Heart Quotes

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Thomas Carlyle

Love, Humor, True

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.
Soren Kierkegaard

Long, Die, Since

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
Honore de Balzac

Love, Nothing, Flower

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
St. Jerome

Mind, Eyes, Face

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.
Humphry Davy

Life, Great, Kindness

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Eyes, Cannot, Hear

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.
Thomas Paine

Italy, Dagger, Vatican

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
Victor Hugo

Love, Human, Try

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
Victor Hugo

Purse, Filled, Emptied

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Tecumseh

Life, Death, Fear

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
Homer

Time, Good, Learned

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
Mignon McLaughlin

Rules, Head, Crime

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Work, Great, Action

Purity of heart is to will one thing.
Soren Kierkegaard

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
Dan Millman

Life, Faith, Feeling

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
Fran Lebowitz

Find, Old, Place

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
William Wordsworth

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
Joe Paterno

Mind, Loyalty, Confidence

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
Homer

Hell, Another, Hateful

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
Thomas Carlyle

Before, Head, Sees

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Find, Another, Whatever

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great, Shows, Prosperity

I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.
Princess Diana

Book, Head, Lead

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
George Eliot

Jealousy, Short, Satisfied

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
Louis Nizer

Brain, Artist, Hands

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
Washington Irving

Friends, Sun, Sweet

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
John Ruskin

Art, Together, Hand

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
Homer

Known, Worse, Thou

Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.
Sophia Bush

Time, Best, Amazing

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
William Butler Yeats

Long, May, Sacrifice

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