Quotes About Heart

The return to anywhere you last visited as a child is difficult, especially when it's a door. Your heart beats harder when you knock.

In the human heart, there is always a great tendency to glorify one's own weaknesses with some convenient angelic name and divine pose.

But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.

The problem is this: Often the heart and mind disagree. Fervently.

making a gut-level emotional connection.

The Heart of Change, by John Kotter and Dan Cohen [Business and organizational change].

For the eyes of the Lord move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His" (2 Chronicles 16:9 nasb).

we cannot force ourselves to love—or to withhold it. At best, we can curb our actions. The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.

Love. There's no argument, no matter how strong, that can overcome that word.

Because it is the lot of mothers to remember what no one else cares to, Mrs. Dutta thinks. To tell them over and over until they are lodged, perforce, in family lore. We are the keepers of the heart's dusty corners.

Every person has a heart, but we're not always lucky enough to get a glimpse of it. And every heart, even the hardest, has a fragile spot. If you hit it there, it shatters.

Ah, now I have learned how deep in the human heart vanity lies, vanity which is the other face of the fear of being unloved.

Is the desire for vengeance stronger than the longing to be loved? What evil magic does it possess to draw the human heart so powerfully to it?

O exhilaration, I thought. To be lifted up through the eye of chaos, to balance breath-stopped on the edge of nothing. And the plunge that would follow, the shattering of my matchstick body to smithereens, the bones flying free as foam, the heart finally released.

And if I wasn't able to bar anger, or her insidious cousin, irritation, From my heart, at least some of the time I bit back the sharp comments that I had prided myself on dispensing so freely all these years.

advise you to forget about love, princess. Pleasure is simpler, and duty more important. Learn to be satisfied with them." I should have believed her and modified my expectations. But I didn't. Deep in my stubborn heart I was convinced I deserved more.

You are thinking, what does it look like, such a knife. Most ordinary, for that is the nature of deepest magic. Deepest magic which lies at the heart of our everyday lives, flickering fire, if only we had eyes to see.

We are the keepers of the heart's dusty corners.

sometimes one has to drop logic and go with the instinct of the heart, even if it contradicts law.

I've done nothing wrong - nothing except follow my heart. But the world is cruel to women who love.

If there is one thing his story has taught me, it is that when all the dross is melted away from the human heart, only gold remains.

Trying to show you something. The stick—it scared you, right? It may even have hurt you, if you hadn't been so quick. But look—in trying to burn you, it's consuming itself. That's what happens to a heart—

When the solar plexus chakra is overdeveloped and the heart chakra is underdeveloped, or when the lower emotions are active and the higher emotions are underdeveloped, then the mind would likely be used destructively. Without the development of the heart in most people, world peace will not be possible. This is why the development of the heart should be emphasized in the educational system.

Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.