The mind is often at the heart that what the library of a castle is to the master's person.
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.
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples my philosophy is kindness.
A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind endeavours to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards another.
I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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.
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
