The Heart Sayings and Quotes

Our hearts are quite the persistent little devices. Just pumping away, they keep us alive physically and emotionally, even when we think life is too much to bear. Below you’ll find a collection of wise and insightful quotes about the heart.

But my heart it is brighter than all of the many Stars in the sky. Edgar A. Poe
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition! Elbert Hubbard
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one life the aching, or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. Emily Dickinson
The heart that loves is always young. Greek Proverb
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
A friend is what the heart needs all the time. Henry Van Dyke
Our hearts are lamps forever burning.. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every heart has its dark recesses, its cheerful sunny parlors, and its attic chambers. James Lendall Basford
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. Jane Austen
When your heart speaks, take good notes. Judith Campbell
Accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. Khalil Gibran
Tears come from the heart and not from the brain. Leonardo da Vinci
God, why do I storm heaven for answers that are already in my heart? Every grace I need has already been given me. Oh, lead me to the Beyond within. Macrina Wieherkehr
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. Mahatma Gandhi
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. Mahatma Gandhi
Seek the wise and loving counsel of your Higher Self in the secret chamber of your heart. Marilyn C. Barrick
You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns. Mark Twain
It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty. Mark Twain
You change your life by changing your heart. Max Lucado
Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout. Just as a lotus flower springs from the mire to bloom splendidly, the interaction of the cosmic breath causes the flower of the spirit to bloom and bear fruit in this world. Morihei Ueshiba
A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love. Mother Teresa
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. Nelson Mandela
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. Oscar Wilde
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts. Paramahansa Yogananda
Home is where the heart is. Pliny the Elder
Who has not sat, afraid, before his own heart’s curtain? Rainer Maria Rilke
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I cleansed the mirror of my heart — now it reflects the moon. Renseki
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
If you become a helper of hearts, springs of wisdom will flow from your heart. Rumi