Quotes about heart
heart democracy essentials
Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy - essential to keeping it alive. Madeleine M. Kunin
heart men forever
Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time. Madeleine L'Engle
heart hair feelings
Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this — and out of nothing — can still count the hairs of my head. Madeleine L'Engle
heart sea tree
I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell, holding my ear against the rough bark of the trunk, hearing the inner singing of the sap. It's a lovely sound, the beating of the heart of the tree. Madeleine L'Engle
heart heart-strings strings
There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings. Lucy Larcom
heart littles looks
Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while. Lucy Maud Montgomery
heart thinking treasure
I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over. Lucy Maud Montgomery
heart forever youth
Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart. Lucy Maud Montgomery
heart beats ifs
Rilla's heart skipped a beat - or, if that be a pysiological impossibility, she thought it did. Lucy Maud Montgomery
heart home night
How sadly things had changed since she had sat there the night after coming home! Then she had been full of hope and joy and the future had looked rosy with promise. Anne felt as if she had lived years since then, but before she went to bed there was a smile on her lips and peace in her heart. She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend--as duty ever is when we meet it frankly. Lucy Maud Montgomery
heart healing love-is
I am sure we should not shut our hearts against the healing influences that nature offers us. But I understand your feeling. I think we all experience the same thing. We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us. Lucy Maud Montgomery
heart fighting giving
God, though this life is but a wraith, Although we know not what we use, Although we grope with little faith, Give me the heart to fight and lose. Louis Untermeyer
heart cells bread
Women have no wilderness in them They are provident instead Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts To eat dusty bread. Louise Bogan
heart giving despair
...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart. Louise Bogan
heart wish ache
I wish I had no heart, it aches so… Louisa May Alcott
heart hands giving
I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands." "They're not empty now. Louisa May Alcott
heart broken world
Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness. Louisa May Alcott
heart games people
The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps. Louisa May Alcott
heart thinking hands
Head, you may think; heart, you may feel; But hand, you shall work alway! Louisa May Alcott
heart mind
Where the heart is the mind works best. Louisa May Alcott
heartbreaking failing
I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me. Louisa May Alcott
heart giving heaven
They were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven. Louisa May Alcott
heart thinking broken
Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts. Louisa May Alcott
heart men water
The savor of the water mint rejoiceth the heart of men. John Gerard
heart men ears
If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears; Like the notes of a fiddle, she sweetly, sweetly Raises the spirits, and charms our ears. John Gay
heart honest slave
Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart. John Ford
heart speaking-well tongue
You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart. John Ford
heart wine medicine
Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit; There is no cure 'gainst age but it. and 'Tis late and cold, stir up the fire; Sit close and draw the table nigher; Be merry and drink wine that is old, A hearty medicine 'gainst the cold. John Fletcher
heart thinking world
When the world smiles upon us, and we have got a warm nest, how do we prophesy of rest and peace in those acquisitions, thinking with good Baruch, great things for ourselves, but Providence by a particular or general calamity overturns our plans (Jer. 45:4,5), and all this to turn our hearts from the creature to God. John Flavel
heart thinking tears
Tell me, you vain professor, when did you shed a tear for the deadness, hardness, unbelief, or earthliness of your heart? Do you think that such an easy religion can save you? If so, we may invert Christ's words and say, 'Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to life, and may there be that go in there.' John Flavel
heart men self
There is no grace more excellent than faith; no sin more execrable and abominable then unbelief. Faith is the saving grace and unbelief the damning sin. (Mark 16:16) ... Before Christ can be received, the heart must be emptied and opened: but men's heart's are full of self-righteousn ess and vain confidence (Rom 10:3). John Flavel
heart godly world
If God has given you but a small portion of the world, yet if you are godly He has promised never to forsake you (Heb. 13:5). Providence has ordered that condition for you which is really best for your eternal good. If you had more of the world than you have, your heads and hearts might not be able to manage it to your advantage. John Flavel
heart men understanding
Let us see that our knowledge of Christ be not a powerless, barren, unpractical knowledge: O that, in its passage from our understanding to our lips, it might powerfully melt, sweeten, and ravish our hearts! Remember, brethren, a holy calling never saved any man, without a holy heart; if our tongues only be sanctified, our whole man must be damned. We must be judged by the same gospel, and stand at the same bar, and be sentenced to the same terms, and dealt with as severely as any other men. John Flavel