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Quotes About Heart

We can only love others to the degree that we have opened our hearts to ourselves. It is not selfish to bless ourselves first, because if our heart remains closed we have nothing to give.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
When the heart is open, good humor flows and the ego's rigidity melts like snow in the sun.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
Into the midst of all this indistinguishable cacophony of life, the bell tower of every Benedictine monastery rings "listen." Listen with the heart of Christ. Listen with the lover's ear. Listen for the voice of God. Listen in your own heart for the sound of truth, the kind that comes when a piece of quality crystal is struck by a metal rod.
~ Joan Chittister
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
~ Joan Crawford
Conceptual knowledge is so valued in our world. Yet in many cultures wisdom is equated not with knowledge but with an open heart. And
~ Joan Halifax
Every day is precious. And like is too damned short!" Ren hadn't forgotten the heart attack that had nearly killed Blackjack two years before. "Are you all right?" she asked, laying her hand on his heart. "My heart will be fine. So long as you don't break it.
~ Joan Johnston
Life isn't measured in minutes, but in heartbeats.
~ Joan Lowery Nixon
A heart filled with anger has no room for love.
~ Joan Lunden
Curiosity is not trivial; it is the respect one life pays to another. It is the largeness of mind and heart that refuses to be bounded by decorum or by desperation. It is the hardest to keep alive in the times it is most needed, the times of hatred, of instability, of attack. Surely these are such times.
~ Joan Nestle
We know in our deepest heart of hearts that unconditional love is somehow more true – more fundamental, more real, more radical (at the root) – than hate, which always seems to be confused, deluded, reactive, divisive and false. Love breeds love, and hate breeds hate. We all experience this.
~ Joan Tollifson
Christmas The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given--when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.
~ Joan Winmill Brown
Each morning, when you awaken, promise the dawn that you'll keep your heart as light as a feather. Commit again each night at sunset.
~ Joann Davis
Sweet sleep be with us, one and all! And if upon its stillness fall The visions of a busy brain, We'll have our pleasure o'er again, To warm the heart, to charm the sight, Gay dreams to all! good night, good night.
~ Joanna Baillie
A willing heart adds feather to the heel, And makes the clown a winged Mercury.
~ Joanna Baillie
Yet little varlet that thou art, thou twitchest at the heart.
~ Joanna Baillie
The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.
~ Joanna Macy
Do not try to fathom things that are beyond your reach. This is the work of… evil, nothing more. Hold on to what you do have, who you still have in your life now. Keep in your heart the promises made by God… one day, you will see the lesson, the reason… the good that came from the evil. Ym-yah'h.
~ Joanna White
Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
~ Joanne Harris
After all, words are what remain when all the deeds have been done. Words can shatter faith; start a war; change the course of history. A story can make your heart beat faster; topple walls; scale mountains - hey, a story can even raise the dead. And that's why the King of Stories ended up being the King of the gods; because writing history and making history are only the breadth of a page apart.
~ Joanne Harris
I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
~ Joanne Harris
Para mentiras las de la realidad promete todo pero nada te da, yo nunca de mentí más que por verte reir. Menos piadosas que las del corazón son las mentiras de la diosa razón, yo solo te conté media verdad al revés (que no es igual que media mentira). Mejor que yo miente la necesidad; sabe de sobra como hacerte llorar; mi crimen fue vestir de azul al príncipe gris.
~ Joaquín Sabina
I even thought her heart taught me something, in spite of its inexperience, or perhaps precisely because of it, for in matters of love one unlearns with practice, and the novice is the learned one.
~ Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
There was a beast in there. But there was also a girl who was afraid of being a beast, and who wondered if other people had beasts in their hearts too. There was strength, and there was also just the determination to look strong. She guarded herself like a secret.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
There was a beast in there. But there was also a girl who was afraid of being a beast, and who wondered if other people had beasts in their hearts too.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson