The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
~By Helen Keller ~
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
~By Edwin Hubbel Chapin ~
Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.
~By John Pomfret ~
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
~By Bernard de Mandeville ~
For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her trip abroad: she was in a very relaxed, understanding environment. I was very sympathetic towards her.
~By Jung Chang ~
As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
~By Golda Meir ~
You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book.
~By Neil Jordan ~
Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.
~By Jane Grey ~
I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.
~By Gene Simmons ~
I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. Know what I'm saying? Move past the fear.
~By LL Cool J ~
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The logic of the heart is absurd.
~By Julie de Lespinasse ~
When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.
~By Kate Chopin ~
When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.
~By George W. Bush ~
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
~By Charles Dickens ~
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
~By John Muir ~
Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.
~By John Buchan ~
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
~By Sidney Hook ~
I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.
~By Julia Roberts ~
All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.
~By Lloyd Alexander ~
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
~By Dalai Lama ~
If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
~By Jesse Jackson ~
If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
~By Edmund Wilson ~
With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart.
~By Tom Wopat ~
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
~By Maya Angelou ~
The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.
~By James Thomson ~
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
~By Anthony de Mello ~
The condition of the wounded touched my heart deeply.
~By Christiaan Rudolf de Wet ~
I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say.
~By Mike Tyson ~
You don't buy a Harley with your mind, you buy it with your heart and your balls.
~By Robert Patrick ~
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.
~By Edward Irving ~
No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
~By Olive Schreiner ~
Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.
~By Karl Shapiro ~
I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.
~By Lalu Prasad Yadav ~
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
~By Carlos Santana ~
My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.
~By Barry Sanders ~
The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.
~By Alva Myrdal ~
I love directing. It's where my heart is, and it's the way my mind works.
~By Melissa Joan Hart ~
Make my breast transparent as pure crystal, that the world, jealous of me, may see the foulest thought my heart does hold.
~By George Villiers ~
The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.
~By Raymond Holliwell ~
I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write.
~By Tim Gane ~
If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick.
~By A. J. Langer ~
Nature is not human hearted.
~By Lao Tzu ~
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
~By John Greenleaf Whittier ~
A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.
~By Carlos Castenada ~
A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest.
~By Elle Macpherson ~
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
~By William Hazlitt ~
In order to be discipled by others a person must have a trusting heart, one that listens even when it doesn't fully comprehend or see the end result.
~By Ed Townsend ~
Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.
~By Henry Brooks Adams ~
As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me.
~By Robert Sheckley ~
The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.
~By Olivier Messiaen ~
May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
~By J. Reuben Clark ~
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
~By Louise Bogan ~
Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.
~By Anna Julia Cooper ~
Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!
~By Bobby Darin ~
Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.
~By Joseph Auslander ~
The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.
~By Harry A. Blackmun ~
My dear friend Jimmie Dodd was the heart and the soul of The Mickey Mouse Club.
~By Annette Funicello ~
Also everyone's hearts are in the right place when you do a small movie. You're not doing it for the money; you're not doing it for the possibility of an Oscar nomination. You are doing it because you love the material.
~By Kyra Sedgwick ~
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
~By Epictetus ~
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
~By Barbara de Angelis ~
I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.
~By Steve Earle ~
My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
~By Dennis Gabor ~
The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!
~By Allen Tate ~
My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.
~By Jack Bowman ~
At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood.
~By Samuel West ~
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.
~By Jiddu Krishnamurti ~
There are a hell of a lot of jobs that are scarier than live comedy. Like standing in the operating room when a guy's heart stops, and you're the one who has to fix it!
~By Jon Stewart ~
Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.
~By Avi Arad ~
I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.
~By Gerard Manley Hopkins ~
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
~By James Thurber ~
But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities.
~By Anita Hill ~
Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
~By Carl Orff ~
I'm a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life.
~By Willie Stargell ~
Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
~By Ludwig van Beethoven ~
But a true diva has dismissed that drama. A true diva's heart is open, and she's ready to play by her own rules - rules that are gentle and kind.
~By Jenifer Lewis ~
My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains.
~By Du Fu ~
Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.
~By Gloria Estefan ~
Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!
~By Kevin Spacey ~
It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
~By Anatole France ~
The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.
~By Stanislaw Lec ~
Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
~By Dan Brown ~
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
~By Fernando Pessoa ~
I am heartbroken that this movie would cause anyone pain. It should be a source of joy. The story is a metaphor about how we try to stay in our own little bubbles, we don't let life in, we don't take the journey.
~By Swoosie Kurtz ~
The bashful are always aggressive at heart.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
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.
~By Nikola Tesla ~
Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.
~By Philip Guston ~
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
~By Thomas Bailey Aldrich ~
I really create everything I do from the heart.
~By Kenny G ~
This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level.
~By Boz Scaggs ~
I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege.
~By Mary Chapin Carpenter ~
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