Heart Quotes

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.

~ Shinichi Suzuki

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

~ Amos Bronson Alcott

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

~ Alan Bleasdale

The goal of my diet-style is eating for optimal health and longevity. What greater benefit could there be than living healthfully and actively into old age with no dependence on medications and almost no risk of heart disease, diabetes or dementia?

~ Joel Fuhrman

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Too many U.S. adults have a heart age years older than their real age, increasing their risk of heart disease and stroke. Everybody deserves to be young - or at least not old - at heart.

~ Tom Frieden

Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, consumption, labor pains, insanity, old age, and blindness. Hence, the French expression 'like an apothecary without sugar' meant someone in an utterly hopeless situation.

~ Tom Reiss

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

~ Maria Edgeworth

I think no matter what age you are, you know when you love something in your heart.

~ Cindy Busby

I was given a stethoscope in a child's 'doctor's bag' at about age six and I loved it! One could hear the heart beating through that plastic toy.

~ Jessye Norman

Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart. Right from the start. go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I've learned, that's the path to happiness.

~ Lesley Ann Warren

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

~ George Bernard Shaw

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

~ Paramahansa Yogananda

If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

~ Jane Porter

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

~ Aeschylus

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy.

~ Mary Oliver

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

May the States be so bound to each other as forever to defy European politics. Upon that union, their consequence, their happiness, will depend. This is the first wish of a heart more truly American than words can express.

~ Marquis De Lafayette

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.

~ Euripides

Greet every morning with open arms and say thanks every night with a full heart. Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.

~ Regina Brett

I've had my heart broken, and it's the hardest thing. Everyone says, 'Give it time, you'll feel better in the morning.' But you don't. You feel like it's never, ever going to heal - especially during the first few weeks.

~ Mollie King

I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It's not heavy. I don't have skeletons in the closet on their way out.

~ Drake

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

~ Bram Stoker

I must warn you right here and now that I am a 'wet leftie,' a 'leftist' and also a member of the 'bleeding heart liberal left.' I had no say in it whatsoever. I woke up one morning, and these things were tattooed across my forehead.

~ Michael Leunig

There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.

~ Aaron Neville

A locked-room problem lies at the heart of my new novel, 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone,' in which an RUC detective has to find out whether a publican's daughter who fell off a table in a bar that was locked from the inside was in fact murdered.

~ Adrian Mckinty

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

~ Tim Robbins

You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.

~ Gijs De Vries

Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I think we all understand that basic, wrenching emotion that comes from saying goodbye, not knowing if we'll see that person again - or perhaps knowing that we won't.

~ Luanne Rice

Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most.

~ Joshua Foer

When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway me. That resilience came from my family. It flowed through our bloodline.

~ Coretta Scott King

The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.

~ Anita Diament

Over the years I've learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his friends and family; the other is the football player Pele. I didn't want the name. 'Pele' sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese.

~ Pelé

That's always at the heart and soul of Disney's features, the feeling of a family values.

~ Tia Carrere

I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously.

~ Catherine O'hara

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

~ Kenzo Tange

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

~ Arthur Erickson

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

~ Goldwin Smith

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

~ Dan Rather