Heart Quotes

Most popular heart quotes

"To find the balance you want," Ketut spoke through his translator, "this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have four legs, instead of two. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God." - Elizabeth Gilbert quote.
"To find the balance you want," Ketut spoke through his translator, "this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have four legs, instead of two. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God."
The heart is forever inexperienced. - Henry David Thoreau quote.
The heart is forever inexperienced.
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart. - Mahatma Gandhi quote.
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

head and heart

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there? - Gautama Buddha quote.
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart. - Maya Angelou quote.
All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart.

art

The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labor. The human heart is so robust, so tough, that once encouraged it beats its rhythm with a loud unswerving insistency. - Maya Angelou quote.
The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labor. The human heart is so robust, so tough, that once encouraged it beats its rhythm with a loud unswerving insistency.

encouragement

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Nobody has ever measured, even the poets, how much a heart can hold. - Zelda Fitzgerald quote.
Nobody has ever measured, even the poets, how much a heart can hold.
All that is worth cherishing in this world begins in the heart, not the head.
If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. - Bob Hope quote.
If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

Giving charity

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. - John Bunyan quote.
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

spiritual prayer religious

If the human species has been able to make any progress, it is because of our heart of love and compassion. - Thích Nhất Hạnh quote.
If the human species has been able to make any progress, it is because of our heart of love and compassion.

buddhist

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. - Zelda Fitzgerald quote.
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Measured with magnetic field meters, the electromagnetic field that the heart produces is some five thousand times more powerful than that created by the brain.

sciency

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. - Blaise Pascal quote.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own. - Willa Cather quote.
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.

relationships understanding others

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews. - Wystan Auden quote.
The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews.

desire

Gratitude is the heart's memory.
— French proverb

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The heart has reasons that the reason knows not of. - Blaise Pascal quote.
The heart has reasons that the reason knows not of.

head and heart

The human heart harbors two conflicting sentiments.  Everyone of course sympathizes with people who suffer misfortunes. Yet when those people manage to overcome their misfortunes, we feel a certain disappointment.  We may even feel (to overstate the case somewhat) a desire to plunge them back into those misfortunes. And before we know it, we come (if only passively) to harbor some degree of hostility toward them.

misfortune

The heart, especially the Jewish heart, is a fiddle: you pull the strings, and out come songs, mostly plaintive. - Sholom Aleichem quote.
The heart, especially the Jewish heart, is a fiddle: you pull the strings, and out come songs, mostly plaintive.
When the heart is full, the eyes overflow. - Sholom Aleichem quote.
When the heart is full, the eyes overflow.

tears

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try. - Louise Erdrich quote.
We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

understanding others

Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts.  In its icy, black depths swell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb. - Sue Grafton quote.
Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts.  In its icy, black depths swell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb.
My heart is like the ocean,
With tempest, ebb, and flow,
And many pearls full precious
Lie in its depths below. - Heinrich Heine quote.
My heart is like the ocean,
With tempest, ebb, and flow,
And many pearls full precious
Lie in its depths below.
When the heart is narrow, the tongue is wide. - Solomon Ibn Gabirol quote.
When the heart is narrow, the tongue is wide.
A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn't protect itself and it doesn't hide.  It stands out like a baby's fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through. - Anne Lamott quote.
A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn't protect itself and it doesn't hide.  It stands out like a baby's fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
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The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven. - Martin Luther quote.
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
There is a chord in every human heart than has a sigh in it if touched aright.
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.
O! Many a shaft at random sent
Finds mark the archer little meant!
And many a word, at random spoken,
May soothe or wound a heart that's broken. - Sir Walter Scott quote.
O! Many a shaft at random sent
Finds mark the archer little meant!
And many a word, at random spoken,
May soothe or wound a heart that's broken.

words

Most things break, including hearts.  The lessons of a life amount not to wisdom but to scar tissue and callus. - Wallace Stegner quote.
Most things break, including hearts.  The lessons of a life amount not to wisdom but to scar tissue and callus.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan.  You should wear it inside, where it functions best.

politics

Never Offer Your Heart to Someone who Eats Hearts. - Alice Walker quote.
Never Offer Your Heart to Someone who Eats Hearts.
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom? - Kahlil Gibran quote.
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart. - Robert Breault quote.
Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart.