Quotes about Heart

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success.

To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense.

Know that the only remedy for love is to love more.

I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment. Now I knew how I would feel if I ever lost him. That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do was imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.

Love more, her aunt had said. Not less.

In the human world you had to choose your loyalties carefully. You had to see through to someone's heart.

There are secrets that must be held close, and most of these have to do with the wounding of the human heart, for sorrow spoken aloud is sorrow lived through twice.

What belonged to you once, will always belong to you.

What belonged to you once, will always belong to you. Be grateful if you have walked through the world with another's heart in your hand.

I do not grieve in the abstract, but in the heart.

No one escapes a time in life when the arrow of sorrow, of anger, of despair pierces the heart. For many of us, there is the inevitable need to circle the wound. It is often such a surprise to find it there, in us, when we had assumed arrows so painful only landed in the hearts of other people. Some of us spend decades screaming at the archer. Or at least for longer periods than are good for us. How to take the arrow out of the heart? How to learn to relieve our own pain? That is the question.