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Quotations
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 12 likes | |
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. — Steve Jobs, 1955-2011, American businessman 9 likes | |
Sometimes following your heart means losing your mind. — Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961, American writer, Nobel 1954 8 likes | |
The heart of man is very much like the sea: it has its storms, its tides, and its depths; it has its pearls too. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 8 likes | |
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. — Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, British writer 8 likes | |
We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough. — Joseph Roux, 1834-1905, French clergyman & poet 8 likes | |
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 8 likes | |
Sometimes the heart sees what's invisible to the eye. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 6 likes | |
Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 6 likes | |
Great thoughts come from the heart. — Vauvenargues, 1715-1747, French author of maxims 6 likes | |
In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 6 likes | |
Everybody has a heart. Except some people. — Bette Davis, 1908-1989, American actress 5 likes | |
Love is space and time measured by the heart. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 5 likes | |
Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt. — Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French writer 5 likes | |
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. — Théophile Gautier, 1811-1872, French poet & writer 5 likes | |
What comes from the heart goes to the heart. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, English poet & philosopher 5 likes | |
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. — Jules Renard, 1864-1910, French writer 4 likes | |
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 4 likes | |
Everyone speaks well of his heart; no one dares speak well of his mind. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 4 likes | |
A large heart can be filled with very little. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 3 likes | |
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 3 likes | |
The message behind the words is the voice of the heart. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 3 likes | |
There is a wisdom of the Head, and … there is a wisdom of the Heart. — Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, British writer 2 likes | |
Could it think, the heart would stop beating. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 2 likes | |
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 2 likes | |
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 2 likes | |
Youth is the time when hearts are large. | |
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see. | |
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. | |
Tears come from the heart and not from the brain. | |
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet. | |
He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart. | |
The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right. | |
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. | |
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be. | |
I speak to the heart more than to the ear. This is what explains my success. Because everyone has a heart, and not everyone has an ear. | |
For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack. | |
He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart. | |
God sees hearts as we see faces. | |
The heart must either break or turn to stone. | |
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. | |
I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside. | |
The only way of touching a heart is to wound it. |
Personal Stories
My mind may be American but my heart is British. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 2 likes |
Latin Quotes
Heart talks to heart. Cor ad cor loquitur. — Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher 57 likes |
Quotes in Verse
I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. — Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963, American poet & writer 3 likes | |
That's why I'm not to be trusted. Because a wound to the heart is also a wound to the mind. | |
The Heart wants what it wants or else it does not care. | |
But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse. |
Proverbs
The heart is something of a prophet. 3 likes |
Movie Quotes
A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others. — from the film The Wizard of Oz (1939) 5 likes |