From The Heart Quotes

If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.

The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.

"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.

Be aware of anxiety. Next to sin, thee is nothing that so troubles the mind, stains the heart, distresses the soul, and confuses the judgment.

Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.

Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.

O heart, we are old; The living beauty is for younger men: We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears.

We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love

Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

Shakespeare cared little for the State, the source of all our judgments, apart from its shows and splendours, its turmoils and battles, its flamings out of the uncivilized heart.

Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed.

How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?

O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake.

I--though heart might find relief Did I become a Christian man and choose for my belief What seems most welcome in the tomb--play a predestined part. Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

Though I have many words, What woman's satisfied, I am no longer faint Because at her side? O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?

Nor seek, for this is also sooth, To hunger fiercely after truth, Lest all thy toiling only breeds New dreams, new dreams; there is no truth Saving in thine own heart.

THESE are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man. The year plunges into night and the heart plunges lower than night.

Please your eye and plague your heart.

There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man.

He that attends to his interior self, That has a heart, and keeps it; has a mind That hungers, and supplies it; and who seeks A social, not a dissipated life, Has business.

The fool has set in his heart that he can get more money through the tiring of his muscle and the starvation of his brain-but he can't.

Life - life - life! 'Tis the sole great thing This side of death, Heart on heart in the wonder of Spring!

He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart and thinks he sees the world.

The Christian is to proclaim and prosecute an irreconcilable war against his bosom sins; those sins which have lain nearest his heart, must now be trampled under his feet.

Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.

Books wind into the heart.

He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.

Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.

In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.

Science herself consults her heart when she lays it down that the infinite ascertainment of fact and correction of false belief are the supreme goods for man.

Kindness is goodness hidden in the heart More often than declared in speech.

I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.

We may justly condemn ourselves as the greatest sinners we know because we know more of the folly of our own heart than we do of other people's.

If dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am I lost and hopeless living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.

What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he not make others suffer, so that he may ease his selfish heart?

Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.

Either we change our ways, especially the United States, or we will continue to lead the world in heart disease and cancer.

We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.

I often find that getting head issues out of the way first makes the heart stuff easier to work on later.

Grissom is pretty asexual. He's not that interested in anything other than work - except for Lady Heather. She's the closest to getting his heart of anyone.

Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.

Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.

The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.

Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.

San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure.

All offences come from the heart.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

Love sees with the heart and not with mind.

Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?

I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love.