The heart sees better than the eye.
~Hebrew Proverb~

A merry heart does good, like medicine, But a broken spirit dries the bones.
~Proverbs 17:22~

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
~Donna Roberts~

If a man be gracious to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and his heart is no island, cut off from other islands, but a continent that joins them.
~Sir Francis Bacon~

There is much satisfaction in work well done, but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.
~Victor Robinsoll~

There is in every true woman.s heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
~Washington Irving~

Making the decision to have a child—it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart walking around outside your body.
~Elizabeth Stone~

Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
~Thomas Paine~

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
~John Andrew Holmes~

We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.
~E. Merrill Root~

I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend against its force. My love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.
~Og Mandingo~

"There is only unconditional love; all else is approval. I believe that the purest love happens between those who least try to change each other. Think of people and their pets, grandparents and grands, handicapped people and their caregivers. It is there that each finds total acceptance and unconditional love."
~Peggy S. Grose~

THE HEART REVEALED
Choose
This day
Which master
You will honor.
You cannot serve both.
What is your heart's desire?
To love things and use people
Or love people and use things;
Will you find joy in love of power
Or perfection through the power of love?
~Doris Lakey~

"7 days without a laugh makes one heart weak."
~Abigail November~

"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing."
~Marc Chagall~

"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts."
~Charles Dickens~

"One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter."
~James Earl Jones~

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
~Antoine De Saint-Exupery~

"I am sure of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections."
~John O'Donohue~

"The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return."
~Maria Edgeworth~

"If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart."
~Marilyn Vos Savant~

"Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart."
~Joni Mitchell~

"A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see. If he hadn't broken your heart, you couldn't have that glorious feeling of relief!"
~Phyllis Battelle~

"There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories are full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream—whatever that dream might be."
~Pearl S. Buck~

"The human heart does not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making."
~Lillian Smith~

"In your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go and sheltered so may thrive and grow."
~Louise Driscoll~

"Gratitude is the heart's memory."
~French Proverb~

"It is not the glittering weapon that fights the fight, but rather the brave heart."
~Proverb~

"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."
~Maya Angelou~

"If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come."
~Chinese Proverb~

"A heart in love with beauty never grows old."
~Turkish Proverb~

"Gratitude is the heart's memory."
~French proverb~

"Be kind to bad and good, for you don't know your own heart."
~Sarah Winnemucca, (c.1842-1891) Indian scout, activist~

"If seed in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey towards the stars?"
~G.K. Chesterton~

"I think my life has been a long, slow process of trying to move closer and closer to the spirit by moving closer and closer to the heart. The heart is what's important."
~Burl Ives~

"The state of love is simply a state of joining within with another, heart to heart. It does not require a movement toward that person for satisfaction, for there is already joining present. When I meet you in my own heart, there is nowhere else to go."
~Paul Ferrini~

"It is my heart that makes my songs, not I."
~Sara Teasdale~

"Your heart often knows things before your mind does."
~Paula Adler~

"The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own."
~Willa Cather~

"Nobody has ever measured, not even the poets, how much a heart can hold."
~Zelda Fitzgerald~

"It is easier to gnaw through bone
Than the hide of the heart."
~Diane Glancy~

"What we have most to fear is failure of the heart."
~Sonia Johnson~

"Always there remain portions of our heart into which no one is able to enter, invite them as we may."
~Mary Dixon Thayer~

When you reach the heart of life, you shall find beauty in all things.
~Kahlil Gibran~

The woman's vision is deep reaching . . . the heart is her world.
~Betty Grable~

The heart that gives—gathers.
~Marianne Moore~

It's the heart that's afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
~Amanda McBroom (in the song, "The Rose", recorded by Bette Midler)~

I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.
~Katharine Whitehorn~

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
~Golda Meir~

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
~Maria Mitchell~

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.
~Frederika Bremer~

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
~Helen Keller~