Heart Quotes and Proverbs

Doc Childre
True creativity quite simply starts with balancing your emotions and activating the power of the heart. Through practicing emotional management from the heart, you tap into the highest form of creativity possible--recreating your perceptions of reality.

Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
Creating a joint venture between head and heart puts a power pack behind your goals. Getting your head in sync with your heart and harnessing the power of coherence gives you the energy efficiency you need to achieve changes that haven't been possible before. The head can notice what things need to change, but the heart provides the power and direction to actually bring about the changes....

Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart
You may not always be able to feel a deeper heart feeling right away, but stay focused in the heart. The sincerity of your effort can reconnect you to your heart current and start the juices flowing. To plug in, think of someone you love or remember what feels good, maybe a fulfilling experience. Feelings help you remember.

Daphine Rose Kingma
Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much.

Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to Coherence
Presence is a rare quality in a world of 20-second sound bites, nonstop stimulation, and gnawing anxiety. What underlies presence? Clearly, it is not intellectual prowess or Mensa would rule the world. More than once we all have been bored to tears by the intellectual aloofness of someone disconnected from everyday reality, adrift in a conceptual universe of his or her own creation...Could presence be heart-generated coherence in the world of personal magnetics? People with presence have an ineffable quality about them; they are "present," surprisingly attentive, and undistracted. A fullness, a centeredness, a wholeness radiates from them. We enjoy being "in their presence." You can build presence. It is the natural radiance of heart security.

Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
By using your heart as your compass, you can see more clearly which direction to go to stop self-defeating behavior. If you take just one mental or emotional habit that really bothers or drains you and apply heart intelligence to it, you'll see a noticeable difference in your life.

David McArthur, The Intelligent Heart
Love does not only transform our mental/emotional nature, it also involves the physical system of our body which goes through profound changes as well.

Chinese proverb
If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come.

Dr. Charles H. Mayo
Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects heart action.

Lao Tzu, 6th century B.C.
When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts.

Kahlil Gibran
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Confucius
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

Carl Jung
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

François de La Rochefoucauld
The heart is forever making the head its fool.

Henry Clay (1777-1852)
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart.

James Earl Jones
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

Charles W. Chestnut (1858-1899)
The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
The day isn't far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the heart and head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.

Frank Lloyd Wright
The heart is the first feature of working minds.

Frederika Bremer
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.

Chandogya Upanishad
There is a light that shines beyond all things on earth, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens. This is the light that shines in your heart

Tanya A. Moore
A person's world is only as big as their heart

Nietzche
The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.

Goethe
All the knowledge I possess everyone can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

Johann Von Schiller
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

Charles H. Perkhurst
The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.

Helen Keller
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Jacques Bénigne Bossuel
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.

H. L. Mencken
As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Benjamin Franklin
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart.

Jean Galoert de Campistron
The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses.

Roberta Sage Hamilton
In our deepest moments of struggle, frustration, fear, and confusion, we are being called upon to reach in and touch our hearts. Then, we will know what to do, what to say, how to be. What is right is always in our deepest heart of hearts. It is from the deepest part of our hearts that we are capable of reaching out and touching another human being. It is, after all, one heart touching another heart.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

Chandogya Upanishad 3.13.7
There is a light that shines beyond all things on Earth, beyond us all, beyond the heavens, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens.
This is the light that shines in our heart.

Lord Byron
There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Vernon Baker
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.

Evander Holyfield
It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Philip Robison
When the future hinges on the next words that are said, don't let logic interfere, believe your heart instead. .

Bob Hope
If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

Justice Learned Hand
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.

Jalal-Uddin Rumi
Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he/she has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to her.
Thanks to Hetty Watters

H. L. Mencken
As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
thanks to Alan Bennett

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart, The secret anniversaries of the heart...

Thomas Fuller, MD
Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.

Sue Bender
Listening to your heart is not simple. Finding out who you are is not simple. It takes a lot of hard work and courage to get to know who you are and what you want.

Henri Frederic Amiel
Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart.

Pope John Paul II
The worst prison would be a closed heart.

Deepak Chopra
The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Louis Nizer
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.

Antonio Porchia
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

George Steiner
The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or piece of prose he or she really loves...is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.

Edgar Cayce
The purpose of the heart is to know yourself to be yourself and yet one with God.

French Proverb
Gratitude is the heart's memory.

Jean Jacques Rousseau
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Theodore Parker
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Henry Fielding
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Sir Winston Churchill
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.

Lord Byron
There is no instinct like that of the heart.

J.G. Holland
The heart is wiser than the intellect.

Katie Hurley
The way to the heart is through the ears

Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Have a strong mind and a soft heart.

Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.

The Land Before Time
Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.

Unknown
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and
truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring
them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny
draws across your path that day.

Thanks to Ken Lam
The mind doubts, but the heart never does.

Galatians, 6:9
Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.

Pascal
The heart has its reasons that reason does not know.

Woodrow Wilson
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday.

Unknown
The heart has reasons which reason does not know.

Golda Meir
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

Menicus
The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart.

Mother Teresa
A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.

Greek Proverb
The heart that loves is always young.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All the knowledge I possess everyone can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Psalms 90:10
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Dicky Fox (Jerry Maguire's Mentor)
If you don't have it here (pointing to the heart), it doesn't matter what you've got here (pointing at the head).

Michael Bridge
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Baha'U'Uah
In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love.
- thanks to Jerry Pegden!

Vauvenargues
All grand thoughts come from the heart.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

James A. Garfield
If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart; the spirit should not grow old.

RAINER MARIA RILKE
Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart And try to love the questions themselves.

Emerson
What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

TOM C. CLARK
I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.

Vince Lombardi
Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.

Michael Bridge
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Emerson
To believe your own thought, to believe that that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,-that is genius.

The Land Before Time
Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely. .

Black Elk
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

John Bunyan
It is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart!

J. Krishnamutri
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely-- the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

H. L. Wayland
To value riches is not to be covetous. They are the gift of God, and, like every gift of his, good in themselves, and capable of a good use. But to overvalue riches, to give them a place in the heart which God did not design them to fill, this is covetousness.

Menius
The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart.

Unknown
The worst prison would be a closed heart.

Prince and the NPG
Live 4 Love, Without Love You Don't Live.

Lincoln
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.

Johann Georg Zimmermann
Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.

Sir Philip Sidney
In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

Robert M. Persig
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Francois, Duc De La Rochefoucauld
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart. What jailer so inexorable as one's self?

Bernard M. Baruch
Whatever task that you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged. Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except in the consciousness of doing your best.

Katie Hurley
The way to the heart is through the ears.
Thanks to John Travis

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

Thomas Carlyle
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Unknown
Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - not their minds.

Seneca
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Bernard M. Baruch
Two things are bad for the heart--running up stairs and running down people.

John Adams
Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens understanding and softens the heart.

George Bernard Shaw
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Rumi
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.

Mother Teresa
A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.

Greek Proverb
The heart that loves is always young.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
To believe your own thought, to believe that that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,-that is genius.

Carol Horos
Seeds, like hearts must open to grow.

Braveheart
Your heart is free, have the courage to follow it.

Unknown
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.

Fred Allen
If you took all the sincerity in Hollywood and put it in the navel of a fruit fly, you'd still have room for three carraway seeds and a producer's heart.

Zelda Fitzgerald
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

Washington Irving
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Mecius
The great man is he who has not lost his child's heart.

Dylan Thomas
Light breaks where no sun shines; / Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart / Push in their tides.

Helena Petrova Blavatsky
The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain.

Junius
The heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute.

Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.

Mary Baker Eddy
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.

Walter Savage Landor
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

You can't make a heart love somebody,
You can lead a heart to love,
But you can't make it fall.

Anne Sullivan
My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

Henri-Frederic Amiel
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Anon
The mind forgets but the heart always remembers.

Washington Irving
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

Raoul Dufy
What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power . . . a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Nicholas Chamford (1741-1794)
People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.

John Bunyan (1628-1688)
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart.

Sara Teasdale
It is my heart That makes my songs, not I.

Marc Chagall
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Mark Twain, Eve's Diary
It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

Katharine Whitehorn
I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.

Henry Ward Beecher
The head learns new things, but the heart forever more practices old experiences.

Golda Meir
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

William Butler Yeats
Too long a sacrifice/ Can make a stone of the heart.

Thomas Paine
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Maria Mitchell
People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.

Martin Luther
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them -- the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

Thomas à Kempis. 1380-1471.
... A man's heart deviseth his way; but the Lord directeth his steps.--Proverbs xvi. 9.

Marc Chagall
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Henry Ward Beecher
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Jean Giraudoux
There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.