Heart famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
-- A. A. Milne -
Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
-- A. A. Milne -
Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
-- A. A. Milne -
May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.
-- A. B. Simpson -
Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.
-- A. B. Simpson -
The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.
-- A. B. Simpson -
The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.
-- A. B. Simpson -
The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.
-- A. B. Simpson -
No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.
-- A. C. Green -
Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I'd throw the thought away. To put the world between us We parted stiff and dry: 'Farewell,' said you, 'forget me.' 'Fare well, I will,' said I. If e'er, where clover whitens The dead man's knoll, you pass, And no tall flower to meet you Starts in the trefoiled grass, Halt by the headstone shading The heart you have not stirred, And say the lad that loved you Was one that kept his word.
-- A. E. Housman -
Could man be drunk for ever    With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning    And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober    And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten    Their hands upon their hearts.
-- A. E. Housman -
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
-- A. E. Housman -
But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts
-- A. E. Housman -
I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.
-- A. E. Housman -
Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
-- A. E. Housman -
His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
-- A. E. Housman -
With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.
-- A. E. Housman -
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.
-- A. E. Housman -
To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.
-- A. H. Almaas -
If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick.
-- A. J. Langer -
I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
-- A. J. McLean -
But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart I am a big teddy bear.
-- A. J. McLean -
A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar purity of the blue sky seen through the white clusters of apple blossom in spring. I remember being moonstruck looking at it one morning early on my way to school. It meant something for me; what, I couldn't say. It gave me such an unease at heart, some reaching out towards perfection such as impels men into religion, some sense of the transcendence of things, of the fragility of our hold on life.
-- A. L. Rowse -
Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.
-- A. Philip Randolph -
Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.
-- A. Powell Davies -
You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.
-- A. Powell Davies -
In my opinion, everybody has the same soul from God and we are united by that. Outside, our bodies are different, our faces are different, but inside we are all the same, we share the same feelings of sadness, love, pain My music comes out of these feelings. Whether it is Japanese music, African, Qawalli, or any other form of music, if it touches your heart it becomes important for me.
-- A. R. Rahman -
If a musician wants to blossom into a full-fledged person, it's not enough if he knows only classical music; nor it is enough if he's well-versed only in raagas and techniques. Instead, he should be a knowledgeable person interested in life and philosophy. In his personal life there should be, atleast in some corner of his heart, a tinge of lingering sorrow.
-- A. R. Rahman -
An odd phrase, "by heart," he would add, as though poems were stored in the bloodstream.
-- A. S. Byatt -
Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.
-- A.J. Cronin -
If Allah has written for you happiness, no one can steal that from you, and if He has written for your heart to break, then no-one can mend it but He, so always put your trust in Allah.
-- Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni -
Contentment empties the heart of all superfluous carriage, thus leaving it entirely for Allah.
-- Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni -
You have to enjoy your job; you should wake up every day and love what you do... I honestly do... From the bottom of my heart to the depths of my soul. I'm truly happy.
-- Aaliyah -
It's been so long and I'm lost without you, what am I gonna do? I been needin' you, wantin' you, wonderin' if you're the same and who's been with you. Is your heart still mine? I wanna cry sometimes ... I miss you.
-- Aaliyah -
Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.
-- Aaron Hill -
O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.
-- Aaron Hill -
If you are serious, don't play with my heart, it makes me furious.
-- Aaron Neville -
People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.
-- Aaron Stanford -
What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
-- Abbe Pierre -
The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.
-- Abbey Lincoln -
Hearts don’t realize they’ve been lied to. They still love anyway.
-- Abbi Glines -
I dropped my phone on the floor and let the pain assail me. I'd given my heart away to someone who didn't want it. Even knowing that, I didn't regret it. I just wanted him to want me. I just wanted him to love me too.
-- Abbi Glines -
The love she left behind will be the reason dreams are reached. She was the rock in a world that was crumbling. Her strength will remain. It’s in our hearts.
-- Abbi Glines -
My forgiving you doesn't make my heart hurt less. It takes awhile to heal.
-- Abbi Glines -
It had been three weeks, four days and twelve hours since I'd seen her. Since she'd torn my heart out. If I had been drinking, I'd blame it on the alcohol. It had to be an illusion, a desperate one. But I hadn't been drinking. Not a drop. There was no mistaking Blaire. It was her. She was actually here. Blaire was back in Rosemary. She was at my house.
-- Abbi Glines -
The heart wants who the heart wants. We can't help that.
-- Abbi Glines -
Okay. If you want to do this thing with Marcus then fine. I’ll take it and deal with it. But when he hurts you. When he lets you down, I’ll be here. My arms are always open for you to run into. I want you happy and if you think this ***** will make you happy then fine. You need to live a little too. I can’t protect you from everything, but I can be here to hold you when he breaks your heart.
-- Abbi Glines -
I love you,†I said, causing his face to contort in pain. “I’m not a man so I do not have a heart that loves as a human does. I’m an immortal god that dwells with supreme power because I hold the keys to Death. But you are my existence. I am yours.†Hot tears streamed down my face as I stared into the face of someone who comprehended an emotion much stronger than my weak, feeble words of love.
-- Abbi Glines -
Inside I knew he was meant to be the guy that taught me about life. Even if he broke my heart eventually.
-- Abbi Glines -
With Woods arms wrapped around me and the beat of his heart pressed against my chest, I knew he would hold me steady. If I ever fell, I’d have him to catch me.
-- Abbi Glines -
This Bible, then, has a mission, grander than any mere creation of God; for in this volume are infinite wisdom, and infinite love. Between its covers are the mind and heart of God; and they are for man's good, for his salvation, his guidance, his spiritual nourishment. If now I neglect my Bible, I do my soul a wrong; for the fact of this Divine message is evidence that I need it.
-- Abbott Eliot Kittredge -
The diurnal sun sets at night, but the sun of the heart never disappears.
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi -
Turn your face toward the sacred Mosque (Koran 2:144,149,150) Commentary: The word "sacred" means that a heart which has not disengaged itself from the sphere of the soul and the sphere of created beings is forbidden to penetrate into this place. . . . "Wherever you are, turn your face" [toward the sacred Mosque] means, "Wherever you are, in the accomplishment of works of worship or in the ordinary acts of life, contemplate Him - in what you eat, in what you drink, in him or her whom you marry, always knowing that He is at once the Contemplator and the Contemplated. . . ."
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi -
I'm not a handsome guy, but I can give my hand to someone who needs help. Beauty is in the heart, not in the face.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of this world. Turn away from vanity and seek Him in the recesses of your heart and soul
-- Abdul-Qadir Gilani -
Never break a Muslim's heart by refusing what he offers you, when you know that anything that comes to you through him is in reality from Allah, and he is only His powerless and compelled means.
-- Abdullah ibn Alawi al-Haddad -
Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.
-- Abdullah ibn Alawi al-Haddad -
Sins slowly suffocate the heart, and abandoning sins brings life to the heart.
-- Abdullah ibn Mubarak -
Approach or come: refers not to the physical act of coming, but to the mental attitude; the heart is mentioned for sincerity. When they sincerely promise not to fight against you, do not pursue them. Remember that if they had fought against you, your difficulties would have been increased. Their neutrality itself may be a great advantage to you. So long as you are satisfied that they are sincere and their acts support their declarations of peace with you, you should not consider yourself justified in pursuing them and warring against them.
-- Abdullah Yusuf Ali -
Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
-- Abel Ferrara -
A woman . . . always feels herself complimented by love, though it may be from a man incapable of winning her heart, or perhaps even her esteem.
-- Abel Stevens -
Only those who love with the heart can animate the love of others.
-- Abel Stevens -
What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.
-- Aberjhani -
Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.
-- Aberjhani -
Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.
-- Aberjhani -
At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.
-- Aberjhani -
My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
-- Abigail Adams -
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
-- Abigail Adams -
Outside your door, the world is waiting. Inside your heart, a voice is calling. The four corners of the world are watching. So travel, daughter, travel. Go get it, girl.
-- Abigail Washburn -
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
-- Abraham Cahan -
I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be, The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.
-- Abraham Coles -
Who has not seen that feeling born of flame Crimson the cheek at mention of a name? The rapturous touch of some divine surpriseFlash deep suffusion of celestial dyes: When hands clasped hands, and lips to lips were pressed, And the heart's secret was at once confessed?
-- Abraham Coles -
It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.
-- Abraham Cowley -
Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language. the world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable. It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear--filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind--these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell. It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
-- Abraham Kuyper -
The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!
-- Abraham Kuyper -
We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
-- Abraham Verghese -
I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
-- Abraham Verghese -
My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they'll leave in people's hearts. They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
-- Abraham Verghese -
When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart...
-- Abraham Verghese -
The heartbrokenness of the sinner is better than the forcefulness of the obedient
-- Abu Madyan -
Sit with the repentant, for they have the softest hearts.
-- Abu Nu`aym -
I've never read anything about ***** where, yeah, it's a good experience, and you can do it for 20 years and enjoy it, like having a cold beer. It doesn't work that way with heroin.
-- Ace Frehley -
I got a head full of headaches, a heart that's full of woes. I'm constantly singin' them down home blues, and not many people knows That leaves me with a twisted view of the whole wide world as I know it... And I guess I got no choice but to be a poet.
-- Aceyalone -
The world is witnessing first hand, live on television, the hearts ofAmerican warriors - and the spirit and pride only displayed by magnificent young men and women who are volunteers in the fight for the cause of freedom. Its all about heart.
-- Ada F Kay -
It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
-- Adam Clarke -
Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man's heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul from earth to heaven...
-- Adam Clarke
