Heart Quotes

I kissed him softly and left my lips pressed to his for a few beats of my heart.

~ N.r. Walker

When I opened the door, Andrew was standing there like a remedy for heart palpitations. Or maybe he made them worse. It was hard to tell.

~ N.r. Walker

There was little Hiroko Tanaka hadn’t learnt about the shameful resilience of the human heart.

~ Kamila Shamsie

You won't understand where home is until you realize it is the only place your mind takes you back to when every journey ends badly.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It began with your eyes cast down, and mine looking right at you,I watched you rule out hundreds of questions and accept only mine. I poured my stories into your eager heart, and you sparked faith inside the stubbornness of mine. Our beginning was written in the stars—how could it not be?

~ Emalynne Wilder

I cannot conceive that the man who dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a machine. He also had a heart, just like you. He also had his wife and children, his old mother and father. He was as much a human being as you are—with a difference. He was trained to follow orders without questioning, and when the order was given, he simply followed it.

~ Osho

But still, my heart beats. It dreams. It wonders. And most dangerous of all, it hopes, because despite its smallness, this hope is still a great something

~ Emalynne Wilder

You aren’t some dream I want to relive. You’re the part of my life that someone has decided to rip away and I’m trying to figure out how to tie us back together.

~ Emalynne Wilder

Your heart swallowed me like a well and I will never be able to climb out. I fell. I fell into your infinity. And my inability to free myself will doom your life.

~ Emalynne Wilder

where does it derive its strength? is it the blood soaked soil? or the fear stained heart?

~ A.p. Sweet

I have an arrow living inside my chest that shoots straight toward you—even though I know the sky is falling for us. Even though I know all we’re destined for is dust. I can’t make it change course. It leads me to you every time I’ve tried to turn away

~ Emalynne Wilder

The apostle Paul claimed the Law is written on the 'fleshy tables' of the human heart (2 Cor. 3:3 KJV). What he meant are these 'shoulds' and 'shouldn'ts' are both instinctual and inescapable, part of our DNA. They are a psychological reality. We may justify our actions away, but deep down, we know when we've done something wrong.

~ Tullian Tchividjian

She was benediction, a touch of faith, life itself coursing through my veins collapsed in age and turmoil, and to my fatigued and weary heart, a new and vibrant throb.

~ F. Sionil José

They are many wounded hearts here. Many! Some admit. Others - the stubborn ones, scribble poetry instead.

~ Saru Singhal

No, I don't have a heart of gold. It's normal - the one that gets hurt by rude words and broken promises.

~ Saru Singhal

I want you to send a hundred red balloons up into the sky every Fourth of July and make everyone who sees them wonder what the story behind them is all about. Let me live on inside of a made up story, Callum Andrew

~ Emalynne Wilder

I would give my heart to the religious so that they may realize that god hates us all.

~ A.p. Sweet

I had an abnormal heart, the kind that stretched like a rubber-band and weakened with every tug I allowed someone to have

~ Emalynne Wilder

When we practise self-compassion, we look after ourselves just as though we are nurturing a small child. In fact, a major part of grieving our original pain work (so that we can heal and be emotionally liberated) is to re-parent ourselves and reconnect with our inner child. This is what the author, John Bradshaw, meant by ‘reclaiming our inner child’. In recovery, we can begin to nurture our inner child and connect deeply with our heart and spirit.

~ Christopher Dines

A kind heart is like a slow poison for a warrior.

~ Sandeep Sharma

Usually if you pray from the heart, you get an answer—the phone rings or the mail comes, and light gets in through the cracks, so you can see the next right thing to do. That’s all you need.

~ Anne Lamott

At moments like this, he was lost to himself, lost in the shadows that hid beneath his heart. Rarely did he let himself go and when he did it was only with her.

~ Tiffany Reisz

She told no one of the otter. Garrett would want to trap it; Faina would ask her to draw it. She refused to confine it by any means because, in some strange way, she knew it was her heart. Living, twisting muscle beneath bristly damp fur. Breaking through thin ice, splashing in cold creek water, sliding belly-down across snow. Joyful, though it should have known better.

~ Eowyn Ivey

Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your hearts, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.

~ Anne Lamott

Truth is felt in the heart. This is why your heart should always be your ultimate temple. Sitting inside on a blue towering altar, is you’re where you find your conscience. This is where all conversations with God stream.

~ Suzy Kassem

Would you like to take away the person? Or would you like to take away the heart?

~ Feng Nong

I Am Not Sherlock, But I Will Share Happiness With You And Lock you In My Heart For The Rest Of My Life.

~ Yaganesh Derasari

As we open our hearts, what we notice is that information starts opening up for us in an unfolding process, as if life were being revealed layer by layer.

~ Catherine Carrigan

If you wish to be happy, listen to your heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Does your heart walk forward in the light?

~ Anasazi Foundation

How quickly bodies came to love each other, promise themselves to each other always, without asking permission. From the mind! If only she could give up her mind, let her heart swell, inflamed, her brain stepping out for whole days, whole seasons, her work shrinking to limericks.

~ Lorrie Moore

A simple way to access compassion is to see with the eye of your heart.

~ Catherine Carrigan

[His] leaving had stabbed her heart. This organ was not inclined to forgive her for vulnerability.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Your Heart Can't Be Depends On Some one else's heartbeat .

~ Yaganesh Derasari

Here is my secret. It’s quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.

~ —Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

It took courage to live an immortal life and not close off your heart and mind to any new experiences or new people. Because that which was new was almost always temporary. And that which was temporary broke your heart.

~ Cassandra Clare

Today one may pluck out one's very heart and not find it.

~ Franz Kafka

We often use the Bible as a source for personal validation and defense, a sidekick and a shield, but these will prove ineffective without first the other part. We must also allow ourselves to be wounded by it. We tend to forget its authority - that it is a double-edged sword. Our decrepit, depraved hearts must be completely ripped out in order to welcome that of God.

~ Criss Jami

He sees those tears in your eyes. He knows the desire of your heart. And you will hear from Him-just in time to take the next step.

~ James C. Dobson

In the dull, persistent beat of her heart, she hears the rhythm of hope. It is faint and thin as a thread, but it is there.

~ Libbie Hawker