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Quotes About Heart

Nondum amabam, et amare amabam. (No amé, pero anhelaba amar)
~ Bernard Cornwell
You can change a man's heart, but not his head.
~ Bernard Cornwell
He thinks with his heart, Uhtred,' Alfred said, 'not his head. You can change a man's heart, but not his head.
~ Bernard Cornwell
I do understand that you can look into someone's eyes,' I heard myself saying, 'and suddenly know that life will be impossible without them. Know that their voice can make your heart miss a beat and that their company is all your happiness can ever desire and that their absence will leave your soul alone, bereft and lost.
~ Bernard Cornwell
life is an adventure to be embraced with an open mind and loving heart
~ Bernardine Evaristo
Science can teach us, and I think our hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supporters, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make the world a fit place to live.
~ Bertrand Russell
It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of certain kinds of skill, and too little an enlargement of the mind and heart by an impartial survey of the world.
~ Bertrand Russell
Nothing can penetrate the loneliness of the human heart except the highest intensity of the sort of love the religious teachers have preached.
~ Bertrand Russell
What you say about changing one's self denial is only too true and terrible - it went to my heart - one does form a habit, and then it is no bother.
~ Bertrand Russell
The close connection between virtue and knowledge is characteristic of Socrates and Plato. To some degree, it exists in all Greek thought, as opposed to that of Christianity. In Christian ethics, a pure heart is the essential, and is at least as likely to be found among the ignorant as among the learned. This difference between Greek and Christian ethics has persisted down to the present day.
~ Bertrand Russell
Vanity is a motive of immense potency. Anyone who has much to do with children knows how they are constantly performing some antic, and saying Look at me. Look at me is one of the most fundamental desires of the human heart. It can take innumerable forms, from buffoonery to the pursuit of posthumous fame.
~ Bertrand Russell
And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
~ Bertrand Russell
I speak from the heart words I have no right to say. Words that I should have never uttered to you, yet I cannot help myself. I love you and I shall love you through eternity itself.
~ Bertrice Small
There is respect for a heart like yours, and if its beating stop, the spirit lives to guard the ways you wandered.
~ Beryl Markham
Names are keys that open corridors no longer fresh in the mind, but nonetheless familiar in the heart.
~ Beryl Markham
Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.
~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with a melody that would last forever. Even though you grew up and found you could never quite bring back the magic feeling of this night, the melody would stay in your heart always - a song for all the years.
~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
Home was something besides so much lumber and plaster. You built your thoughts into the frame work. You planted a little of your heart with the trees and the shrubbery.
~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
You can make a decision with your head. It still takes your heart a while to catch up with it.
~ Beth Goobie
don't grow up to fast, darling. Age is inevitable, but if you nuture a childlike heart, you'll never ever grow old.
~ beth hoffman
far too many people die with a heart thats gone flat with indiferance, and it surely must be a terrible way to go. Life will offer amazing oppurtunities, but we've got to be wide-awake to recognize them.
~ beth hoffman
Don't grow up too fast, Darling. Age is inevitable, but if you nurture a childlike heart, you'll never, ever grow old.
~ beth hoffman
far too many people die with a heart that's gone flat with indifference, and it surely must be a terrible way to go. Life will offer us amazing opportunities, but we've got to be wide-awke to recognize them.
~ beth hoffman
A statement made from the heart has an aroma, it has lights, it has earth and sun and moon. It is colorful and it grasps the attention of those around you, like the sunset.
~ Beth Johnson