Heart Quotes

"There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

"Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind"

Leo Rosten, Novelist

"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"By blood a king, in heart a clown"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

"Purity of heart is to will one thing"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon"

Maya Angelou, Poet

"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded"

Maya Angelou, Poet

"A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune"

Horace, Poet

"The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making"

Lillian Smith, Novelist

"What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart"

J.D. Salinger, Novelist

"If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

"Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said"

Mel Gibson, Actor

"If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence"

George Eliot, Author

"A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe"

George Eliot, Author

"I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ"

Thomas Merton, Author

"If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn"

Earl Warren, Judge

"And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes"

James Joyce, Novelist

"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together"

Julia Roberts, Actress

"The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action"

Raymond Holliwell, Author

"Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

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