Heart Quotes

"Love is space and time measured by the heart"

"I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country"

"Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"All God wants of man is a peaceful heart"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

"A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

"If you want to see a miracle, just open your eyes, your heart, and your soul to the possibility of it all"

Nicolas Cage, Actor

"The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper"

Pablo Casals, Musician

"Yes, I'm a Judeo-Christian. Jesus and Moses are in my heart, and... both of them were independents, by the way"

Kinky Friedman, Musician

"I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back"

Erica Jong, Novelist

"We've got our own daylight to get bad thoughts away, and we talk with that light - our star in our heart. We take away what's unimportant"

Indra Devi, Celebrity

"The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood"

Alice Meynell, Poet

"You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance"

Paul Tournier, Author

"Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?"

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. "In the Mood for Love," though, reached all the way to my belly"

Zhang Ziyi, Actress

"When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process, which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams"

Jacques Barzun, Educator

"Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!"

Bobby Darin, Musician

"There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

"Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions"

Laurence Sterne, Novelist

"In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable"

Madame de Stael, Writer

"Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise not blame"

Thomas Kempis, Writer

"Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery"

Warren G. Bennis, Psychologist

"Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another"

Homer, Poet

"I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

"I took it to heart that in order to be a good person, you never said anything mean about anybody"

Carly Simon, Musician

"All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best"

Andrew Carnegie, Businessman

"Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe"

Homer, Poet

"The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become"

James Lane Allen, Author

"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another"

Homer, Poet

"Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point"

Maria Callas, Musician

"I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself"

Laurence Olivier, Actor

"With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!"

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Writer

"You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart"

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Writer

"Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey"

Anna Julia Cooper, Educator

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