"Beware how you give your heart."
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"What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?"
"Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you."
"Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?"
"Life, Steffi has learned, carries on around the pain, making room for it, absorbing it until it becomes part of the daily fabric, wrapping itself around you and lodging itself in your heart."
"Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts."
"It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me."
"Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this would be to overcome nature, to reshape God's handiwork. If God bade man annihilate the passions he has given him, God would bid him be and not be; He would contradict himself. He has never given such a foolish commandment, there is nothing like it written on the heart of man, and what God will have a man do, He does not leave to the words of another man. He speaks Himself; His words are written in the secret heart."
"To whomever gives a kiss or a blow Render a kiss or blow But to whomever gives when you are unable to return Offer all the hatred in your heart For you were slaves and he enslaves you"
"I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be."
"the Lord does not so much look at the work that is done, as at the faithfulness of our hearts in doing it."
"Don't tell me this town 'aint got no heart"
"Intelligence comes into being when the mind, the heart and the body are really harmonious."
"Truth is something which you must see immediately — and to see something clearly you must give your heart and your mind and your whole being to it immediately."
"To concentrate implies bringing all your energy to focus on a certain point; but thought wanders away... Whereas attention has no control, no concentration. It is complete attention, which means giving all your energy, the energy of the brain, your heart, everything, to attending."
"I can't fax you my love, I can't email my heart."
"Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other, In blackness of heart - that we war to the knife? God pity us all in our pitiful strife"
"The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence."
"We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!"
"There is a politeness of the heart; this is closely allied to love."