Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lawrence Durrell

Somewhere in the heart of experience there is an order and a coherence which we might purprise if we were attentive enough, loving enough, or patient enough.

Lawrence Durrell

Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.

Lawrence Durrell

Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.

Laura Schlessinger

When you change yourself to win someone's heart, you better be prepared to accept that this will now be your way of life forever.

Larry David

I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.

Lady Gregory

The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.

Lady Bird Johnson

Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!

Lady Bird Johnson

My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.

Neil Peart

Different hearts beat on different strings

Marcus Aurelius

Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it. Let the rest of your days be spent as one who has whole-heartedly committed his all to the gods and is thenceforth no man's master or slave.

Marcus Aurelius

The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness.

Marcus Aurelius

No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether world," as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart.

Marcus Aurelius

Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? Can any vital process take place without something being changed? Can't you see? It's just the same with you - and just as vital to nature.

Marc Jacobs

I think there is something about luxury - it's not something people need, but it's what they want. It really pulls at their heart.

Marc Maron

For 15 years of my life I smoked, I drank, I used to do drugs... but during that time, I never once thought I was going to die. But the second I set foot on a stairmaster -the second- I am sure my heart is gonna explode and blood is gonna spray out of my nose.

Marc Chagall

For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world.

Marc Chagall

If I create with my heart almost all my intentions remain. If it is with the head - almost nothing. An artist must not fear to be himself, to express only himself. If he is absolutely and entirely sincere, what he says and does will be acceptable to others.

Thomas a Kempis

The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.

Thomas a Kempis

Thou shalt rest sweetly if thy heart condemn thee not.

Thomas a Kempis

He who loveth God with all his heart feareth not death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell, because perfect love giveth sure access to God. But he who still delighteth in sin, no marvel if he is afraid of death and judgment.

Thomas a Kempis

Ah, Lord God, thou holy lover of my soul, when thou comest into my heart, all that is within me shall rejoice.

Thomas a Kempis

If thou hadst simplicity and purity, thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger. The pure heart safely pervades not only heaven, but hell.

Thomas a Kempis

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

Sandra Cisneros

I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.

Sandra Cisneros

We can have our hearts broken over so much more. It is important to recognize the full spectrum of heartbreak. We can be heartbroken by lost and by disappointment. But heartbreak is not just this negative image we see, it's not this terrible experience that brings no benefits.

Samuel Johnson

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, of sickness, or captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable; nor does it appear that the happiest lot of terrestrial existence can set us above the want of this general blessing; or that life, when the gifts of nature and of fortune are accumulated upon it, would not still be wretched, were it not elevated and delighted by the expectation of some new possession, of some enjoyment yet behind, by which the wish shall at last be satisfied, and the heart filled up to its utmost extent.

Sam Waterston

Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.

Sadaharu Oh

At the heart of all things is love.

Ryan Hall

I have my own unique road that has had many exciting ups and heart-breaking downs, but one thing I know is that my journey is not over and the best is yet to come.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

Every day I work my guts out in training, every match I play my heart out.

Ryan Adams

Writing and creating, those things come to me on their own. I feel like... you sort of summon them and it's like allowing the universe to enter your heart in an entirely different way to what it normally does. It's like inviting that energy of the universe to enter into your craft in a way where it has a meaning.

Ruth Graham

Love without clinging, cry if you must, but privately cry, the heart will adjust.

Ruth Graham

Worship and worry cannot live in the same heart: they are mutually exclusive.