The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Henry Ward Beecher

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success. Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Nikola Tesla

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

Homer

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

Rabindranath Tagore

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Martin Luther

Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.

Johannes Tauler

In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!

Johannes Tauler

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

William Hazlitt

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

George Washington

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

William Hazlitt

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

Joseph Conrad

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Jane Austen

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Khalil Gibran

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

D. H. Lawrence

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache do be my enemy--for friendship's sake.

William Blake

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Khalil Gibran

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Virginia Woolf

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

William Shakespeare

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

Orison Swett Marden

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.

Georg Trakl

What comes from the heart goes to the heart.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

Martin Luther

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Charles Dickens

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart mark and avoid him.

Cicero

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

George Sand

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

Laurence Sterne

Love is when you don’t have to be with another person to touch their heart!

Torquato Tasso

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Thomas Carlyle

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Martin Luther

The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart.

Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

William Shakespeare

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A cat's love is like a gentle touch that soothes the soul and heals the heart.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

William Shakespeare

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the heart of winter, the night sky becomes a tapestry of stars, and the moon's glow is reflected in the shimmering expanse of snow. It's a celestial dance overhead, inviting us to look up and contemplate the vastness of the universe while feeling the comforting crunch of snow beneath our boots.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

Washington Irving

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.

William Penn

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

Victor Hugo

There is a wisdom of the head, and ... a wisdom of the heart.

Charles Dickens

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Immanuel Kant

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Henry Ward Beecher

Music is the key to the female heart.

Johann Gottfried Seume

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Vincent van Gogh

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

Henry Ward Beecher

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

Oscar Wilde