Heart famous quotes
Last updated: Jul 22, 2024
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Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.
-- Andy Andrews -
In desperate times, much more than anything else, folks need perspective. For perspective brings calm. Calm leads to clear thinking. Clear thinking yields new ideas. And ideas produce the bloom...of an answer. Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.
-- Andy Andrews -
The very beating of your heart has meaning and purpose. Your actions have value far greater than silver or gold.
-- Andy Andrews -
Most people fail at whatever they attempt because of an undecided heart. Should I? Should I not? Go forward? Go back? Success requires the emotional balance of a committed heart. When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape. A committed heart does not wait for conditions to be exactly right. Why? Because conditions are never exactly right.
-- Andy Andrews -
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After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart.
-- Andy Andrews -
A committed heart does not wait for conditions to be exactly right. Why? Because conditions are never exactly right. Indecision limits The Almighty and His ability to perform miracles in your life. He has put the vision in you - proceed! To wait, to wonder, to doubt, to be indecisive is to disobey God.
-- Andy Andrews -
You can't save the world...save YOUR heart. Be a catalyst & create a life where you are powerful. Rebel. Be happy & allow others happiness.
-- Andy Biersack -
Life isn't about how popular you are What girl or boy you are dating or who you know. Life is about always being true to who you are or what you believe in. Never let anyone convince you that their way is better than your way. In the end all we have is our hearts.. and our minds. This is the reason we sing.. this is the reason we cry this is why we live.
-- Andy Biersack -
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I encourage all of you to find strength within yourself, no matter what. Be proud of who you are and never let anyone or anything take that away from you. Inner Strength is something that we are all born with. However, I've learned that it requires patience and perseverance to fully achieve it. I promise you, though, that as long as you know in your heart who you are and what you want from this world, nothing is gonna stop you.
-- Andy Biersack -
As we grow up we learn that even the person that wasnt supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it gets harder every time. Youll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. Youll fight with your best friend. Youll blame a new love for things an old one did. Youll cry because time is passing too fast, and youll eventually lose someone you love, so take many pictures, laugh too much and love like youve never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is one minute of happiness youll never get back.
-- Andy Biersack -
Time confined into blind caves or extended through tunnels, responds to the call of infinity, which teases with its promise of freedom. outside the body, time is a pair of compasses in the hands of eternity, but inside it is a pendulum, fastened to the heart. the heart takes its measure from the lengthening swing of the pendulum surveying what time is left. in its own rhythm time spreads itself wildly here and there and is crippled elsewhere. its unequally distributed weight wounds my body - that is how the particularities of my life are manifest.
-- Andy Goldsworthy -
At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature; most days I don't even get close. These things are all part of a transient process that I cannot understand unless my touch is also transient - only in this way can the cycle remain unbroken and the process be complete.
-- Andy Goldsworthy -
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Brain gets bent, heart gets broken You can't jump off once the pages turn School is out but never over That's the only lesson you can learn
-- Andy Partridge -
For a heart without love is a song with no words And a tune to which no one is listening So your heart must give love and you'll find that You shine like rain on the leaves you'll be glistening.
-- Andy Partridge -
I've learned... That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.
-- Andy Rooney -
For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don't necessarily look like themselves. And yet you've still got the heart and soul of the performance.
-- Andy Serkis -
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It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.
-- Andy Stanley -
Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.
-- Andy Stanley -
Everything now will prepare you for the next step. Don't run from adversity; lean into it with all your heart and God will make you a leader worth following.
-- Andy Stanley -
No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
-- Aneurin Bevan -
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I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.
-- Ang Lee -
Beautifully-acted and precisely observed, ILO ILO is an amazing debut, full of heart and intelligence.
-- Ang Lee -
His touch both consoles and devastates me; I feel my heart pulse, then wither, naked as a stone on the roaring mattress while the lovely, moony night slides through the window to dapple the flanks of this innocent who makes cages to keep the sweet birds in. Eat me, drink me; thirsty, cankered, goblin-ridden, I go back and back to him to have his fingers strip the tattered skin away and clothe me in his dress of water, this garment that drenches me, its slithering odour, its capacity for drowning.
-- Angela Carter -
A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy.
-- Angela Carter -
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Maybe his heart is searching for and not finding the place it used to live. I understand that because mine is searching and not finding too.
-- Angela Johnson -
I have a special place in my heart for working moms - it's a constant pull on your heartstrings.
-- Angela Kinsey -
Do not lose heart, even if you should discover that you lack qualities necessary for the work to which you are called. He who called you will not desert you, but the moment you are in need he will stretch out his saving hand.
-- Angela Merici -
If we but paused for a moment to consider attentively what takes place in this Sacrament, I am sure that the thought of Christ's love for us would transform the coldness of our hearts into a fire of love and gratitude.
-- Angela of Foligno -
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It is the Sacrament of Love that excites the soul to ardent prayer. It stirs up the virtue of impetration and, as it were, forces God to grant our petition. It deepens the abyss of humility, above all it enkindles the flame of love in the heart; hence the Sacrament is the Gift of gifts, and the Grace of graces
-- Angela of Foligno -
Without humility of heart all the other virtues by which one runs toward God seem - and are - absolutely worthless.
-- Angela of Foligno -
The four Ways reflect a pervasive belief that life will be simple if we practice four basic principles: Show up or choose to be present, Pay attention to what has heart and meaning, Tell the truth without blame or judgment, and Be open, rather than attached to, the outcome.
-- Angeles Arrien -
One day, a woman found herself standing at Heaven's gate. The angels' only question to her was, "Zusai, why weren't you Zusai?" Within that simple question lies the heart of all our soul work. If you are David, why aren't you fully David? If you are Susan, why aren't you completely Susan? We are here on Earth to become who we are meant to be.
-- Angeles Arrien -
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We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.
-- Angelina Grimke -
There is something in the heart of man which will bend under moral suasion. There is a swift witness for truth in his bosom, which will respond to truth when it is uttered with calmness and dignity.
-- Angelina Grimke -
Refugees have done more for my heart and my spirit than I can ever express in words.
-- Angelina Jolie -
If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.
-- Angelina Jolie -
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Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.
-- Angelique Kidjo -
If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.
-- Angelus Silesius -
Do not seek God in outer space-- Your heart is the only place in which to meet Him face to face.
-- Angelus Silesius -
We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.
-- Angelus Silesius -
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Kyra Sedgwick told me, 'Keep your heart where your feet are' and that's incredibly difficult to do. It takes a lot of concentration. You've got to be conscientious of each other.
-- Angie Harmon -
We’re all women. We all have the same wonderful situations happen to us, the same horrific situations. We all get our hearts broken.
-- Angie Harmon -
It breaks my heart that I don't see my daughters every day, don't get to hug them and brush their hair.
-- Angie Harmon -
We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart.
-- Angie Martinez -
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People are able to live with only half a heart, to live without real compassion, because they are able to use words that are only forms.
-- Angus Wilson -
I know my mind is made of matter but I need to know exactly what is the matter at it's core? Because my heart is just a muscle and simply put, it's sore.
-- Ani DiFranco -
You broke me bodily. The heart ain't the half of it, And I'll never learn to laugh at it In my good natured way. In fact, I'm laughing less in general, But I learned a lot at my own funeral. And I knew you'd be the death of me, So I guess that's the price I pay.
-- Ani DiFranco -
My heart was too big for my body, so I let it go.
-- Anis Mojgani -
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Do not let one moment go by that doesn’t remind you that your heart beats 900 times a day, and there are enough gallons of blood to make everyone of you oceans
-- Anis Mojgani -
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
-- Anita Diament -
My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
-- Anita Diament -
I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.
-- Anita Diament -
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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
-- Anita Hill -
The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.
-- Anita Roddick -
To me the desire to create and to have control over your own life, irrespective of the politics of the time or social structures, has always been a part of the human spirit. What I did not fully realize was that work could open the doors to my heart.
-- Anita Roddick -
The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.
-- Anita Shreve -
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The Christians and Jews can live side by side with the Muslims, as they did in the heart of Europe for over 800 years in Andalusia.
-- Anjem Choudary -
For I need this scar over my heart to remind me. Crazy as it sounds, if I can bear the wound on my body, it lessens what I must carry on my soul. How he knew that about me, I cannot fathom.
-- Ann Aguirre -
She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.
-- Ann Brashares -
You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.
-- Ann Brashares -
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Beauty doesn't matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.
-- Ann Curry -
If you have a beating heart, that's good enough.
-- Ann Druyan -
Honor Yourself is more than just food for the soul-it is true healing for the heart. Patricia Spadaro provides an honest approach to self-love that will help us overcome the mental and emotional roadblocks that have created imbalances in our lives today. Taking a cue from ancient scriptures and healing traditions, she helps us understand the daily dance of give and take that makes up life's experiences. She is a new voice to be reckoned with as a pioneer in healing.
-- Ann Louise Gittleman -
Pray unceasingly that all denial be stripped from your mind. Pray that something miraculous be born within us all. Give everything you have. Do not wait another day. Lay your hours and intellect, your heart and passion, upon the altar of self-transformation and collective awakening. Begin now: pray, believe, trust and act.
-- Ann Mortifee -
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Let the power come. Let ecstasy erupt. Allow your heart to expand and overflow with adoration for this magnificent creation and for the love, wisdom and power that birthed it all. Rapture is needed now - rapture, reverence and grace.
-- Ann Mortifee -
Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.
-- Ann Patchett -
Never will I give my hand where my heart does not accompany it.
-- Ann Radcliffe -
The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.
-- Ann Radcliffe -
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Do you believe your heart to be, indeed, so hardened, that you can look without emotion on the suffering, to which you would condemn me?
-- Ann Radcliffe -
Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.
-- Ann Richards -
Multiple Sclerosis is obviously close to my heart and I'm determined to make a difference in the lives of people who suffer from the disease by raising the profile of MS, as well as raising funds for advocacy and research.
-- Ann Romney -
Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.
-- Ann Voskamp -
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Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart.
-- Ann Voskamp -
Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock.
-- Ann Wilson -
Ingratitude is the frost that nips the flower even as it opens, that shrivels the generous apple on the branch, that freezes the fountain in mid-flow and numbs the hand, even in the very act of giving. It is a sin of silence, absence and omission, as winter's sin is a lack of light; a sin against charity, which otherwise warms the heart and, in the truest sense, makes the world turn.
-- Ann Wroe -
You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
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Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
Now no one will listen to songs. The prophesied days have begun. Latest poem of mine, the world has lost its wonder, Don't break my heart, don't ring out.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
A loss, but who still mourns the breath of one woman, or laments one wife? Though my heart never can forget, how, for one look, she gave up her life.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
This weather may be breaking our hearts but it will not be breaking our will,
-- Anna Bligh -
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Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the heart of the woman, and brings forth [gems] of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession.
-- Anna Cora Mowatt -
Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.
-- Anna Godbersen -
She was a vision in a white gown her dark hair forming a hazy halo around her rosy heart-shaped face. Her long lashes fluttered to touch her cheeks and then her eyes opened fully in his direction. Her small round mouth flexed in an immediate and knowing smile. That's the girl I'm going to marry Henry thought.
-- Anna Godbersen -
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After Henry's treatment of her she wasn't sure that men could honestly love women but she wanted to believe it. She wanted to be told pretty things and for the frightening clip of her heart to slow to something more reasonable.
-- Anna Godbersen -
Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn't visible beneath her fitted bodice.
-- Anna Godbersen -
He turned his dark eyes on the girl whom he had dreamed of so often over the previous months. Beside him, at that very moment of existence, at the heart of torrential downpour, she was exquisitely real, and she, too, seemed content to go on sitting there forever.
-- Anna Godbersen -
Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.
-- Anna Godbersen -
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Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.
-- Anna Julia Cooper -
The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.
-- Anna Julia Cooper -
Tell me what’s the difference between hope and waiting because my heart doesn’t know It constantly cuts itself on the glass of waiting It constantly gets lost in the fog of hope
-- Anna Kamienska -
Where your pain is, there your heart lies also.
-- Anna Kamienska -
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It's the beautiful minds of this world that win over beautiful faces. They win hearts by winning minds...
-- Anna Karina -
There are too many men and women; there is too little Humanity. ... There is a dearth of understanding, of nakedness of spirit. All of us are over-dressed; no man knows what heart beats in his neighbour's bosom.
-- Anna Kingsford -
A heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathise
-- Anna Laetitia Waring -
I ask Thee for a thankful love, Through constant watching wise, To meet the glad with joyful smiles, And to wipe the weeping eyes, And a heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathize.
-- Anna Laetitia Waring -
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The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.
-- Anna Letitia Barbauld -
You can hate a person with your whole body, but love is a stubborn thing, it clings on in your heart.
-- Anna Maxted -