The heart is the best logician.
—Wendell Phillips (1811–84) American Abolitionist, Lawyer, Orator
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
—Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American Clergyman, Self-Help Author
God gives to us according to the measure of our hearts.
—Persian Proverb
If there is room in your heart there is room in your house.
—Danish Proverb
I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. It is the principal source of success in life. Since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone. The key is to develop inner peace.
—The 14th Dalai Lama (b.1935) Tibetan Buddhist Religious Leader, Civil Rights Leader, Philosopher, Author
The heart is the best reflective thinker.
—Wendell Phillips (1811–84) American Abolitionist, Lawyer, Orator
Something the heart must have to cherish; must love, and joy, and sorrow learn: something with passion clasp, or perish, and in itself to ashes burn.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) American Poet, Educator, Academic
Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.
—German Proverb
I learned that as long as I had anything in my heart or head I still felt necessary to hide, it would not work. I had to come to peace with everything.
—Marlo Morgan (1937–98) American Novelist, Author
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
—Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) South African Political leader
There are good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.
—Robert Owen (1771–1858) British Social Reformer, Philosopher
Of all the female qualities a warm heart is the most valuable.
—Chinese Proverb
Rather a piece of bread with a happy heart than wealth with grief.
—Egyptian Proverb
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
—Emily Dickinson (1830–86) American Poet
A man’s worth depends on his two smallest organs: his heart and his tongue.
—Arabic Proverb
You may as soon fill a bag with wisdom, a chest with virtue, or a circle with a triangle, as the heart of man with anything here below.—A man may have enough of the world to sink him, but he can never have enough to satisfy him.
—Thomas Brooks (1608–80) English Puritan Preacher, Author
The heart always sees before than the head can see.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist
Keep your tents apart and your hearts together.
—African Proverb
If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master’s presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord’s presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.
—Francis de Sales (1567–1622) French Catholic Saint
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.
—Arabic Proverb
Men, as well as women, are oftener led by their hearts than their undertandings.—The way to the heart is through the senses; please the eyes and ears, and the work is half done.
—Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) English Statesman, Man of Letters
Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I’m in the wrong building.
—Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) American Cartoonist, Writer, Artist
What I am concerned about in this fast-moving world in a time of crises, both in foreign and domestic affairs, is not so much a program as a spirit of approach, not so much a mind as a heart. A program lives today and dies tomorrow. A mind, if it be open, may change with each new day, but the spirit and the heart are as unchanging as the tides.
—Owen D. Young (1874–1962) American Businessperson, Lawyer, Diplomat
Suppose that a man would advertise to take photographs of the heart; would he get many customers?
—Dwight L. Moody (1837–99) Christian Religious Leader, Publisher
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning “heart”. Thus just as one’s heart, by pumping blood to one’s arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
—Rollo May (1909–94) American Philosopher
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
—Meister Eckhart (c.1260–1327) German Christian Mystic
The field of intent grows my fingernails, it beats my heart, it digest my food, it writes my books, and it does this for everyone and everything in the universe.
—Wayne Dyer (b.1940) American Motivational Writer, Author, Motivational Speaker
The greatest love is a mother’s, then a dog’s, then a sweetheart’s.
—Polish Proverb
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78) Swiss-born French Philosopher
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
—Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.
—Helen Keller (1880–1968) American Author
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
—Chinese Proverb
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
The pain that’s created by avoiding hard work is actually much worse than any pain created from the actual work itself. Because if you don’t begin to work on those ideas that God has blessed you with, they will become stagnant inside of you and eventually begin to eat away at you. You might seem OK on the outside, but inside you will be ill from not getting those ideas out of your heart and into the world. Stalling leads to sickness. But taking steps, even baby steps, always leads to success.
—Russell Simmons (b.1957) American Music Promoter
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
—Unknown
He who knows his heart mistrusts his eyes.
—Chinese Proverb
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
—C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) Irish-born British Academic, Author, Literary Scholar
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American Head of State, Political leader, Historian, Explorer
A good heart is worth gold.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
The heart has always the pardoning power.
—Sophie Swetchine (1782–1857) Russian Mystic, Writer
But as it is written, eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
—Unknown
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
—Zelda Fitzgerald (1899–1948) American Writer, Artist
Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people’s hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human “brain” with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human “heart” with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.
—The 14th Dalai Lama (b.1935) Tibetan Buddhist Religious Leader, Civil Rights Leader, Philosopher, Author
I took his suggestion to heart and went from a “know-it-all” to a “learn-it-all”.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
The Divine Spirit does not reside in any except the joyful heart
—The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith
The heart of a man may be compared to a sausage; no one can tell exactly what’s inside.
—Yiddish Proverb
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
The Work is the end of the world as we understand it to be, sweetheart. And it’s the opening to reality, as it really is, in all its beauty.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
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