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Monday, 13 October 2008
Daily Quote:
"The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever." (Carlyle, Thomas - Age and Aging)

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Browse Quotations about Heart

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.
A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.
Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.
Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.
Faint hearts never win fair ladies.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.
For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.
I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.
I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?
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.
I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
I wear my heart on my sleeve.
I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.
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.
If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.
-- Jami | Heart
In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.
It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.
It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.
Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.
Love can heal a broken heart.
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.
Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.
The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
The heart always sees before than the head can see.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?
The heart is the best reflective thinker.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.
The heart that truly loves never forgets.
The heart will break, but broken live on.
The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.
There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.
There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.
Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.
What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.
What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.
What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]
Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.
Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.