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Quotes including the word “hear”.

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Alfred Adler

“Follow your heart but take your brain with you.”

Aeshop

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

Akhmatova

Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

Akhmatova

You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.

Pinto Andrade

I want to surround myself with people who can touch the hearts of others

Maya Angelou

You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Maya Angelou

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Apollinaire

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts

Thomas Aquinas

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.

Marcus Aurelius

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Jane Austen

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

Jane Austen

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Sathya Baba

There is only one language, the language of the Heart. There is only one religion, the religion of Love.

Bach

It is the special province of music to move the heart.

Li Bai

No one understands now. Those who could hear a song this deeply vanished long ago.

Baudelaire

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

Baudelaire

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

Bausch

Everything must come from the heart, must be lived.

Giordano Bruno

The whole soul is in the whole body, in the bones and in the veins and in the heart; it is no more present in one part than in another, and it is no less present in one part than in the whole, nor in the whole less than in one part.

Pearl Buck

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.

Buddha

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

Albert Camus

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Anton Chekhov

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Chopin

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

Cicero

Books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Confucius

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Confucius

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Joseph Conrad

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

Ihab Darwish

For me music is powerful. It brings peace in people’s hearts & minds as it overcome barriers and form strong bonds.

Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Dickens

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Emily Dickinson

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Dostoevsky

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Epicurus

It takes more than just a good looking body. You should have the heart and soul to go with it.

Ella Fitzgerald

I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.

Foscolo,

Everything stays in the power of heart and no people, no sky, not even our interests can ever change.

Anne Frank

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Plinius Gaius

Home is where the heart is.

Khalil Gibran

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Khalil Gibran

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.

Khalil Gibran

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Goethe

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

van Gogh,Vincent

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

Hafez

Every heart will obtain what it most prays for.

Hawthorne

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

Homer

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is the man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

Ted Hughes

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

What happens in the heart simply happens.

Panait Istrati

Money does not heal hearts that have been hurt by love. On the contrary, it offends them…

William James

Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.

Ahmad Javad

About these ruins that I see?! Do the words that I write Hurt your tender heart?

Jesus

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

Carl Jung

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Maria Kallas

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

Kazantzakis

The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.

Omar Khayyam

Beyond the earth, beyond the farthest skies I try to find Heaven and Hell. Then I hear a solemn voice that says: "Heaven and hell are inside.

Omar Khayyam

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

Omar Khayyam

Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since "the rest of your life" won’t last forever

Kierkegaard

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

Kornaros

"So whoever has at some time been a slave to passion, let him come and hearken to what is here written"

Krishnamurti

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

Per Lagerkvist

Bitter, too, to be forced to acknowledge in one's heart how little love has to do with kindness.

Lamartine

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends

Laozi

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Eino Leino

Oh, sensitive be to each other you should, so hearts aren’t for rocks mistaken!

Vinci da Leonardo

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

Jack London

I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet

Antonio Machado

“I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.”

Nelson Mandela

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Thomas Mann

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

Gabriel Marquez

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

Karl Marx

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Claude McKay

I must keep my heart inviolate Against the potent poison of your hate.

Michelangelo

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Edna Milley

“My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.

Yukio Mishima

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.

Gabriela Mistral

I feel my heart melting In the mildness like candles: My veins are slow oil And not wine, And I feel my life fleeing Hushed and gentle like the gazelle.

Monet

What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.

Jim Morrison

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

Guru Nanak

Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit

Pablo Neruda

By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness

George Orwell

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Amos Oz

A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.

Charlie Parker

Every time I hear a recording I've made, I hear all kinds of things I could improve or things I should have done. There's always so much more to be done in music. It's so vast.

Pascal

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Boris Pasternak

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

Octavio Paz

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Sylvia Plath

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am, I am, I am.

Elder the Pliny

Home is where the heart is”

Sergei Prokofiev

Formalism is music that people don't understand at first hearing.

Pythagoras

Do not eat your heart. meaning: Do not worry.

Quasimodo

Everyone stands alone at the heart of the world, pierced by a ray of sunlight, and suddenly it’s evening”

Remarque

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Rilke

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question.

Rilke

The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.

Rilke

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.

Rochefoucauld

In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions, such that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another.

Carl Rogers

When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me.

Jacqueline Romilly

Learning to think, to be precise, to weigh your words, to hear each other, is to be able to communicate and is the only means to stop the scary violence that is growing around us.

Nino Rota

I do what I can to give everyone a moment of happiness. This is at the heart of my music.

Henri Rousseau

“It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good. ”

Gabrielle Roy

The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.

Jalaluddin Rumi

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.

Jalaluddin Rumi

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Saadi

Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.

Sappho

Their heart grew cold / they let their wings down

Sappho

Love shook my heart, like the wind on the mountain rushing over the oak trees.

Sappho

You came and I was longing for you. You cooled a heart that burned with desire.

Saramago

In matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.

Schiller

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schubert

Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.

Robert Scott

“Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.”

Bernard Shaw

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

Ahmed Shawqiν

Do you know of someone nobler than.. he who nurtures minds and hearts

Upton Sinclair

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

Igor Stravinsky

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

Dylan Thomas

Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart push their tides.

Henry Thoreau

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Leo Tolstoy

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.

Mark Twain

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Verdi

I love art.. when I'm alone with my notes, my heart beats fast and tears run from my eyes.

Paul Verlaine

Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you.

Paul Verlaine

Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.

Vivaldi

I'm a coward. I succumbed to jealousy and now it eats my heart.

Voltaire

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

Oscar Wilde

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Thornton Wilder

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

Tennessee Williams

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

L. Wittgenstein

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.

Wollstonecraft

And, perhaps, in the education of both sexes, the most difficult task is so to adjust instruction as not to narrow the understanding, whilst the heart is warmed by the generous juices of spring.