Quotes About Heart

One girl, Nic's friend, says how different the images are in our family's pictures and how intense each one is, but she says that Nic's heart leads into ventricles and my stream of chalk looks like a broken artery. Somehow I am crying. Nic's hand is on my shoulder.

worse shape than you and helping the poor person. It's about a relationship between equals. You understand their suffering. You're completely in their shoes. It comes from softening our hearts, opening up to our own and others' pain. To me, that's enlightenment.

What is true for you in your private heart is true for all men.

He had not been able to see it in himself, but looking at Hungerford, he was able at least to speculate on the possibility that fear, raw, physical fear, had a kind of gift to give, too. Who but the terrified has heard his own heart pounding, listened to his own stertorous breathing, wishing that heart and lungs would be more quiet, and yet learning in their pulsation the lessons of rhythm and metrics? (Anagrams, p. 80)

At a certain pitch of religious experience, the heart just wants to sing; it breaks into song. Paradoxically, you could say when the silence finds its fullness, it comes to word.

Many of my colleagues operate from a mistaken notion that rational thought can come from only objective discourse, devoid of emotions. To me, speaking from the heart and with passion is not antagonistic to reason.

They show us more often Than not how to die At the same time and in more ways Of doing both, of taking the first Out of the heart of the other And spreading it around…

They may have only had one pence to spend, but their hearts beamed with gold.

In her heart the girl knew that she should never ever sign over the deeds of Saxby Hall to her wicked aunt. But her heart was broken. Stella's body and spirit had been crushed by the past days and nights of terror. With her parents gone, and Soot trapped at the bottom of the icy lake, she felt she had nothing left to live for. If she signed now perhaps this nightmare would be over.

Ha! Ha!" "Don't let the bullies get you down! It's what's in here that counts," said Sid, clutching his heart. "You are a smashing boy – don't ever forget that!

inside of a man lies a heart, but in a heart does not lie a man.

The French philosopher Camus used to tell himself quietly to live to the point of tears, not as a call for maudlin sentimentality, but as an invitation to the deep privilege of belonging and the way belonging affects us, shapes us and breaks our heart at a fundamental level.

now. She reaches out and touches the scar at my neck. It's almost healed, but it's still tender. 'It's the only one that shows.' 'What?' She smiles sadly. 'Look at you, Otto. You're a classic, you know that? Walking wounded. A bullet to the heart, endlessly repeated.' My mouth is suddenly dry. I go to speak, but she shakes her head, then turns and orders two more whiskies. Doubles.

Sound filled the room, a crystal melody that could lift any human heart and turn away any devil. It was "Here I Go Again" by Whitesnake.

It was as if, within that still winter night's vastness a strange soft-feathered bird of passage had come to beat its hopeless wings against the windows of her heart.

As soon as you wake up in the morning, place your hand over your heart and feel love.

I had listened to my heart, and this is where it had led me

You can't have true love if it does not blossom in your heart.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.

The Trusting Heart, Dr. Williams describes how this research evolved.) In particular, the factors most toxic to the heart are self-involvement, hostility, and cynicism.

Even if you can't open your heart to people, open your heart to God; then you will know how to open your heart to people also.

In contrast, when a coronary artery in your heart is only 30–40 percent blocked, it is more unstable because it's not calcified, and it has not had time to grow a protective network of collaterals. This is why these are called "vulnerable plaques"—because they are more likely to rupture and cause a sudden total obstruction, known as "catastrophic progression," which is as bad as it sounds.