Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henri Nouwen

While optimism makes us live as if someday soon things will soon go better for us, hope frees us from the need to predict the future and allows us to live in the present, with the deep trust that God will never leave us alone but will fulfill the deepest desires of our heart... Joy in this perspective is the fruit of hope.

Henri Nouwen

Yes, it's a competitive world, but where is your heart?

Henri Nouwen

Through compassion it is possible to recognize that the craving for love that people feel resides also in our own hearts, that the cruelty the world knows all too well is also rooted in our own impulses. Through compassion we also sense our hope for forgiveness in our friends' eyes and our hatred in their bitter mouths. When they kill, we know that we could have done it; when they give life, we know that we can do the same. For a compassionate person nothing human is alien: no joy and no sorrow, no way of living and no way of dying.

Henri Nouwen

Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.

Henri Nouwen

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

Hiawatha

Peace will be when you accept it in your heart.

Heywood Broun

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

Heston Blumenthal

I tend to take negative comments to heart.

Hernando Cortes

We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.

Hernando Cortes

I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold.

Hesiod

...Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus, has ordained this law to men: that fishes and wild beasts and winged birds should devour one another, since there is no justice in them; but to mankind he gave justice which proves for the best.

Herodotus

Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.

Henry R. Luce

I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.

Henry Rollins

I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don’t want to.

Helen McCrory

It's what people create that makes my heart stop.

Helen Rowland

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

Helen Rowland

Never worry for fear you have broken a man's heart; at the worst it is only sprained and a week's rest will put it in perfect working condition again.

Heinrich Heine

The years keep coming and going, Men will arise & depart; Only one thing is immortal: The love that is in my heart.

Heinrich Heine

In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous month of May when all the birds were singing, then did I reveal to her my yearning and longing.

Heinrich Heine

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

Heinrich Heine

If thou lookest on the lime-leaf, Thou a heart's form will discover; Therefore are the lindens ever Chosen seats of each fond lover.

Heinrich Heine

He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.

Heinrich Heine

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

Heather O'Neill

From the way that people have always talked about your heart being broken, it sort of seemed to be a one-time thing. Mine seemed to break all the time.

Hideo Kojima

When a man is hit by Friendly Fire, his blood pressure lowers and his morale sinks. I have been hit by Friendly Fire in my heart. Sighs spill from my body instead of blood.

Hilary Duff

And it only matters how true you are. Be true to yourself and follow your heart.

Hilary Mantel

God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.

Hilary Mantel

[T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.

Hilary Mantel

[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap...

Hilaire Belloc

I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: "Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied.

Hilaire Belloc

Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy.

Hilaire Belloc

The tender Evenlode that makes Her meadows hush to hear the sound Of waters mingling in the brakes, And binds my heart to English ground. A lovely river, all alone, She lingers in the hills and holds A hundred little towns of stone, Forgotten in the western wolds.

Henry Williamson

Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.