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HEART QUOTES - Of the heart, for the romantic heart and straight from the heart ...
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Heart Quotes
(Irresistable love quotes can be used with irresistable carved stone hearts)
Beauty
"Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart."
~ Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)
"Beauty is not in the face; Beauty is a light in the heart."
~ Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
~ Helen Keller (1880-1968)
Philosophy
"The heart has reasons which the reason cannot understand."
~ Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
"Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart."
~ Zig Ziglar (1926-)
"The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart."
~ Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility."
~ Mevlana Rumi (1207-1273)
"Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely."
~ unknown
"It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be."
~ Anatole France (1844-1924)
"A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace."
~ Levi ben Gershon (1288-1344)
"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
~ H. Jackson Brown
"All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart."
~ Carlos Castaneda (1931-)
Success
"Know in your heart that all things are possible. We couldn't conceive of a miracle if none had ever happened."
~ Libbie Fudim
"Put you heart, mind, intellect and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."
~ Swami Sivananda
"If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it."
~ unknown
"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it."
~ Buddha (563-483 BC)
"He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it."
~ James Allen (1864-1912)
"Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower."
~ Shigenori Kameoka
"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands."
~ Robert M. Pirsig (1928-)
"True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing."
~ Leanna L. Bartram
"Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"He whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."
~ Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
"The heart is the first feature of working minds."
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
"Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart."
~ Mevlana Rumi (1207-1273)
Wisdom
"Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know . . ."
~ William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
"One day with life and heart Is more than time enough to find a world."
~ James Lowell (1819-1891)
"The heart must have its time of snow . . . to rest in silence, and then to grow."
~ unknown
"He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help."
~ Lincoln
Writing
"Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.""
~ Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
"In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"To live and let live, without clamour for distinction or recognition; . . . to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart -- this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal."
~ Mary Baker Eddy
Hope
"Hope it strange invention — A Patent of the Heart — In unremitting action Yet never wearing out."
~ Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Home
"Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace."
~ Vernon Baker
Friendship
"There is no distance too far between friends, for friendship gives wings to the heart."
~ Kathy Kay Benudiz
"Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world."
~ John Evelyn (1620-1706)
"True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes."
~ unknown
"Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home, sweet home For there the heart can rest."
~ Henry van Dyke (1852-1933)
Good Hearts
"A good heart is better than all the heads in the world."
~ Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."
~ Washington Irving (1783-1859)
"In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing."
~ Antonio Porchia
"Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either."
~ Golda Meir (1898-1978)
"A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love."
~ Mother Teresa (1910-1998)
"When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart—not his head."
~ unknown
"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up."
~ John Andrew Holmes
"Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart."
~ Henry Clay (1777-1852)
"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
"The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of a man."
~ Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
"The diurnal sun sets at night, but the sun of the heart never disappears."
~ 'Abd al-Kader (1807-1883)
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing."
~ Antonio Porchia
Music
"Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy."
~ Euripides (c. 485-406 BC)
Love 
"Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it."
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
"When the future hinges
on the next words that are said,
don't let logic interfere,
believe your heart instead."
~ Philip Robison
"You can lead a heart to love, but you can't make it fall."
~ George Strait
(Song lyrics)
Miscellaneous
"There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it."
~ George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart."
~ William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
"A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry."
~ Octavio Paz
"If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old."
~ James Garfield (1831-1881)
"Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh give me back my heart!"
~ Lord Byron (1788-1824)
"The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime."
~ Mignon McLaughlin (1915-)
"To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind."
~ Theophile Gautier
"I do believe there is many a tear in the heart that never reaches the eyes."
~ Norman MacEwan
"Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?"
~ William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
"You don't die of a broken heart, you only wish you did."
~ Marilyn Peterson
"Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart."
~ Anthony D'Angelo
"Wind to thy wings. Light to thy path. Dreams to thy heart."
~ unknown
"My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure."
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
"It is hard for the face to conceal the thoughts of the heart."
~ unknown
"Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart."
~ Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
"All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light."
~ Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
"And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns."
~ Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best."
~ Margaret Thatcher (1925-)
"Only time can heal your broken heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs."
~ Miss Piggy
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