“Sweetheart, darling, dearest, it was funny to think that these endearments, which used to sound exceedingly sentimental in movies and books, now held great importance, simple but true verbal affirmations of how they felt for each other. They were words only the heart could hear and understand, words that could impart entire pentameter sonnets in their few, short syllables.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“The heart knoweth its own sorrow and there are times when, like David, it is comforting to think that our tears are put in a bottle and not one of them forgotten by the one who leads us in paths of sorrow.”
― Hannah Hurnard, Hinds' Feet on High Places
“I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.”
― Pope John XXIII
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“The heart knoweth its own sorrow and there are times when, like David, it is comforting to think that our tears are put in a bottle and not one of them forgotten by the one who leads us in paths of sorrow.”
― Hannah Hurnard, Hinds' Feet on High Places
“I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.”
― Pope John XXIII
“We must imagine our lives well. We must engage our conscience. Conscience is the voice of God in the nature and heart of man.”
― Laura Kasischke, The Life Before Her Eyes
“You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do...”
― Steven J. Carroll, The Road to Jericho
“If something hurt you, be happy that you have a heart that hurts”
― Ram Mohan
“Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“It was funny the way memory obliged the heart. His happy recollections were always afloat in his soupy subconscious where so many of his darker memories had sunk to the underbelly of his past and been as good as lost forever. But without conscious instruction, memory had edited and enlarged the finest moments of his life and stored them like masterpieces in the private gallery of his personal history.”
― Nanci Kincaid, Eat, Drink, and Be From Mississippi: A Novel
“The heart is natures most immense untapped resource. Utilising the power of the heart is the most significant choice you will make in life.”
― Steven Redhead, Keys to the Laws of Creation
“Am auzit sau am citit că filoanele de aur au uneori la suprafață un înveliș de cuarț, din care e greu să extragi metalul. Presupun că și inima ta are un asemenea înveliș; înăuntru se află metalul prețios, dar afurisita asta de coajă nu s-a topit de tot...”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Fără ideal
“When the heart is dry the eye is dry.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Patanjali says that we can meditate on anything that our heart desires. The important thing is not what we meditate on, but more that we meditate. And then gradually to meditate more and more on what corresponds to the innermost longing of our heart. The practice of meditation . . . gradually works its magic in stilling the mind. (42)”
― Ravi Ravindra, The Wisdom of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide by Ravi Ravindra
“True gratitude can never come
From the mind.
It has to flow from the heart
To the mind, vital and body
Until everything that we have and are
Is a sea of gratitude.”
― Sri Chinmoy, The Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey
“I hold the key to his heart right here." He lifted a briefcase from his side to show her. "All we have to do is wind it up again.”
― Jennifer Hudock, Beauty and Other Dangerous Things
“Verily, those who disbelieve, it is the same to them whether you (O Muhammad Peace be upon him ) warn them or do not warn them, they will not believe.
Allah has set a seal on their hearts and on their hearings, (i.e. they are closed from accepting Allah's Guidance), and on their eyes there is a covering. Theirs will be a great torment.
(The Qur'an. Surah Al -Baqarah:6,7)”
― Anonymous
“Mr. McCleod: And if there’s anything I want you guys to take with you from this class, as you’re abusing your bodies over break, is three things: the heart is the body’s strongest muscle, that the brain has more cells in it than our galaxy has stars, and that the body is 72% water. So wherever you go over vacation, don’t get too dehydrated.”
― Laura Kasischke, The Life Before Her Eyes
“All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable fortress, to be the guardian of my own heart, But he admitted that he could not teach me how or when to allow the fortress to be breached or my heart to be unlocked. It would simply happen, he said. he promised it would, in fact. But how is love to find me, even assuming it is looking?”
― Mary Balogh, A Secret Affair
“Kāda man dīvaina gaume- mīlu es tikai trīs. Tevi, kas bija un nāca, tevi, kas blakus nu stāv, tevi ,ko sirds un prāts meklē un kuras nav.”
― Imants Ziedonis
― Laura Kasischke, The Life Before Her Eyes
“You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do...”
― Steven J. Carroll, The Road to Jericho
“If something hurt you, be happy that you have a heart that hurts”
― Ram Mohan
“Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“It was funny the way memory obliged the heart. His happy recollections were always afloat in his soupy subconscious where so many of his darker memories had sunk to the underbelly of his past and been as good as lost forever. But without conscious instruction, memory had edited and enlarged the finest moments of his life and stored them like masterpieces in the private gallery of his personal history.”
― Nanci Kincaid, Eat, Drink, and Be From Mississippi: A Novel
“The heart is natures most immense untapped resource. Utilising the power of the heart is the most significant choice you will make in life.”
― Steven Redhead, Keys to the Laws of Creation
“Am auzit sau am citit că filoanele de aur au uneori la suprafață un înveliș de cuarț, din care e greu să extragi metalul. Presupun că și inima ta are un asemenea înveliș; înăuntru se află metalul prețios, dar afurisita asta de coajă nu s-a topit de tot...”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Fără ideal
“When the heart is dry the eye is dry.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Patanjali says that we can meditate on anything that our heart desires. The important thing is not what we meditate on, but more that we meditate. And then gradually to meditate more and more on what corresponds to the innermost longing of our heart. The practice of meditation . . . gradually works its magic in stilling the mind. (42)”
― Ravi Ravindra, The Wisdom of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide by Ravi Ravindra
“True gratitude can never come
From the mind.
It has to flow from the heart
To the mind, vital and body
Until everything that we have and are
Is a sea of gratitude.”
― Sri Chinmoy, The Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey
“I hold the key to his heart right here." He lifted a briefcase from his side to show her. "All we have to do is wind it up again.”
― Jennifer Hudock, Beauty and Other Dangerous Things
“Verily, those who disbelieve, it is the same to them whether you (O Muhammad Peace be upon him ) warn them or do not warn them, they will not believe.
Allah has set a seal on their hearts and on their hearings, (i.e. they are closed from accepting Allah's Guidance), and on their eyes there is a covering. Theirs will be a great torment.
(The Qur'an. Surah Al -Baqarah:6,7)”
― Anonymous
“Mr. McCleod: And if there’s anything I want you guys to take with you from this class, as you’re abusing your bodies over break, is three things: the heart is the body’s strongest muscle, that the brain has more cells in it than our galaxy has stars, and that the body is 72% water. So wherever you go over vacation, don’t get too dehydrated.”
― Laura Kasischke, The Life Before Her Eyes
“All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable fortress, to be the guardian of my own heart, But he admitted that he could not teach me how or when to allow the fortress to be breached or my heart to be unlocked. It would simply happen, he said. he promised it would, in fact. But how is love to find me, even assuming it is looking?”
― Mary Balogh, A Secret Affair
“Kāda man dīvaina gaume- mīlu es tikai trīs. Tevi, kas bija un nāca, tevi, kas blakus nu stāv, tevi ,ko sirds un prāts meklē un kuras nav.”
― Imants Ziedonis
“Credeai că aştepţi moartea. Dar inima ta spera. Tot ea avut dreptate. Urmeaz-o. Trebuie să crezi în ceva. Iată: inima ta. Îţi arată un drum. Ridică-te şi du-te. Mai mult nu-ţi cer.”
― Ionel Teodoreanu, Tudor Ceaur Alcaz
“We are built with a passion in our heart for the things we are meant to do.”
― Lights Poxlietner
“But you will exceed all of them. For you will sacrifice the man who bears me. Already your horn has been raised, and your wrath has been kindled, and your star has passed by, and your heart has become strong." [--Jesus to Judas]”
― Rodolphe Kasser, The Gospel of Judas, Critical Edition: Together with the Letter of Peter to Phillip, James, and a Book of Allogenes from Codex Tchacos
“... I looked through the car's rear window for a final wave, and it felt like someone had invaded my chest and squeezed all the juice out of my heart until it was a tiny dry sponge.”
― Karen Tayleur, Love Notes From Vinegar House
“A pure belief can not be forced on human's heart.
If it could, no need for terms such as 'I've told you'.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“You are the only one in my heart that i will never forget”
― Fatma alfalasi
“The curse of men can't make me defiled.
I defile myself if I curse men by intention.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident
“For this, for you, my heart will burn
It whispers to me, what I speak now in turn:
If the sun should hide, let it hide;
If darkness drain the light, on moonbeams we ride.
It matters not,
For I am by your side.
If the sky should fall, let it fall;
If Death open his wings, ignore his dark call;
Let the stars fade, let worlds collide;
Let the seas boil, let chaos hold back the tide.
It matters not,
For you are by my side.”
― Alexis Steinhauer, Dragonfate: Dragon's Flight
“He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling, losing his temper and swearing (mostly to himself).”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Leaf by Niggle
“I've notice that i love you and i cant say ... i just want to know do u love me ?”
― Fatma alfalasi
“Just like science,
there must be other kinds of sensations
which haven't yet been felt
by the human heart at all.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Certainly the heart has always something to tell about the future to those who listen to it. But what does the heart know? Scarce a little of what has already happened. ”
― Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed
“The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.”
― Margaret Atwood, Surfacing
“Excess makes the heart grow fonder...”
― John Balance
“As he was about to climb yet another dune, his heart whispered, "Be aware of the place where you are brought to tears. That's where I am, and thats where your treasure is.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights
“في روح و عقل كل واحد منا شرارة صغيرة ربما تصبح من خلال النفخ فيها" نارًا عظيمة تضيء عقول و قلوب الملايين”
― عبد الكريم بكار
“Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life of Christ
“True genius without heart is a thing of nought - for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make genius. Love! Love! Love! that is the soul of genius.”
― Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
“Maybe I should be still; accept my fate. But I have tasted freedom, known love – I have had choice and learnt what it is to have a human heart, not just a compliant one.”
― Dianna Hardy, 'Til Death Do Us Part
“You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting
“Storytellers are the most powerful people on earth. They might not be the best paid-- but they are the most powerful. Storytellers have the power to move the human heart-- and there is no greater power on earth.”
― Laurie H. Hutzler
“But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell them I didn't give a flying fuck how it was doing in the marketplace, that what I cared about was how it was dong in the reader's heart?”
― Stephen King, Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
“your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before you, I replied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm you play upon me, drumming me taught.”
― Jeanette Winterson
“You shall Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength." ~ Deuteronomy 6:5”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
“She knew herself the heart of a king buried in a sepulchre (in the land of his love) while the body of the king is elsewhere. My heart lies buried in there like Coeur de Lion (or whoever it was) who had his heart buried at Havre (or wherever it was) and the rest of him buried somewhere else.”
― H.D., HERmione
“For though your mind is active enough, your heart is darkened with corruption, and without a pure heart there can be no full or genuine sensibility.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
“Its not the means which we serve God that matters but its the heart that matters”
― bolanle john
“The best part of happiness lies is in the secret heart of a lover.”
― African Proverb, Uganda
“The heart of man and the bottom of the sea are unfathomable.”
― African Proverb
“It’s clear that if we use the mind attentively, mental power is increased, and if we concentrate the mind in the moment, it is easier to coordinate mind and body. But in terms of mind and body unity, is there something we can concentrate on that will reliably aid us in discovering this state of coordination?
In Japan, and to some degree other Asian countries, people have historically focused mental strength in the hara (abdomen) as a way of realizing their full potential. Japan has traditionally viewed the hara as the vital center of humanity in a manner not dissimilar to the Western view of the heart or brain. I once read that years ago Japanese children were asked to point to the origin of thoughts and feelings. They inevitably pointed toward the abdominal region. When the same question was asked of American children, most pointed at their heads or hearts. Likewise, Japan and the West have commonly held differing views of what is physical power or physical health, with Japan emphasizing the strength of the waist and lower body and Western people admiring upper body power. (Consider the ideal of the sumo wrestler versus the V-shaped Western bodybuilder with a narrow waist and broad shoulders.)
However, East and West also hold similar viewpoints regarding the hara, and we’re perhaps not as dissimilar as some might imagine. For instance, hara ga nai hito describes a cowardly person, “a person with no hara.” Sounds similar to our saying that so-and-so “has no guts,” doesn’t it?”
― H.E. Davey, Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation
“He had been dazzled. Because of the dazzling brightness, he had had to kill [Seigen]. All who had encountered Seigen had had their hearts stolen by that brightness. That envy had turned to malice.”
― Takayuki Yamaguchi, Shigurui 15
“She’d said she loved him. She'd put that impossible, unimaginably beautiful gift in his hands and he’d thrown it back at her. To save her. To save himself.”
― V.S. Carnes
“Sirds krūtīs – kalta metāla irbe, kura pret vakaru sadrūp pelnos. Ļaujies laika plūdumam un pamijus rokām, kuras tevi glāstīs un nodos. Kuras tevi darvos un dedzinās.”
― Inga Ābele, Atgāzenes stacijas zirgi
“Her heart was leading her where it belonged. To him.”
― Farrah Naseem
“But that did not stop her heart from shattering into countless pieces or her soul from shredding into slivers.”
― Farrah Naseem
“She looked from the hilt protruding between her breasts into the eyes of the boy she loved. The golden light in them enfolded her and her heart stopped beating, leaving the ghost of her smile on her mouth. Her vacant eyes mirrored something infinitely close to peace.”
― Farrah Naseem
“The head has no answers, and the heart has no questions, Jack would say."
Quoting his teacher and good friend Jack Kakakaway”
― Richard Wagamese, One Story, One Song
“Act of giving something to others is an art of flowering your heart.”
― Vinayak
“Like a broken vase does not fear of breaking once more, my broken heart is not affected by your hurting words anymore!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan, Award Winning Plays -2
“It's very difficult to stay in one's heart as it keeps beating”
― Amit Abraham
“A heart can be shared.
Who decided that a 'broken heart' was a bad thing?”
― Julia Esposito
“You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.”
― Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
“There is a great deal of difference between a penis and a heart.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
“Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen
“In this abundant earth no doubt
Is little room for things worn out:
Disdain them, break them, throw them by!
And if before the days grew rough
We once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough,
I think, we've far'd, my heart and I.” ― Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive and feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just as one is good, another is bad.” ― Roman Payne, Cities & Countries
“I have the heart of a lion, and the circulatory system of a lamb.
”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
“My heart feels not so much in my chest as in my hands. I am carrying it along swiftly, as though I have become the messenger for what is going on inside me.”
― Claire Keegan
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
“Is your heart a sponge or a fist?”
― Téa Obreht
“Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.'
'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
“I realized that the good stories were affecting the organs of my body in various ways, and the really good ones were stimulating more than one organ. An effective story grabs your gut, tightens your throat, makes your heart race and your lungs pump, brings tears to your eyes or an explosion of laughter to your lips.”
― Christopher Vogler, The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers
“Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.”
― Jean Jacques Rousseau
“The books talked about it [the heart] as if it were a sump pump stuck down in the muck and mire of somebody’s backyard. Never in all my scientific reading did I encounter anything that talked about a broken heart. Never did I read anything about what the heart felt, how it felt or why it felt. Feeling and knowing weren’t important, only understanding”
― Charles Martin
“I look into my heart and see the abyss looking back at me.'
'I won't let you fall.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Kiss
“She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She didn't trust anyone with her heart - or the darker places of her soul.”
― Christine Feehan, Turbulent Sea
“Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.”
― Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays
“There were times of hardship when people forget the courage they need to keep fighting; and survive. But I think as long as we have something to believe in; to keep close in our hearts, courage will never truly leave us. We only have to reach deep in our heart to find it.”
― Sakura
“Please, no one touch my heart. Don't touch it. Don't notice anything. No one has to know what my heart is feeling. I decided that I wouldn't turn back. That's why I threw everything away. So, don't you ever say, "I'm lonely.”
― Arina Tanemura
“My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“your heart is a weapon the size of your fist. keep fighting. keep loving”
― Leah Wilson, The Girl Who Was on Fire: Your Favorite Authors on Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy
“Eyes can only capture objects that already seen in mind.
And mind can only see things that already written in heart.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Art is literacy of the heart.”
― Elliot Eisner
“The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.”
― Vanna Bonta, Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel
“When we feel, a kind of lyric is sung in our heart.
When we think, a kind of music is played in our mind.
In harmony, both create a beautiful symphony of life.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“I have a big heart and a small brain.”
― Ville Valo
“No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.”
― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“May your heart be lighter today.”
― Harley King
“If I can’t see the bottom, I don’t know how much is left. Why does my love have to be so thick? I suppose because it keeps the engine of your heart running smooth.
”
― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks
“My heart is schizophrenic.”
― Lesley Anne Cowan
“True love doesn't need proof.
The eyes told what heartfelt.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.”
― Gabrielle Zevin
“Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.”
― Philip Reeve
“walaupun tidak ada hal lain di dunia ini yang bisa kau percayai, percayalah bahwa aku mecintaimu. sepenuh hatiku.”
― Ilana Tan, Sunshine Becomes You
“Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.”
― Brennan Manning, Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate BelongingExpanded Edition: New Preface and Discussion Guide by the Author
“Our heart always transcends us.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
“The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.”
― Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories
“You didn't think I really liked you? Do you think I really like you now?"
He turned toward her, uncertainty in his face."You did go quite a lot of effort to be having this conversation, but... I don't want to read too much of what I hope into that."
Val stretched out beside him, resting her head in the crook of his arm. "What do you hope?"
He pulled her close, hands careful not to touch her wounds as they wrapped around her. "I hope that you feel for me as I do for you," he said, his voice like a sigh against her throat.
And how is that?" she asked, her lips so close to his jaw that she could taste the salt of his skin when she moved them.
You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that."
She smiled and let her eyes drift closed. They lay there together, under the bridge, city lights burning outside the windows like a sky full of falling stars, as they slid off into sleep”
― Holly Black, Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie
“Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains ... an unuprooted small corner of evil.
Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
“-Haces que merezca la pena que mi corazón continúe latiendo- Susurró contra mi cuello.
Alcé la cabeza y lo miré a los ojos.
-Y tú que el mío dejara de hacerlo.”
― Anissa B. Damom, Éxodo
“She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.”
― Denis Johnson, Jesus' Son
“There's no fear in a shallow heart
because the shallow heart is faint and don't fall apart,
But feeling hearts that truly care
are fragile to the flow of air.”
― Q-tip
“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of acts of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.”
― James Boswell
“She says your not truly human until you've had your heart broken and you've broken someone's heart.”
― Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Front and Center
“The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea
“When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen
“He wasn't mine anywhere except in my heart.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Smooth Talking Stranger
“love being such, or such,
the normal corners of your heart
will never guess how much
my wonderful jealousy is dark”
― E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems, 1904-1962
“Into your darkest corner, you are safe in my love, you are protected. I am the openess you seek, I am your doorway. Come sit in the circular temple of my heart, & let yourself be calm.”
― Agapi Stassinopoulos
“Hold your head high heavy heart.”
― William Beckett
“Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
“Only with a clear mind will you be able to see who is truly in your heart.”
― CLAMP
“I don't have a method of stepping into the depths of your heart without getting it dirty." -Kuchiki Rukia”
― Tite Kubo
“Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!”
― Michel de Montaigne
“Why break the heart that never beat from love?”
― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
“The same sun that rises over castles and welcomes the day
Spills over buildings into the streets where orphans play
And only You can see the good in broken things
You took my heart of stone, and You made it home
And set this prisoner free”
― Bethany Dillon
“Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.”
― Longfellow
“Without realizing what she was doing and more on an impulse than anything else, she leaned forward and kissed him. It was a simple, yet firm kiss and she pulled back after only a moment. But it sent a thrill through her.
He leaned down for another. But she put her finger on his lips to stop him.
"That was my reward to you," she said as they danced. "Don't squander it."
"Reward? he asked still seeming both surprised and delighted at this unexpected attention. "What for?"
"Why for living, Vaelros. And for doing so much else to help me. I will have you rewarded in state as well. But that was just from me."
She saw Vaelros flush and she gave him a brilliant smile. "You don't like my reward?" she asked.
"I do!" he replied. "I want only to learn how to earn more."
The music was fading. The song was ending. Luthiel stepped back and let her hands drop.
"A mysterious thing, my heart," she said. ”
― Robert Fanney
“I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“Love will wreck your heart like a derailed train. So choo-choose your partner wisely.
”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
“If only my heart were stone.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
“Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.”
― Marvin J. Ashton
“Elizabeth,
With my compliments.
You will never get your claws into another one of mine.
Rot in hell, Nïx clasped her hands over her chest, sighing, “He gave you his heart. That’s so romantic. So much better than a candy heart. Those get stuck in the fangs, you know.”
― Kresley Cole, Lothaire
“If someone loves you, they should not be envious of you pouring your heart and soul and time and energy into the things that you are passionate about, but instead....they should love you MORE because you are so involved in those things.”
― Sharon Swan
“It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
“The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.”
― Tess Gerritsen, Keeping The Dead
“I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care
“By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
― Albert Einstein
“You don’t deserve my image in your head. You don’t deserve my memories in your chest.”
― Coco J. Ginger
“I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.”
― Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier
“I ask for nothing. / In return I give All. / There is no earning my Love. / No work needed, no effort / Save to listen to what is already heard, / To see what is already seen. / To know what is already known. / Do I seem to ask too little? / Would you give although I ask not? / Then this you can give me and I will accept. / I will take your heart. / You will find it waiting for you / When you return.”
― Ki Longfellow, Flow Down Like Silver: Hypatia of Alexandria
“I won’t let you have it. I won’t give you this moment. I won’t let you fill up this valuable organ...I own it. I won’t do it. I can’t think, I won’t think about it.”
― Coco J. Ginger
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“The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.”
― John Calvin, Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life
“These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides: A Novel
“Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.”
― Kate DiCamillo
“Well anything thats interesting in a film, or in a character (all your passion, your sex, your anger, your rage, all that) comes from that part of you that you want to hide and push away, and you want to deny all those things most. So if you can sort of visualize a version of your shadow. And if you sort of invite him or her to the party. And if you can really understand that this is where you're going to let that shadow come out (this is where its home) Its really just understanding that its your job to get vulnerable.
And most people who have the exact opposite; most people go through life and they try all their time not to feel all those dark things. We have to go feel them, but its an opportunity too. I think to think of it that way, that just gets you into flow and that unclocks your subconscious, so you get out of your head and into your heart. Thats what I do, I just try to remember that the part of you thats going to do a good job is the part of you you want to most deny.”
― John Cusack
“No one can ever use his heart to listen or touch or feel or see or smell. It's just a lump of muscle pumping mechanically inside your ribs. It has no will and no ability to do anything but go on pumping until it gives up and withers away or is choked by some disease. Your spinal cord, on the other hand, feels. The central nervous system pours out from the spinal cord, and with it one feels pain. Pain is the most trustworthy sensation a human being can know because it teaches us what hurts. With the spinal cord, one can hear what will hurt, smell the sting of suffering, taste it, feel it, and see the world with new eyes. I learned a long time ago not to follow my heart, the hunk of meat flexing in the chest. I trust the tube locked up in a column of bone, the tube that shows me what pain is.”
― Joshua S. Porter, The Spinal Cord Perception
“Where are you?" he asked. "I'm right here" she said. "I know, but it feels like one percent of you is somewhere else, where is that one percent?" he said. "I don't know....I think I'm always like that..." she answered. "I like that." "You do?" "Yes, because that way, I have to always look for the one percent to find it.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“The light of love, the purity of grace,
The mind, the Music breathing from her face,
The heart whose softness harmonised the whole —
And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!”
― George Gordon Byron
“They called each other family and that’s what they were—sisters. Many people in the world had family of the heart, kin by choice rather than by blood, and hers had come along in her darkest hour and saved her life.”
― Christine Feehan, Spirit Bound
“Remember to delight yourself first, then others can be truly delighted."
This was my mantra when I published my first book in 1990, and still holds true. When we focus on the song of our soul and heart, then others will be touched similarly. Sometimes people wonder or worry whether people will like or approve of their creative expression. It's none of your business. It's your business to stay present and focused for the work of your deepest dreams. It might look crooked or strange, or be very odd-but if it delights you, then it is yours, and will find it's way into other hearts.”
― SARK
“To live is - to war with trolls
In the holds of the heart and mind”
― Henrik Ibsen
“Let your wisdom guide you
On your own personal journey
By listening to your heart
Your soul will be alight
And let you be
All that you are intended to be”
― Karen Hackel, The Whisper of Your Soul
“There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
“A final comfort that is small, but not cold: The heart is the only broken instrument that works.”
― T.E. Kalem
“While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End
“You put a new heart in Emma a long time ago, it just wasn’t the kind you were thinking of.” He laughed to himself. “Hope is an amazing thing. I saw it in Emma, saw it with my own eyes.”
― Charles Martin
“Here I am at these crossroads again,
wondering what will never become of me.
Now and then, I'll take one on the chin.
Because I wear my heart upon my sleeve.”
― Jerod Mankin
“We were compatible beyond compare”
― Obengbia Leyony
“Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison
“A student: "I wonder why I did what I did, maybe it was an accident" A Teacher: "Everything is a mere accident. Be it, a love or friendship. We are born by an accident, we die by an accident, we study by an accident, and sometimes, we live by an accident. However, it is not we who perform these accidents. We are just like a remote control operated by unknown creature. But worry not; your heart makes happy accidents.”
― Santosh Kalwar
“For I need this scar over my heart to remind me. Crazy as it sounds, if I can bear the wound on my body, it lessens what I must carry on my soul. How he knew that about me, I cannot fathom.”
― Ann Aguirre, Aftermath
“The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms their thinking about themselves and their world. In a single stroke, we delude our students into believing that bad prose turns opinions into facts and we alienate them from their own inner lives.”
― Parker J. Palmer
“Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.”
― Jimmy Dean
“People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument...
He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason.”
― Malcolm Muggeridge, The End of Christendom
“To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.”
― Phyllis Theroux
“How could you love something so destructive?" I ask.
"Because this wolf doesn't care if your heart is whole or not," you say. "It tastes just the same.”
― Jonathan Messinger, Hiding Out
“Stand and yield," she called out, her voice far steadier than her hands.
"For I cannot allow you to pass." Bannor's crooked grin was somehow more intimidating than a snarl.
'Twould have been far easier to despise him if he'd been cursed with horns and a tail instead of twinkling blue eyes and a dimple in his jaw.
"What would you have me yield, my lady? My sword or my heart?"
-willow&bannor-”
― Teresa Medeiros, Charming the Prince
“When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.”
― Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
“I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating. ”
― E.B. White
“. “Love doesn’t please itself by seeking revenge. Love sacrifices itself for the good of others.”
― Kerrelyn Sparks, Be Still My Vampire Heart
“Nothing shakes the smiling heart.”
― Santosh Kalwar, I Am Dead Man Alive
“The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)...”
― C.S. Lewis
“Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
“Ah, Evie,” she heard him say softly, “I must have a heart, after all…because right now it aches like the devil.”
“Only your heart?” she asked ingenuously, making him laugh.
He lowered her to the bed, his eyes sparkling wickedly. “Also a few other things,” he conceded. “And as my wife, it’s your duty to ease all my aches.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Winter
“Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don’t hate: only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers, don’t fight for slavery, fight for liberty! You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure! Then, in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite! Let us fight for a new world, a decent world . . .”
― Charles Chaplin
“Lead is to lead as follow is to follow. And lead is to lead as a type of metal is to a type of metal. Which brings me to my point: To love is to lead with your heart, while allowing your ego to sink like lead.
”
― Jarod Kintz, A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom
“Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.”
― Lao Tzu
“The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
“Devon had been so lonely, so terribly lonely, for so long. The kind of lonely that sears, that burrows its way deep inside a heart and throbs. Like a gnawing hunger.”
― Amy Efaw, After
“Your heart's voice is your true voice. It is easy to ignore it, for sometimes it says what we'd rather it did not - and it is so hard to risk the things we have. But what life are we living, if we don't live by our hearts? Not a true one. And the person living it is not the true you.”
― Susan Fletcher, The Highland Witch
“Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.”
― Bob Dylan
“Disbelief held me down inside my footsteps, making my body heavy but my heart wild.”
― Markus Zusak, Getting the Girl
“And she would not hold back his limbs when his heart was gone to the woods, for it is ever the way of witches with any two things to care for the more mysterious of the two.”
― Lord Dunsany, The King of Elfland's Daughter
“Thy will be done, my Lord. Because you know the weakness in the heart of your
children, and you assign each of them only the burden they can bear. May you
understand my love–because it is the only thing I have that is really mine, the only thing that I will be able to take with me into the next life. Please allow it to be courageous and pure; please make it capable of surviving the snares of the world.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“Those who believe and their hearts become calm and contented with the remembrance of Allah...know that it is the remembrance of Allah alone that brings rest to the hearts.
(The Qur'an-surah ar-R'ad;28)”
― Anonymous
“En mi juventud me enseñaron que en el corazón de cada historia se esconde una semilla de realidad" -Bastet”
― Michael Scott, The Sorceress
“I never heard sound and thrill of my painful heart until that very day she touched it.”
― Santosh Kalwar
“Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone else's life.”
― Jess C. Scott, The Darker Side of Life
“Heart as collapsed time, as a dug-up grave, as simple machine. Heart as big black bugs bleed blue blood. Heart as MI frozen as seen from airplane, everything still and white and beautiful. Heart as the Day the Music Died. Heart as love being made, as fucking, as a pleasantly haunted house. Heart as a dim memory of a dark room in which you’re molded wetasscracked into a beanbag chair, fumbling for wetness. Come hither. Heart as a cunt’s supposed to smell like tuna. Heart as the star of the sea. Heart as a pussy in permanent bloom. Heart as doxycycline. Heart as waxwings, as a fudge round, as the phone rings once and then stops. Heart as throw your hands in the air, throw your art at the stars, stutter and stare. Heart as a Stratocaster. Heart as Twin Reverb. Heart as I heart you so much. Heart as all that we thought we knew in the world disappears into vapor. Heart as the rest of your life times the weight of the world squared.”
― Bryan Charles, Grab on to Me Tightly as If I Knew the Way
“The great writer evokes the words
that buried within hearts of readers.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
“I only knew the schoolbooks said he "died in the wilderness, of a broken heart."
"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent. ”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia
“When mind stuck, entertain your heart.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
“Love is my fire and essence. The bundles which is my self is gone. Love has entered my house. You do not see me. You see 'the beloved.' How then can love be torn from my heart?”
― Layla and Majnun as told by Diane Wolkstein, First Love Stories: From Isis and Osiris to Tristan and Iseult
“His mind scolded him for his stupidity and urged him to forget her but his heart had no justifications for its stand. It remained unmoved, its solidarity unaffected, its arrogance still holding.”
― Faraaz Kazi
“The truth is in the heart;
out there is true darkness.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“When you hate somebody...
you give him chance mastering your heart.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
“Well, as to that, all I'll say is, you can't take out a fellow's heart before he's ready to give it up.”
― Louis Bayard, The Pale Blue Eye
“And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The next performance in the theater of Grenouille's soul was beginning.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
“There are some parts of the world that, once visited, get into your heart and won't go. For me, India is such a place. When I first visited, I was stunned by the richness of the land, by its lush beauty and exotic architecture, by its ability to overload the senses with the pure, concentrated intensity of its colors, smells, tastes, and sounds. It was as if all my life I had been seeing the world in black and white and, when brought face-to-face with India, experienced everything re-rendered in brilliant technicolor.”
― Keith Bellows
“Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors.”
― Beth Kephart, Undercover
“I think you should listen to your heart. It is there the True One speaks to us most.”
― Derek Donais, MetalMagic: Talisman
“The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable. Who can know it?”
― Jeremiah
“Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of me
And it starts from the heart 'til it reaches my outer me”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
“If you measure your life by what you own, the cavern of your heart will never be filled.”
― James D. Maxon
“Because you let our love just fall apart
You no longer have my heart”
― Boyz II Men
“I must do something or I shall wear my heart away...”
― Charles Dickens
“A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
“Be sure of your heart before you speak.”
― Lisa Mangum, The Hourglass Door
“My heart hurts that means I’m alive.”
― Kazuya Minekura, Stigma
“Be gentle with him, Mercy. He's got a heart as big as Texas— he'll die for you without blinking. But he doesn't expect anyone to do the same for him.”
― Nalini Singh, Branded by Fire
“As you get older, the heart shed its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few more leaves; and then there are the storms that break off several branches at one go. And while nature’s greenery grows back again in the spring, that of the heart never grows back.”
― Gustave Flaubert
“Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.”
― Jennifer Aniston
“A heart can stop beating for a while, one can still live.”
― Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“It didn't matter whether he was nearby or far away. His image would drift up into your mind just when you least expected it, shocking you, making your chest pound. Making your heart ache.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Asleep
“If I showed you what was in my heart," she said, "it would burn you to a cinder.
"I've tried to burn you similarly," it said, "but you never even noticed when I opened my chest.”
― Chris Adrian, The Great Night
“Tears are God's way of cleansing the heart.”
― Rebecca Barlow Jordan
“She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“Que l'on soit absent dans la pièce voisine, ou sur l'autre versant de la planète, la différence n'est pas essentielle. La présence de l'ami qui en apparence s'est éloigné, peut se faire plus dense qu'une présence réelle.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Lettre à un otage
“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
“SECOND SUN
So much blood
Has been spent in this world,
But we have not yet built a sun of blood.
Listen, my friend,
To these trembling words:
A second sun will be born
of our blood
in the form of a heart.”
― Visar Zhiti, The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry
“Because you have my heart, Virgilia Wessex.” Softly, almost achingly. “Every black ounce of it. Scars and all.”
― V.S. Carnes
“I see your bleeding dark side. I feel your angry heart. Reveals forbidden places. More monster yet alive...”
― Static-X
“... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“If you want to fight hell and the power of darkness that seek to destroy the hearts of our daughters, I know a type of spiritual warfare that creates value in a daughter's spirit. It is called "Taking your Daughter out for tea" or "Going to Her Soccer Game", and it works in direct opposition to the agenda of hell and darkness that wants to destroy their lives.”
― Jim Anderson, Unmasked: Exposing the Cultural Sexual Assault
“The heart knows the immensity it wants to achieve, but it is limited.”
― Nadia Scrieva
“What do you want me to say?" he asked, his voice sharp and moody.
"That I had a moment of weakness when I saw it?That for an instant I felt the pang of being homesick? Yeah, I did. There, you now know the Dark-Hunter who has no soul has a heart. Are you happy? "
"I already knew you had a heart. "
He stopped at a red light and looked at her. A fierce frown creased his brow as if he were trying to figure her out.
"Believe it or not," she continued,
"it shows in everything you do.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon
“Your mind has a flood of questions.
There is but one teacher
Who can answer them.
Who is that teacher?
Your silence-loving heart.”
― Sri Chinmoy
“I believe that thoughts and feelings reside on the same nerve-ending…they are called heartstrings”
― Jeremy Aldana
“Powerful words harmonize heart and mind as if a symphony.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
“Right now, just speak gently your words of wisdom to the youngsters.
Sooner or later, those words will arrive at the right place in their hearts.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.”
― Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“A new heart for a New Year, always!”
― Charles Dickens, The Chimes
“In the human heart there is a built-in obsolescence factor. It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much education you have, how selfcontrolled or holy you consider yourself—your heart, if you do not guard it, will break down.”
― K.P. Yohannan, Living in the Light of Eternity
“The owner of a cheerful heart will find his joy ever increasing.”
― African Proverb, Swahili
“Love doesn't reside in the heart, anyway. Love resides in the liver along with jaundice.”
― Amy Gerstler, Medicine
“if you're soft hearted, then you'll never servive in this world of sin”
― Zanib
“Men don't hate anything if there's no hatred in their hearts.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“I'm here!" I said..."I'm ready to go home!" As if they couldn't see me. As if I couldn't remember what it had been like, fluttering next to someone's ear and whispering into it. How the whole earth was like a musical instrument that we could play effortlessly.
...I could not fly. My sister was not there. My heart was broken.”
― Carolyn Turgeon, Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story
“The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.”
― Anita Shreve, The Pilot's Wife
“Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn't visible beneath her fitted bodice.”
― Anna Godbersen, Envy
“E quando poi davanti a te si apriranno tante strade e non saprai quale prendere, non imboccarne una a caso, ma siediti e aspetta. Respira con la profondità fiduciosa con cui hai respirato il giorno in cui sei venuta al mondo, senza farti distrarre da nulla, aspetta e aspetta ancora. Stai ferma, in silenzio, e ascolta il tuo cuore. Quando poi ti parla, alzati e và dove lui ti porta. ”
― Susanna Tamaro, Va' dove ti porta il cuore
“Listen to your heart, it speaks, hear its words”
― Patricia Kay, Gentleman Companion Two
“Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“My heart knows what my mind only think it knows.”
― Noah Benshea, Jacob the Baker: Gentle Wisdom For a Complicated World
“Tell Hugh," she whispered.
Tell Hugh your freaking self! He's right here! And you're not going anywhere.”
― L.J. Smith
“This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge. Events become feelings, fellings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl
“She put one hand on mine. “When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day
“There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts... nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other. That's how it is in all living relationships except when there is that rare case of two people who love intensely enough to burn through all those layer of opacity and see each other's naked hearts. Such cases seem purely theoretical to me...”
― Tennessee Williams
“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. ”
― Pearl S. Buck
“The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.”
― Charlie Sheen
“My brain tells me it will be better to just let him go.
My heart... not so much.”
― Simone Elkeles, Return to Paradise
“There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.”
― Cynthia Hand, Hallowed
“The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.”
― Benjamin Franklin
“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
― Homer, The Iliad
“Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw. ”
― George MacDonald, The Day Boy and the Night Girl
“It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
“Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
“So I would choose to be with you,
That's if the choice were mine to make,
But you can make decisions too,
And you can have this heart to break”
― Billy Joel
“A heart has problems which mind cannot understand.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.”
― D.H. Lawrence
“Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
“There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.”
― Greta Garbo
“When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.”
― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room: The Shakespeare Head Press Editon of Virgina Woolf
“You speak from your heart, young Firepaw. This will make you a stronger warrior one day." said Lionheart
Tigerclaw growled. "Or it might make him give in to kittypet weakness right at the moment of attack”
― Erin Hunter, Into the Wild
“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”
― Alphonse de Lamartine
“Don't pursue something with a vengeful heart, or it will destroy you. Hate wraps a cold hand around your heart and hollows you out."
- Justus”
― Dannika Dark, Twist
“I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter
“And when two people understand each other in their inmost hearts,
Their words are sweet and strong like the fragrance of orchids.”
― I Ching
“love is undying,of that I feel certain.I mean deep,abiding,cherishing love.The love that gives protection even as you,my guardian angel,gave me protection long after you had gone-and continue to give this very day...
A love beyond Death-a love that makes Life alive!”
― Ruskin Bond, Scences from a Writer's Life
“J'écoutais mon cœur. Je ne pouvais imaginer que ce bruit qui m'accompagnait depuis si longtemps pût jamais cesser.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger
“How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach.”
― Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
“There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried with a human heart. The heart, making itself guilty of such secrets, must perforce hold them, until the day when all hidden things shall be revealed. Nor have I so read or interpreted the Holy Writ, as to understand that the disclosure of human thoughts and deeds, then to be made, is intended as part of the retribution. That, surely, were a shallow view of it. No; these revelations, unless I greatly error, are meant merely to promote the intellectual satisfaction of all intelligent beings, who will stand waiting, on that day, to see the dark problem of this life made plain. A knowledge of men's hearts will be needful to the completest solution of that problem. And I conceive, moreover, that the hearts holding such secrets as you speak of will yield them up, at that last day, not with reluctance, but with a joy unutterable.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
“If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes nothing more than a tawdry parlor trick. All flash and no magic, and worst of all, no heart.”
― Don Roff
“الحب هو الخاتم الذي يبصم نفسه على القلب وهو في قوته كالموت”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
“When mind says it's impossible, don't dictate heart to comply.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“I hate you. I wish you was dead."
Mrs. Carey gasped. He said the words so savagely that it gave her quite a start. She had nothing to say. She sat down in her husband's chair; and as she thought of her desire to love the friendless, crippled boy and her eager wish that he should love her--she was a barren woman and, even though it was clearly God's will that she should be childless, she could scarcely bear to look at little children sometimes, her heart ached so--the tears rose to her eyes and one by one, slowly, rolled down her cheeks. Philip watched her in amazement. She took out her handkerchief, and now she cried without restraint. Suddenly Philip realised that she was crying because of what he had said, and he was sorry. He went up to her silently and kissed her. It was the first kiss he had ever given her
without being asked. And the poor lady, so small in her black satin, shrivelled up and sallow, with her funny corkscrew curls, took the little boy on her lap and put her arms around him and wept as though her heart would break. But her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.”
― W. Somerset Maugham
“The human heart is like india-rubber; a little swells it, but a great deal will not burst it. If "little more than nothing will disturb it, little less than all things will suffice" to break it. As in the outer members of our frame, there is a vital power inherent in itself that strengthens it against external violence. Every blow that shakes it will serve to harden it against a future stroke; as constant labour thickens the skin of the hand, and strengthens its muscles instead of wasting them away: so that a day of arduous toil, that might excoriate a lady's palm, would make no sensible impression on that of a hardy ploughman.”
― Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
“Two halves won't make a whole
If the whole
Is a hole
In a person's heart.”
― The Book of Deliberations
“Follow your heart. Your heart is the right guide in everything big. Mine is so limited. What you want to
do is determined by that divine element that is in each of us.”
― Kahlil Gibran
“My daughter and two sons are the flowers in my heart and garden.”
― Ana Monnar
“I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.”
― Stevie Smith, Selected Poems
“The Everlasting Staircase"
Jeffrey McDaniel
When the call came, saying twenty-four hours to live,
my first thought was: can't she postpone her exit
from this planet for a week? I've got places to do,
people to be. Then grief hit between the ribs,
said disappear or reappear more fully. so I boarded
a red eyeball and shot across America,
hoping the nurses had enough quarters to keep
the jukebox of Grandma's heart playing. She grew up
poor in Appalachia. And while world war II
functioned like Prozac for the Great Depression,
she believed poverty was a double feature,
that the comfort of her adult years was merely
an intermission, that hunger would hobble back,
hurl its prosthetic leg through her window,
so she clipped, clipped, clipped -- became the Jacques
Cousteau of the bargain bin, her wetsuit
stuffed with coupons. And now --pupils fixed, chin
dangling like the boots of a hanged man --
I press my ear to her lampshade-thin chest
and listen to that little soldier march toward whatever
plateau, or simply exhaust his arsenal of beats.
I hate when people ask if she even knew I was there.
The point is I knew, holding the one-sided
conversation of her hand. Once I believed the heart
was like a bar of soap -- the more you use it,
the smaller it gets; care too much and it'll snap off
in your grasp. But when Grandma's last breath
waltzed from that room, my heart opened
wide like a parachute, and I realized she didn't die.
She simply found a silence she could call her own.”
― Jeffrey McDaniel
“Playing along in the yard,
The blue sky sparkles against the earthly green,
Creating such harmony!
A pond, nearby.
Untroubled waters mirrors the ether's dreams.
A grand echo of my Divine Heart!
I am One”
― Arnaud Saint-Paul, The Human Project
“Karena cinta dan perhatian itu berbanding lurus... sama-sama kata kerja yang butuh kerja keras mewujudkannya. cinta tanpa perhatian, cukup disimpan dalam hati saja,namun jika hanya perhatian tanpa cinta, maka ikatan apapun tak perlu diantaranya”
― mutee
“Do I have YOUR permission to be a Supernatural God? If I want to open heaven, and in a moment in time, touch the heart of a daughter and supernaturally break all the darkness, shame, and torment in her life, MAY I DO THAT?”
― Jim Anderson, Unmasked: Exposing the Cultural Sexual Assault
“rindu adalah badai yang mengkaramkan perahu hingga tiada yang terapung di lautan hati selain dia yang dirindu”
― Riza Rahmi
“Nobody think about that broken heart... life goes on, broken heart never join together but it tries very hard to get joined again. That;swhy may be it said "Heart is like a mirror, if its broken can never be joined.”
― Shahid Islam
“I choose to believe God had a more direct involvement in the creation of my heart and consciousness than in the creation of any book, no matter how thick or old it may be.”
― P.S. Baber, Cassie Draws the Universe
“They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his Spanish chick'll be able to reach in and grab his heart.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
“It's not the substance of what you make known to me that's beautiful; it's the opening of your heart. It is the 'yes' in your heart to be mine. The fact that you are revealing the secrets and letting me peer into your heart--that is in itself the beautiful part.”
― Dana Candler, Deep Unto Deep: The Journey of His Embrace
“As he satin the tree he looked down at the girl in the floral dress and felt his heart miss a beat.”
― Isabella Kruger, Afterlife
“Beyond speech and mind,
Into the river of ever-effulgent Light
My heart dives.
Today thousands of doors, closed for millennia,
Are opened wide.”
― Sri Chinmoy, The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace
“There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on its hands and knees and plays around the mouth like a pretty moth around the blaze of a candle, then it steals over into the dimples of the cheeks and rides around in those whirlpools for a while, then it lights up the whole face like the mellow bloom on a damask rose, then it swims up on the air, with a peal as clear and as happy as a dinner-bell, then it goes back again on gold tiptoes like an angel out for an airing, and it lies down on its little bed of violets in the heart where it came from.”
― Josh Billings
“I climb aboard my tricycle and pedal my heart to the stars.”
― Harley King
“Who are you? What’s your name?”
“Mi Mi.”
“Do you hear that thumping noise?”
“No.”
“It must be here somewhere.” Tin Win knelt down. Now it was nearly next to his ear. “I hear it more and more distinctly. A soft pulsing. You really don’t hear it?”
“No.”
“Close your eyes.”
Mi Mi closed her eyes. “Nothing,” she said, and laughed. Tin Win leaned over and felt her breath on his face. “I think it’s coming from you.” He crept closer to her and held his head just in front of her chest.
There it was. Her heartbeat.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
“There's only one thing that can heal the heart... Only one... It's love, Gaara.”
― Masashi Kishimoto
“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Every night I pray I whisper into a megaphone, not only so God is sure to hear, but also my neighbors, because I pray to God He’ll deliver pestilence and plague to the residents next door. I even tell God the exact address, as if He can’t read my heart. But it’s not for His benefit, it’s for my neighbors’.
”
― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.
“I’m not exactly sympathetic, but I do have a big heart. I have to, to be able to pump all the blood required to operate my massive penis.
”
― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.
“There is emotion in the hug, and there is respect and a form of love. Emotion that comes from honesty, respect that comes from challenge, and the form of love that exists between people whose minds have touched, whose hearts have touched, whose souls have touched. Our minds touched. Our hearts touched. Our souls touched.
We separate.”
― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces
“A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“I am my heart’s undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow.”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
“Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
“I’m not exactly sympathetic, but I do have a big heart. I have to, to be able to pump all the blood required to operate my massive penis.
”
― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.
“I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. The pain is like an axe that chops my heart. ”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
“Hearts Live By Being Wounded”
― Oscar Wilde
“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“One love, one heart, one destiny.”
― Bob Marley
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
― Blaise Pascal
“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
― Kahlil Gibran
“and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.”
― Jodi Picoult
“I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
“His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.”
― Augustine of Hippo
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“Laugh, even when you feel too sick or too worn out or tired.
Smile, even when you're trying not to cry and the tears are blurring your vision.
Sing, even when people stare at you and tell you your voice is crappy.
Trust, even when your heart begs you not to.
Twirl, even when your mind makes no sense of what you see.
Frolick, even when you are made fun of. Kiss, even when others are watching. Sleep, even when you're afraid of what the dreams might bring.
Run, even when it feels like you can't run any more.
And, always, remember, even when the memories pinch your heart. Because the pain of all your experience is what makes you the person you are now. And without your experience---you are an empty page, a blank notebook, a missing lyric. What makes you brave is your willingness to live through your terrible life and hold your head up high the next day. So don't live life in fear. Because you are stronger now, after all the crap has happened, than you ever were back before it started.”
― Alysha Speer
“Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.”
― Henry Rollins
“Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“fear kills everything. Your mind, your heart, your imagination.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
“You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
“Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
“How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?”
― Jodi Picoult, Mercy
“Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven't had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away.”
― Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life
“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
“But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart.
(Mais les yeux sont aveugles. Il faut chercher avec le cœur.)”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.”
― Sara Teasdale
“Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”
― Joanne Harris, Chocolat
“Then love knew it was called love.
And when I lifted my eyes to your name,
suddenly your heart showed me my way”
― Pablo Neruda, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
“The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song.”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
“In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, ‘Is it good, friend?’
‘It is bitter — bitter,’ he answered,
‘But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart.”
― Stephen Crane
“I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others—the only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad. I am not sad. I am not sad. Because his life had unlimited potential for happiness, insofar as it was an empty white room. He would fall asleep with his heart at the foot of his bed, like some domesticated animal that was no part of him at all. And each morning he would wake with it again in the cupboard of his rib cage, having become a little heavier, a little weaker, but still pumping. And by the midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else. I am not sad.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
― Ted Hughes, Letters of Ted Hughes
“When you miss someone....it’s weird…your body doesn’t function normally..as it should. Because I miss you, and my heart…it’s not steady…my soul it sings numb. Fingers are cold…like you…your soul.”
― Coco J. Ginger
“If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.”
― Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
“Sometimes, the only soul that can mend a broken heart is the one that broke it. For they are the ones holding all the pieces.”
― Patti Roberts, The Angels Are Here
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses”.”
― Amit Abraham
“The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.”
― Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock
“The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.”
― Francis William Bourdillon
“Take care of my heart won't you, Sophie? It's a little odd having it outside my body-but I'm planning to steal yours to make up for it.”
― Nalini Singh, Bonds of Justice
“I smiled,"Deoch, my heart is made of stronger stuff than glass. When she strikes she'll find it strong as iron-bound brass, or gold and adamant together mixed. Don't think I am unaware, some startled deer to stand transfixed by hunter's horns. It's she who should take care, for when she strikes, my heart will make a sound so beautiful and bright that it can't help but bring her back to me in winged light.”
― Patrick Rothfuss
“Sinful heart blames.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“The mind of man is capable of anything”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
“If I could touch anything in the world right now, it would be your heart. I want to take that piece of you and keep it with me.”
― Jessica Verday, The Haunted
“You can deal with the brain, as I say; it looks sensible, whereas the heart, the human heart, I'm afraid, looks a fucking mess.”
― Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
“I look into my heart and see the abyss looking back at me.'
'I won't let you fall.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Kiss
“She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She didn't trust anyone with her heart - or the darker places of her soul.”
― Christine Feehan, Turbulent Sea
“Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.”
― Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays
“There were times of hardship when people forget the courage they need to keep fighting; and survive. But I think as long as we have something to believe in; to keep close in our hearts, courage will never truly leave us. We only have to reach deep in our heart to find it.”
― Sakura
“My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall “Please, no one touch my heart. Don't touch it. Don't notice anything. No one has to know what my heart is feeling. I decided that I wouldn't turn back. That's why I threw everything away. So, don't you ever say, "I'm lonely.”
“your heart is a weapon the size of your fist. keep fighting. keep loving”
― Leah Wilson, The Girl Who Was on Fire: Your Favorite Authors on Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy
“Eyes can only capture objects that already seen in mind.
And mind can only see things that already written in heart.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Art is literacy of the heart.”
― Elliot Eisner
“The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.”
― Vanna Bonta, Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel
“When we feel, a kind of lyric is sung in our heart.
When we think, a kind of music is played in our mind.
In harmony, both create a beautiful symphony of life.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“I have a big heart and a small brain.”
― Ville Valo
“No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.”
― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“May your heart be lighter today.”
― Harley King
“If I can’t see the bottom, I don’t know how much is left. Why does my love have to be so thick? I suppose because it keeps the engine of your heart running smooth. ”
― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks
“My heart is schizophrenic.”
― Lesley Anne Cowan
“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
― Ted Hughes, Letters of Ted Hughes
“When you miss someone....it’s weird…your body doesn’t function normally..as it should. Because I miss you, and my heart…it’s not steady…my soul it sings numb. Fingers are cold…like you…your soul.”
― Coco J. Ginger
“If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.”
― Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
“Sometimes, the only soul that can mend a broken heart is the one that broke it. For they are the ones holding all the pieces.”
― Patti Roberts, The Angels Are Here
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses”.”
― Amit Abraham
“The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.”
― Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock
“The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.”
― Francis William Bourdillon
“Take care of my heart won't you, Sophie? It's a little odd having it outside my body-but I'm planning to steal yours to make up for it.”
― Nalini Singh, Bonds of Justice
“I smiled,"Deoch, my heart is made of stronger stuff than glass. When she strikes she'll find it strong as iron-bound brass, or gold and adamant together mixed. Don't think I am unaware, some startled deer to stand transfixed by hunter's horns. It's she who should take care, for when she strikes, my heart will make a sound so beautiful and bright that it can't help but bring her back to me in winged light.”
― Patrick Rothfuss
“Sinful heart blames.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“The mind of man is capable of anything”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
“If I could touch anything in the world right now, it would be your heart. I want to take that piece of you and keep it with me.”
― Jessica Verday, The Haunted
“You can deal with the brain, as I say; it looks sensible, whereas the heart, the human heart, I'm afraid, looks a fucking mess.”
― Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
“Romance is the sweetening of the soul
With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.”
― Wole Soyinka, Lion and the Jewel
“I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.”
― Albert Camus
“If my heart grows any fonder, it's going to hop out of my chest and into yours.”
― Olivia Cunning, Backstage Pass
“We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
“Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' gold
And like the sky my soul is also turnin'
Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind”
― Ray Lamontagne, Ray Lamontagne and the Pariah Dogs - God Willin' & the Creek Don't Rise
“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”
― Raymond Carver
“You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.”
― Melody Beattie, The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Live When It All Seems Too Hard to Take
“Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart—had a mate. A rightness. She’d always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did.”
― Nora Roberts
“In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“It is tragic to see how the religious sentiment of the West has become so individualized that concepts such as "a contrite heart," have come to refer only to the personal experiences of guilt and willingness to do penance for it. The awareness of our impurity in thoughts, words and deeds can indeed put us in a remorseful mood and create in us the hope for a forgiving gesture. But if the catastrophical events of our days, the wars, mass murders, unbridled violence, crowded prisons, torture chambers, the hunger and the illness of millions of people and he unnamable misery of a major part of the human race is safely kept outside the solitude of our hearts, our contrition remains no more than a pious emotion. ”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, Reaching Out
“Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, Merlin
“Just as heart is a fountain of unspoken words,
the universe is a womb of wonder weird worlds.”
― Toba Beta
“...love is a chemical imbalance, too. That perilous highs and desperate lows and extravagant flurries of mood are not always symptoms of a broken mind, but signs of a beating heart.”
― Terri Cheney, Manic: A Memoir
“I love you," she said, and I knew she meant it because she spoke the words from the heart at the center of her chest. This, at least, had not been left behind at the hospital.”
― Augusten Burroughs, A Wolf at the Table
“You view the gods as entities without," Montolio tried to explain. "You see them as physical beings trying to control our actions for their own ends, and thus you, in your stubborn independance, reject them. The gods are within, I say, whether one has named his own or not. You have followed Mielikki all your life, Drizzt. You merely never had a name to put on your heart.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Sojourn
“Get a grip on your heart and pride, girl. Nobody has or ever will give a damn whether you're happy or not.”
― Sandy Blair, A Man In A Kilt
“Falling in love was as much about receiving as it was giving, was it? It seemed selfish. It was not, though. It was the opposite. Keeping oneself from being loved was to refuse the ultimate gift.
He had thought himself done with romantic love. He had thought himself an incurable cynic.
He was not, though.
He was only someone whose heart and mind, and very soul, had been battered and bruised. It was still - and always - safe to give since there was a certain deal of control to be exerted over giving. Taking, or allowing oneself to receive, was an altogether more risky business.
For receiving meant opening up the heart again.
Perhaps to rejection.
Or disillusionment.
Or pain.
Or even heart break.
It was all terribly risky.
And all terribly necessary.
And of course, there was the whole issue of trust...”
― Mary Balogh, At Last Comes Love
“...the sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart...converted it into a tomb...”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
“Under her palm, his heart beat strong and sure. It was such a human sound, so honest, so real.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Kiss
“Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?”
― Robin Hobb, Ship of Destiny
“Everybody will get their wants, when they heartily want.”
― Santosh Kalwar
“The heart is capable of sacrifice. So is the vagina. The heart is able to forgive and repair. It can change it's shape to let us in. It can expand to let us out. So can the vagina. It can ache for us and stretch for us, die for us and bleed and bleed us into this difficult, wondrous world. So can the vagina. I was there in the room. I remeber.”
― Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues
“By having good memories on every place you just visit,
you are building paradise in your own heart and your life.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
“I don't want to say something cheesy like 'home is where the heart is,' but home is definitely where the heart is. And my heart is, and has always been, with you.”
― Melissa Senate, The Breakup Club
“The things that we love tell us what we are.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas
“The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“I don't function without a heart, he said angrily and then
added under his breath as he grabbed at the front of his Tshirt,
He's right here.”
― Giselle Ellis, Take My Picture
“The average adult blue whale has a heart that weighs more than 2,000 pounds… but still, it couldn’t love you as much as I do. ”
― pon and zi
“Music links us humans, heart to heart...Across time and space, and life and death.”
― Nancy Werlin, Impossible
“The way to a woman's heart is through truth and trust. Well, all except mine. Mine is is through chocolate.”
― Taylor E. Bennet
“No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.”
― Faraaz Kazi
“But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“You can’t buy time, Nick. Ever. It’s the only thing in life you can’t get most of, and it’s the one thing that will mercilessly tear you up when it’s gone. It takes no pity on no soul and no heart.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Invincible
“Unshed tears leave a deposit on your heart. Eventually they form a crust around it and paralyze it, the way mineral deposits paralyze a washing machine.”
― Susanna Tamaro, Follow Your Heart
“I want your most vital organ. I want it to be mine.”
― Coco J. Ginger
“She wasn't to know there was no room for Soren - or any other boy - in my heart. There was only one boy taking up that place.
Luca.”
― Lee Monroe, Dark Heart Rising
“From the way that people have always talked about your heart being broken, it sort of seemed to be a one-time thing. Mine seemed to break all the time.”
― Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals
“I've heard fate talked of. It's not a word I use. I think we make our own choices. I think how we live our lives is our own doing, and we cannot fully hope on dreams and stars. But dreams and stars can guide us, perhaps. And the heart's voice is a strong one. Always is.
Your heart's voice is your true voice. It is easy to ignore it, for sometimes it says what we'd rather it did not - and it is so hard to risk the things we have. But what life are we living, if we don't live by our hearts? Not a true one. And the person living it is not the true you.”
― Susan Fletcher, Corrag
“The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
“My city. I pondered that phrase, wondered why Barrons felt that way. He never said “our world.” He always said “your world.” But he called Dublin his city. Merely because he’d been in it so long? Or had Barrons, like me, been beguiled by her tawdry grace, fallen for her charm and colorful dualities?
I looked around “my” bookstore. That was what I called it. Did we call the things of our heart our own, whether they were or not?”
― Karen Marie Moning, Dreamfever
“I'm a heart surgeon, sure, but I'm just a mechanic. I go in and I fuck around and I fix things. Shit.”
― Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
“In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us.”
― Mark Rowlands, The Philosopher and the Wolf: Lessons from the Wild on Love, Death, and Happiness
“But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“Don’t test God and make some tests for him. That doesn’t make any sense. Besides that he can do anything, above everything you could ask. He wants your heart to be real. He wants a volunteering lover. That’s why he gives you a choice. He can tell a tree to grow and it will grow. But it’s up to you to decide whether you obey him or not, he gave you a will. Even though he didn’t give a tree a will, he gave you a will. And he says: "I want you to grow, will you grow? I want you to love me, will you love me? Like I love you, I love you so much.”
― Lacey Mosley
“Heart lesson #3: post-heartbreak survival.
The heart is resilient, I mean literally. When a body is burned, the heart is the last organ to oxidize. While the rest of the body can catch flame like a polyester sheet on campfire, it takes hours to burn the heart to ash. My dear sister, a near-perfect organ! Solid, inflammable.”
― Ibi Kaslik, Skinny
“So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.”
― Titus Lucretius Carus
“Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.”
― Danny Kaye
“We cannot achieve more in life than what we believe in our heart of hearts we deserve to have.”
― James R. Ball
“There’s a pause so yawning I can’t help but think about what it would be like to lean in and kiss her, but if I’m getting the signals wrong then I’m about to destroy the best run we’ve had all evening. It’s been at least ten minutes since I’ve done or said anything stupid.”
― Leanne Hall, This is Shyness
“How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, when memory plays an old tune on the heart!”
― Eliza Cook
“Speech is the voice of the heart.”
― Anna Quindlen
“Everything in life is somewhere else and you get there through open heart.”
― Santosh Kalwar
“A judgmental heart keeps listening to the things that annoy.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“I was happy in the dream; but when I woke up it was with a feeling that I was falling apart, that I was cracking up from the inside and slowly falling to pieces. My heart was jumping and grating like a cold engine that doesn't want to start. My skin was crawling, and I couldn't manage a single clear thought. It was as if all my thoughts were crushed to bits just as they began to take shape. I didn't get much done that day.”
― Ninni Holmqvist, The Unit
“A woman's head is always influenced by her heart; but a man's heart by his head.”
― Lady Margaret Blessington
“The size of ones heart is more important
than the size of ones wallet.”
― Moses Pereira
“Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn’t matter if you’re going to live or die, the work is always the same. (25)”
― Stephen Levine, A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
“Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart.”
― Phillip Pullman
“Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.”
― Alphonse de Lamartine
“As our bodies are mostly made of water, I’d rather be hungry than thirsty. And as love is mostly made up of sugar water, I’d rather be a hummingbird caged in your heart. ”
― Jarod Kintz, The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink.
“I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.”
― Ally Condie, Matched
“I’m mistaken….
for thinking you were someone with a heart worth breaking.”
― Coco J. Ginger
“If heart filled with purity,
then mind found the beauty.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
“A man’s heart is a wretched, wretched thing, Mariam. It isn’t like a mother’s womb. It won’t bleed, it won’t stretch to make room for you. I’m the only one who loves you!”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
“He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Isn't strength the ability to renounce every lie in your heart?"
~Tamaki”
― Bisco Hatori, Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 7
“In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they do not love your flesh. They despise it. They don't love your eyes; they'd just as soon pick em out. No more do they love the skin on your back. Yonder they flay it. And O my people they do not love your hands. Those they only use, tie, bind, chop off and leave empty. Love your hands! Love them. Raise them up and kiss them. Touch others with them, pat them together, stroke them on your face 'cause they don't love that either. You got to love it, you! And no, they ain't in love with your mouth. Yonder, out there, they will see it broken and break it again. What you say out of it they will not heed. What you scream from it they do not hear. What you put into it to nourish your body they will snatch away and give you leavins instead. No, they don't love your mouth. You got to love it. This is flesh I'm talking about here. Flesh that needs to be loved. Feet that need to rest and to dance; backs that need support; shoulders that need arms, strong arms I'm telling you. And O my people, out yonder, hear me, they do not love your neck unnoosed and straight. So love your neck; put a hand on it, grace it, stroke it and hold it up. and all your inside parts that they'd just as soon slop for hogs, you got to love them. The dark, dark liver--love it, love it and the beat and beating heart, love that too. More than eyes or feet. More than lungs that have yet to draw free air. More than your life-holding womb and your life-giving private parts, hear me now, love your heart. For this is the prize.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved
“Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.”
― Martin Luther
“I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“Self love is the elixir of an immortal heart.”
― Amy Leigh Mercree
“One of the questions that surprised me most was this: “Mommy, if Jesus comes to live inside my heart, will I explode?” “No!” I proclaimed as the children and I headed to the Nile River for a few of them to be baptized that day. Then I thought about the question a bit more. “Yes, if Jesus comes to live in your heart, you will explode.” That is exactly what we should do if Jesus comes to live inside our hearts. We will explode with love, with compassion, with hurt for those who are hurting, and with joy for those who rejoice. We will explode with a desire to be more, to be better, to be close to the One who made us.”
― Katie J. Davis, Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption
“Were I the Moor I would not be Iago.
In following him I follow but myself;
Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,
But seeming so for my peculiar end.
For when my outward action doth demonstrate
The native act and figure of my heart
In compliment extern, ’tis not long after
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at. I am not what I am”
― William Shakespeare, Othello
“Ο θυμός άλλο πράμα. Ο άνθρωπος κοκκινίζει, φωνάζει, κάνει, χτυπιέται
και ξεθυμαίνει. Ουφ! Η χολή άλλο. Αυτή καθίζει μέσα στα σωθικά,
συμμαζεύεται στην καρδιά του ανθρώπου, τήνε κιτρινίζει, σα φλερόνι και
τήνε σαπίζει!... Να τι κερδίζει ένας που χολεύεται...”
― Konstantinos Theotokis "Η Ζωή Και Ο Θάνατος Του Καραβέλα"
― Konstantinos Theotokis "Η Ζωή Και Ο Θάνατος Του Καραβέλα"
“The heart is an organ of fire.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
“Hate cannot stop until someone stops hating - I am that someone".”
― Richard O Harris
“Don't overthink things. Sometimes you can convince your head not to listen to your heart. Those are the decisions you regret for the rest of your life." Faith Barnett From Texas Tangle”
― Leah Braemel
“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.”
― Marc Chagall
“Harden your heart.”
― James Patterson, Nevermore
“Gratitude is medicine for a heart devastated by tragedy. If you can only be thankful for the blue sky, then do so. ”
― Richelle E. Goodrich
“You are my heart,” he said. He’d said those very words to her that morning. But that morning, they’d sounded affectionate and playful. Now he said them as if he were stating a fact of anatomy. “I will not lose you. I’m sending you away to keep you safe. Do you understand? Say ‘Yes, sir.’”
Nora nodded and swallowed a sudden lump in her throat.
”Yes, sir.” Soren bent his head and kissed her long and slow before pulling back.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Angel
“I would rather my heart be without words than my words be without heart.”
― LaMar Boschman
“The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.”
― Criss Jami
“It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another person, not with the mind, not even with the heart.”
― Henry Miller
“In every human heart is a place where you put all your broken dreams. When something doesn't work out, no matter what it may be, you just have to give it up and stuff it in with your broken dreams. And make sure you keep the lid on tight.”
― Sayo Masuda
“Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky
“Oh you, use your heart as a weapon
And it hurts like heaven”
― Coldplay
“For all his sourness, he was ruled by his heart.”
― Kim Harrison, Early to Death, Early to Rise
“The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.”
― John Eldredge Brent Curtis, The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God
“I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!”
― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“Follow Ur HEART, Not Someone Else’s.”
― Akki
“She said before i could touch her walls I'd have to touch her heart. so i did.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker
“I want to be a woman who lives totally abandoned to the first commandment: to love my Lord, my God, with all my heart. I don’t want the reputation that I love God, I don’t want to write songs about loving God, I don’t want to talk about loving God. I want to actually love God. When I close my eyes, I want my heart to move. When I close my eyes and I look at Him, I want to feel alive on the inside. I want to look at Him with a fire in my heart and it’s real.”
― Misty Edwards
“It is better to die, than dive heart-first, into a pool of love, only knee-high deep.”
― Anthony Liccione
“Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every colour. Like water or diamonds or crystals, it's pure and reflects the light.”
― Glenda Millard, A Small Free Kiss in the Dark
“Di manapun kamu berada. Di situlah hatiku ada. Rumahku itu, kamu.”
― Hilda Nurina Sabikah
“Când întâlnești un bărbat ca Don Juanul tău, imposibil, scandalos de seducător, amuză-te cât poți, dar ai grijă să-ți încui inima în safe superblindat. Dacă ești însă slabă de înger, cotește-o urgent pe altă uliță.”
― Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu, O toaleta a la Liz Taylor
“His closeness makes my heart beat faster, my skin tingle, my body want things it doesn't even know.”
― Teri Terry
“An idea can destroy the mind of a human being, twist it into a dark path of destruction and illness. But only the human can destroy the mind with a bullet to the soul. Ideas do not kill people; they ruin them. People kill people.”
― Ingrid
“Deal with him, Hemingway!”
― James Joyce
“You know, Joey, the medication has helped settle you down, but you have been a good kid all along. You are naturally good. I hope you know that about yourself. You have a good heart.”
― Jack Gantos, Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
“There is great worth in holding universal truths and timelessly beautiful words in your heart, which will stay there forever, infusing your thoughts and speech…”
― Dan Stevens
“I know that sentence is long and has too many joining words in it but sometimes, when I'm angry, words burst out of me like a shout, or, if I'm sad, they spill out of me like tears, and if I'm happy my words are like a song. If that happens it's one of my rules not to change them because they're coming out of my heart and not my head, and that's the way they're meant to be.”
― Glenda Millard, A Small Free Kiss in the Dark
“(after asking Christ into his heart) I waited. And then, true to His promise, He came into my heart and my life. The moment was more than remarkable; it was the most realistic experience I'd ever had. I'm not sure what I expected; perhaps my life or my sins or a great white light would flash before my eyes; perhaps I'd feel a shock like being hit by a bolt of lightning. Instead, I felt no tremendous sensation, just a weightlessness and an enveloping calm that let me know that Christ had come into my heart.”
― Louis Zamperini, Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II
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