Quotations on Heart

27 of more than 100 from Rob Kall’s primary quotation database on heart. If you use any of these quotes in a book, please credit Rob Kall and this website in your acknowledgments section.   Publisherss: Rob Kall is interested in projects regarding quotations

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"Genuine simplicity of Heart is a Healing and cementing principle."

BURKE, EDMUND

 

"God ...has placed the world in man's heart; yet cannot man find out the work which God worketh from beginning to end."

Solomon, quoted by Bacon

 

"We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;

In feelings, not in figures on a dial.

We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives

Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best."

Bailey, FESTUS

 

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."

BIBLE Matthew, VI, 21

 

To a young heart everything is fun.

Dickens, Charles

 

 

HEART

Life goes headlong. We chase some flying scheme, or we are hunted by some fear or command behind us. But if sudenly we encounter a friend, we pause; our heat and hurry look foolish enough. A friend is the hope of the heart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

 

"His heart was open as the day,

His Feelings were all true:"

Greene, Albert G., Old Grimes

 

CONNECTING INTERACTION SOCIAL

Happiness, like a refreshing stream, flows from heart to heart in endless circulation.

Grove, Henry

 

"And there is even a happiness that makes the heart afraid."

Hood, Thomas, Ode to Melancholy

 

INTELLECTUALISM, LEFT BRAIN, NARROW FOCUS

"The movements of exaltation which belong to genius are egotistic by their very nature. A calm, clear mind, not subject to the spasms and crises which are so often met with in creative or intensely perceptive natures, is the best basis for love or friendship. --Observe, I am talking about minds. I won't say, the more intellect, the less capacity for loving; for that would do wrong to the understanding and reason;-- but on the other hand, that the brain runs away with the heart's best blood, which gives the world a few pages of wisdom or sentiment or poetry, instead of making one other heart happy, I have no question."

Holmes, O.W.THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLEINGELOW, JEAN, b.1830-?

 

FEELING, INTENSITY, RECEPTIVITY

"When the heart is still agitated by the remains of a passion, we are more ready to receive a new one than when we are entirely cured."

La Rochefoucauld

 

RELAX, RELEASE, PLAY, JOY, HAPPINESS, LETTING GO,

"The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart."

Mencius (372-289 BC)

 

 

'T is the heart's voice alone can reach the heart."

Musset, Alfred De,

 

"A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance."

Proverbs, XV.

 

"Small privations are easily endured when the heart receives better treatment than the body."

Rousseau, J.J. , Les Reveries

 

OPPORTUNITY --"HEART" "LOVE"

"It is always another's heart that makes us feel our own."

Saurin Jacques , 1677-1730 "Harbottle & Dalbiac

 

 

A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fools heart is at his left.

Bible

 

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.

Sir P. Sidney

 

When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.

Napoleon

 

Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything.

Rivarol

 

THe wrinkles of the heart are more indelible than those of the brow.

Madame Deluzy

 

What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domestic circle, tumultuous at school.

Disreali

 

There are chords in the human heart-- strange, varying strings-- which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch.

Dickens

 

A royal heart is often hidden under a tattered cloak.

Danish pr

 

Hearts alone buy hearts.

proverb

 

The dreariest poverty is that of the heart. Banish this , and we shall all be rich.

Bovee

 

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.

Bulwer Lytton

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