Heart

Our hearts are lamps for ever burning… – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Your heart knows not how to lie. It is great that it lays deep in your chest and not in your mouth. – Kak Sri, 2010

Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always. – Brahmananda Saraswati

Only one book is worth reading: the heart. – Ajahn Chah

The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. – William Hazlitt

When you really want change, reinforcement will come from your heart. – Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman, Transforming Anger

[A]ccept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields…. – Khalil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923

It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty. – Mark Twain

The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the soul’s ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart. – Aristotle

When man is serene, the pulse of the heart flows and connects, just as pearls are joined together or like a string of red jade, then one can talk about a healthy heart. – The Yellow Emperor’s Canon of Internal Medicine, 2500 B.C.

Alas! there is no instinct like the heart… – Lord Byron

Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned… – William Butler Yeats, “A Prayer for my Daughter”

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud. And the sky of the sky of a tree called life; Which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide. And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart. I carry your heart. I carry it in my heart. – e.e. cummings

As a beam of sunlight sent through a room will at once reveal numberless motes floating in the air of the room, so a ray of Divine love let into the heart will immediately make visible to us a cloud of imperfections of which we were before entirely unaware. – B. Wilkinson

All that is worth cherishing begins in the heart. – Suzanne Chapin

The heart never becomes wrinkled. – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t, it is of no use. – Carlos Castaneda

A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love. – Mother Teresa

The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. – Blaise Pascal