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Quotes including the word “heart”.

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Alfred Adler

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

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.

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?

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…

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Amos Oz

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

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.

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”

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.

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.

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.

Dylan Thomas

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

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.

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.

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.