Good Hearts
- “A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.”
~ Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) - “A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.”
~ Washington Irving (1783-1859) - “In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.”
~ Antonio Porchia - “Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.”
~ Golda Meir (1898-1978) - “A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.”
~ Mother Teresa (1910-1998) - “When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart-not his head.”
~ unknown - “There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”
~ John Andrew Holmes - “Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.”
~ Henry Clay (1777-1852) - “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
~ Zelda Fitzgerald - “The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of a man.”
~ Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) - “The diurnal sun sets at night, but the sun of the heart never disappears.”
~ ‘Abd al-Kader (1807-1883) - In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.”
~ Antonio Porchia
Music
- “Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy.”
~ Euripides (c. 485-406 BC)
- “Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.”
Miscellaneous
- “There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.”
~ George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) - “The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.”
~ William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) - “A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.”
~ Octavio Paz - “If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.”
~ James Garfield (1831-1881) - “Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh give me back my heart!”
~ Lord Byron (1788-1824) - “The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.”
~ Mignon McLaughlin (1915-)
- “To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.”
~ Theophile Gautier - “I do believe there is many a tear in the heart that never reaches the eyes.”
~ Norman MacEwan - “Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?”
~ William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) - “You don’t die of a broken heart, you only wish you did.”
~ Marilyn Peterson - “Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody’s heart.”
~ Anthony D’Angelo - “Wind to thy wings. Light to thy path. Dreams to thy heart.”
~ unknown - “My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure.”
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) - “It is hard for the face to conceal the thoughts of the heart.”
~ unknown - “Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart.”
~ Charles Dickens (1812-1870) - “All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.”
~ Francis Bacon (1561-1626) - “And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers
Is always the first to be touch’d by the thorns.”
~ Charles Lamb (1775-1834) - “To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.”
~ Margaret Thatcher (1925-) - “Only time can heal your broken heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.”
~ Miss Piggy