Quotes About Heart

If it had been July, my heart already would have cracked for the beauty. As it was, I might die of loneliness.

Why do you suppose the poets talk about hearts?' he asked me suddenly. 'When they discuss emotional damage? The tissue of hearts is tough as a shoe. Did you ever sew up a heart?

With that one little booklet put back in place, it came as a different story. Because of that burrow through rock and water—lacuna, he called it. This time I read with a different heart, understanding the hero would still be standing at journey's end. Or at least, live or die, he'd known of a chance and aimed to take it.

You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember. Think of the vine that curls from the small square plot that was once my heart. That is the only marker you need. Move on. Walk forward into the light.

You can't let your heart go bad like that, like sour milk. There's always the chance you'll want to use it later.

The sun is all you wait for, the light, guardian saint of all the children who lie like death on the wake of the household crime. You stop your heart like a clock: these hours are not your own. You hide your life away, the lucky coin tucked quickly in the shoe from the burglar, when he Comes. Because he will, as sure as shoes.

If a way to a man's heart was through his stomach, surely the way to a mother's heart was through her children.

no such thing as death in her lexicon, and that as long as I lived and you lived she would live, too, for we would carry the memory of her in our hearts for ever.

Why would I want to do that?" I said, aware my heart had started a little giddyup just at the prospect. "We trust each other, right?" She lowered her arms, letting the smile linger for a moment, maybe acknowledging I'd handled her suggestion about as well as anyone could under the circumstances.

Of course there is a slight chance that somebody might want to give the Celestial Bookmaker a heart attack.

My heart was full of hate and love and regret-all those things that have haunted me ever since.

Brace d'inverno, I capelli tuoi, Dove il mio cuore brucia.

The soil of a man's heart is stonier [...] A man grows what he can... and he tends it - Jud Crandall, Chapter 22 (near end) Pet Sematary

The battle-fire had dropped over him, burning him everywhere with its righteous heat, sizzling his sight, frying his synapses and roasting his heart in its holy glow.

and I still feel that hate today, when so many other feelings have been burned out of my heart.

Roland's heart seemed to twist like a rag inside his chest, and there was a moment to wonder how it could possibly go on beating in the face of this.

The body was far smaller than the heart it had held

The world has given me a good life since then, I won't deny it, but sometimes I hate the world, anyway. Dick Cheney, that apologist for water boarding and for too long chief preacher in the Holy Church of Whatever it Takes, got a brand-new heart while I was writing this - how about that? He lives on; other people have died.

How its heart beats! How it struggles to get away! As we do, Paul. As we do. We think we know so much, but we really don't know any more than a rat in a trap—a rat with a broken back that thinks it still wants to live.

the secret of chanting is in the listening, not the voicing, and a circuit is completed between mind and heart that opens intuition and gently increases the volume of the still small voice within.

Approach illness as an experiment in staying present, in opening your heart in hell. Discuss how we fear our hidden pain even more than death, and how noting and mindfulness brings that pain to the surface where it can be healed.

The mind divides the world into a million pieces. The heart makes it whole.

As Nisargadatta said, 'The mind creates the abyss and the heart crosses it." Often

When reading this book, Listen to it with your heart. Let it be a mirror of your own great nature. Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge. 1