Heart Quotes
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
Wole Soyinka
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I love everybody. My heart's open to everybody.
Dolly Parton
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The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote
Sarah Dessen
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..."Are you okay?" he says, still looking at me, and I feel my smile slip, fade, and the silence that falls over us then is so total I can’t hear anything, not the rush-hiss of my heart pounding in my chest, not the sounds all around us; insects, wind, and the distant clatter of others’ lives in houses built close but not too close because when we look out our windows we all like to pretend that everything we see is ours. But Ryan is not mine.
Elizabeth Scott
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Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.
Helen Keller
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Know and watch your heart. It's pure but emotions come to colour it.
Ajahn Chah
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I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.
Brigham Young
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In the evening, when everything is tired and quiet, I sit with Walt Whitman by the rose beds and listen to what that lonely and beautiful spirit has to tell me of night, sleep, death, and the stars. This dusky, silent hour is his; and this is the time when I can best hear the beatings of that most tender and generous heart.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
Amelia Barr
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The play is so close to the reality. . . . It comes out of the heart.
Barbara Williams
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All that produces longing in the heart deprives it of its freedom.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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There's a part of me that will always believe that Angel is Buffy's true love. That there will be a piece of her heart that will always be with him for the rest of her life.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
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The heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.
Hilary Mantel
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The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.
Susan Griffin
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Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a loneliness would always claim his heart. He could never quite get a grip on what it was. It just seemed that whatever lay waiting "out there" was all too vast, too overwhelming for him to possibly ever make a dent in.
Haruki Murakami
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Can we find nothing good to say about TV? Well, yes, it brings scattered solitaries into a sort of communion. TV allows your isolated American to think that he participates in the life of the entire country. It does not actually place him in a community, but his heart is warmed with the suggestion (on the whole false) that there is a community somewhere in the vicinity and that his atomized consciousness will be drawn back toward the whole.
Saul Bellow
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I'll never harden my heart but I've toughened the muscles around it.
Dolly Parton
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The truth was, it was myself I couldn't trust, my eyes from betraying my heart.
Elizabeth Chandler
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In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'
Sherman Alexie
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America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.
Rick Perry
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I stay close to my roots and my family. I never want to forget any part of it. I'm still just a hillbilly at heart, thus a Backwoods Barbie.
Dolly Parton
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A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love, the hope of eternal happiness.
Mother Teresa