Quotes About Heart

The lace flowed in a V down the bodice to mirror the cut of the back of the dress. I looked like someone else in it, someone older and wiser. Someone with a pure heart that held no secrets. Someone … not like me.

Hear the language that isn't spoken, Kazi, the breaths, the pauses, the fisted hands, the vacant stares, the twitches and tears, for everyone can hear spoken words, but only a few can hear the heart that beats behind them.

Listen. Hear the language that isn't spoken, for everyone can hear spoken words, but only a few can hear the heart that beats behind them.

Prepare your hearts, for we must not only be ready for the enemy without, but also the enemy within.

Prepare your hearts, For we must not only be ready for the enemy without, but also the enemy within. —Song of Jezelia

gods and angels destroyed the world when men aspired to be gods and mercy had fled their hearts.

Farewell! Dearest and most beloved of men_whatever may be my fate_be happiness yours! Once more, my lingering, foreboding heart, repeats farewell!

Grandpapa doesn't want to lose Nelly," Eliza said. "Grandpapa is only aware of the trail of belongings Nelly has lost on this trip and thinks she had better wait before she loses her heart, too," he retorted.

God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection; to give our shoulds higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts. My soul blesses the great Father, every day, that he has gladdened the earth with little children

Giving in its purest form is done with a heart that says I wish it were more, and I expect nothing in return.

She always imagined the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and Blessed Mother as points of light in the center of her heart, and as she prayed, the light expanded, flowing through her body and soul, smoothing away knots of guilt and sorrow and fear until her whole being glowed with harmony.

How much does anyone ever know about another man's heart?

What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

You ride like a centaur," he said tartly. "And almost stopped my heart in the process." Her eyes widened with such innocence that he knew she was baiting him. Grinning, he dismounted and opened the gate. "After what you've achieved today, I suppose you're entitled to your fun. But if I have gray hairs tomorrow, it will be your fault." She took off for home at an easy trot, her enchanting laughter floating behind her.

Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't.

Sometimes you have to trust your heart, too. You give what you think the other person needs, and hope they know that you're doing it out of love.

Being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred him to remove your brain or your heart.

Finding the God Boxes was like reading Mom´s heart. [...] Her unconditional belief in God came alive for me.

Keep your warm hearts, your gentleness, and your courage. These will do just as well as magic.

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.

We may be heartened by our sojourns on Sinai, but no man may live his life in the clouds. And what does pragmatism mean if not just this? We can only, as James told us again and again, understand the collective and distributive by living. Life is the true revealer: I can never understand the whole by reason, only when the heart-beat of the whole throbs through me as the pulse of my own being.

Give us a song to cheer        Our weary hearts,               a song of home,        And friends we love so dear.

Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart.

The gods, in kindness to mankind, have put in most men's hearts the wish to be loved and honored, even when they greatly wish for power. Power is the test. Some, once they have it, are content to buy the show of liking, and punish those who withhold it; then you have a despot. But some keep a true eye for how they seem to others, and care about it, which holds them back from much mischief.