Quotes
Quotes about Heart
A woman's head is always influenced by heart; but a man's heart by his head.
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer is as inexorable as one's self!
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions--the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common--this is my symphony.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set.
