Heart Quotes - Page 37

• Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Wise, Nature, Plot

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Letters, Conversations and Recollections”, p.35

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• Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Optimism, Enthusiasm

  Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”

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• Can love and peace live in the same heart? Youth is unhappy because it is faced with this terrible choice; love without peace, or peace without love.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Peace, Choices, Unhappy

  Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Eugène Labiche, Georges Courteline (pseud.) (1975). “Three popular French comedies”, Frederick Ungar

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• When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and thy neighbor as thyself' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Patriotic, Law

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.

  Thomas Browne

  Keys, Locks

  Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.259

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• As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Long, Mind, Quality

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• The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Revenge, Men, Heaven

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• Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.

  Tennessee Williams

  Love, Compassion, Hands

  Tennessee Williams (1971). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. Kingdom of Earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. The two-character play”, p.85, New Directions Publishing

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• The heart of a statesman should be in his head.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Should, Wit

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

  Jane Austen

  Women, Mind, Arguing

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• To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.

  Moliere

  Women, Believe, Ambition

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• Dear to the heart of a girl is her own beauty and charm.

  Ovid

  Girl, Women, Charm

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.100, Indiana University Press

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• Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Wisdom, Intelligence, Library

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (2003). “Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues”

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• Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of the spiritless condition. It is the opium of the people.

  Karl Marx

  Religious, Real, Expression

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Collected works”

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• A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the lord in vain- then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Religious, Names, Long

  Robert A. Heinlein (1985). “Job, a Comedy of Justice”, Del Rey

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• Even success softens not the heart of the envious.

  Pindar

  Success, Achievement, Envious

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

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• He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Success, Achievement, Bears

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• It's better to cry than be angry, because anger hurts others while tears flow silently through the soul and cleans the heart.

  Pope John Paul II

  Religious, Hurt, Soul

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• Angels light the way. Angels do not begrudge anyone anything, angels do not tear down, angels do not compete, angels do not constrict their hearts, angels do not fear. That's why they sing and that's how they fly. We, of course, are only angels in disguise.

  Marianne Williamson

  Angel, Light, Tears

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• God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that, realizes that he is in the midst, that takes heed to the assurance of his loving presence, will be quiet in the midst of alarm.

  F.B. Meyer

  Angel, Alarms, Quiet

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• And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what is your friend that your should seek with him hours to kill? Seek with him always hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. And in the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter, and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

  Khalil Gibran

  Morning, Laughter, Fun

  Khalil Gibran, “Friendship IXX”

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• In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time's continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly in the absolute present, watching the world's ordinary miracles. No mind or heart hobbles. No analyzing or explaining. No questing for logic. No promises. No goals. No relationships. No worry. One is completely open to whatever drama may unfold.

  Diane Ackerman

  Fun, Pain, Drama

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.23, Vintage

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• (Talking about his first computer) Like all kids we not only fooled around with our toys, we changed them. If you've ever watched a child with a cardboard carton and a box of crayons create a spaceship with cool control panels, or listened to their improvised rules, such as "Red cars can jump all others," then you know that this impulse to make a toy do more is at the heart of innovative childhood play. It is also the essence of creativity.

  Bill Gates

  Children, Fun, Creativity

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• Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce. In summer, we work hard to make a tidy garden, bordered by pansies with rows or clumps of columbine, petunias, bleeding hearts. Then we find ourselves longing for the forest, where everything has the appearance of disorder; yet we feel peaceful there.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Summer, Falling In Love, Fun

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Loyalty, Mean, Sacrifice

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.142, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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