Heart Quotes
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Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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You don't have to get doughty or, suddenly, because you have a new label on you, 'Oh, I'm 50, so therefore, I have to be a certain thing.' Follow your heart and look at your rear view as well as your front view!
Susan Lucci
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In the first few seconds an aching sadness wrenched his heart, but it soon gave way to a feeling of sweet disquiet, the excitement of gypsy wanderlust.
Mikhail Bulgakov
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It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared to death when the lights go on.
Mireille Mathieu
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The heart set to do the Father's will, need never fear defeat.
Elisabeth Elliot
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Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything else.
Diane Ackerman
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You're in my heart, you're in my soul. You'll be my breath, should I grow old.
Rod Stewart
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Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts.
Elisabeth Elliot
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My daughter speaks with a wisdom beyond her years. We have all come here with anger in our hearts but she comes with courage and understanding. From this day forward if there is to be more killing it will not start with me.
Chief Powhatan
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My heart is a garden tired with autumn, Heaped with bending asters and dahlias heavy and dark, In the hazy sunshine, the garden remembers April, The drench of rains and a snow-drop quick and clear as a spark; Daffodils blowing in the cold wind of morning, And golden tulips, goblets holding the rain - The garden will be hushed with snow, forgotten soon, forgotten - After the stillness, will spring come again?
Sara Teasdale
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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire and live by love though the stars walk backwards.
Ben Sherwood
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No one can truly see Christ, and drink in the influence of his character, and not be a Christian at heart.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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I perceive that you have a cruel heart, my child. It lies within your breast like a smoldering blade, hissing steam at me.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Give cheerfully. If we're not cheerful, the problem is our heart, and the solution is redirecting our heart, not withholding our giving.
Randy Alcorn
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You don't change people's hearts by making them suffer. You harm yourself as well as them.
Anne Douglas Sedgwick
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Logic is a cruel tool to use for the mending of hearts.
Natsuhiko Kyogoku
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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If our hearts and minds are not properly transformed, we are like musicians playing untuned instruments, or engineers working with broken and ill-programmed computers. The attunement of the heart is essential to the outflow of grace...We must aim at building the structures of God's kingdom but recognized that we will only create these through the transformation of our experience. Concentration on reformation without revival leads to skins without wine; concentration on revival without reformation soon loses the wine for want of skins.
Richard Lovelace
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There are a great number of Republicans who are economically conservative but have hearts and a consciousness about their country.
Tim Robbins
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Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.
Karen White
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Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God
Mother Teresa
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Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
William Jennings Bryan
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Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed.
Eric Weiner
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Like an animal. As if people weren’t animals. She tried to put a face on him. His eyes would betray the chaos of his heart, the riots that were exploding everywhere inside him. His eyes would be so black that they would shine blue in the sun.
Benjamin Alire Saenz