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Quotes About Heart

At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it. You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then--and only then--it is handed to you.
~ Annie Dillard
The beauty of the world . . . has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. —Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
~ Scott Westerfeld
GeliÅŸmiÅŸ Bat? dünyas?n?n, olanaklar? ve ihtiÅŸam?yla çok zengin olduÄŸu zannedilse de çoÄŸu zaman insan kalbindeki güzellikleri öldürür.
~ Sean Penn
Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the heart.
~ Sebastian Faulks
The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings that normally we keep locked up in the heart.
~ Sebastian Faulks
something that will make the hairs of your head stand on end! The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings that normally we keep locked up in the heart. The great composers of the past were able to do this, but the musicians of today are satisfied with four notes in a line you can sell on a song-sheet at the street corner. Genius does not find its recognition quite as easily as that, my dear Madame Azaire!
~ Sebastian Faulks
I do not know what I have done to live in this existence. I do not know what any of us did to tilt the world into this unnatural orbit. We came here only for a few months. No child or future generation will ever know what this was like. They will never understand. When it is over we will go quietly among the living and we will not tell them. We will talk and sleep and go about our business like human beings. We will seal what we have seen in the silence of our hearts and no words will reach us
~ Sebastian Faulks
The problem is that it's hard to aim a rifle when your heart is pounding, which points to an irony of modern combat: it does extraordinarily violent things to the human body but requires almost dead calm to execute well.
~ Sebastian Junger
8 Better a little with righteousness than great income with injustice. 9 A man's heart plans his way, but the Lorddetermines his steps.
~ Selwyn Hughes
14 A discerning mind seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness. 15 All the days of the oppressed are miserable, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.
~ Selwyn Hughes
And every morning my heart will rise to meet the sea, which is what we know here on earth of infinity and change.
~ Sena Jeter Naslund
Why is the truth, it would seem, revealed to some and not to others? Is there a special organ for receiving revelation from God? Yes, though usually we close it and do not let it open up: God's revelation is given to something called a loving heart.
~ Seraphim Rose
Some people leave no impression at all upon your heart, no matter how often you encounter them in life. But where are also people who touch your life only once whom you cannot forget as long as you live.
~ Sh?saku End?
Were I the Moor I would not be Iago. In following him I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so for my peculiar end. For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, 'tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at. I am not what I am
~ Shakespeare William
Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty According to my bond; no more nor less.
~ Shakespeare, William
Kinder hearts are stronger, her mother had once
~ Shana Abé
When love fills one's heart, there should be no room for pride.
~ Shana Galen
But Lord Harry has a good heart. Moreover, he truly likes women. Most men do, lass, Ranulf pointed out in amusement, and was surprised when she shook her head again. No, my Lord. She contradicted him with an odd smile, one that was both cynical and sad. Most men like to lay with women.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
The movement of the heart as we practice generosity in the outer world mirrors the movement of the heart when we let go of conditioned views about ourselves on our inner journey. Letting go creates a joyful sense of space in our minds
~ Sharon Salzberg
What happens in our hearts is our field of freedom. As long as we carry old wounds and anger in our hearts, we continue to suffer. Forgiveness allows us to move on.
~ Sharon Salzberg
The heart is a generous muscle.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Forgiveness is the way we break the grip that long-held resentments have on our hearts.
~ Sharon Salzberg
The heart contracts when our bodies are overcome by shame.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Intellectually, we may appreciate that loving ourselves would give us a firm foundation but for most of us this is a leap of logic, not a leap of the heart.
~ Sharon Salzberg