Quotes about Heart

A heart at peace gives life to the body.

Who needs a house? I'm talking about your heart. You have plenty of guest rooms there. And that's what you do. You open your heart to people. You keep lovely little rooms in there, just waiting for your friends to come visit. People feel as if they can come right in, just as they are. You don't entertain, you love. That's what lasts. That's why people like me feel as if I will always be your friend. You hold a special place for me in your heart.

Typically, the louder a voice gets, the bigger the knot in my gut grows. So I have to turn my heart and mind toward our Heavenly Father and ask, "Is this pit in my stomach about today or is it about what already happened in the past or about what I'm afraid might happen in the future?

IRISH BLESSING   And may I conclude with a little Irish blessing — although, some suggest it's a curse: May those who love us, love us. And those who don't love us, may God turn their hearts. And if He doesn't turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles so we'll know them by their limping. Speech on Administrative Goals to Senior Presidential Appointees, September 8, 1987

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

From earliest childhood, an arrow of grief has been embedded in my heart. As long as it remains there, I am ironic — if it is drawn out, I will die.

I lift my hands to believe again. You are my refuge. You are my strength. As I pour out my heart, these things I remember, You are faithful, God, forever.

There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity.

But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight.