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Heart Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “That the heart cannot choose but love. That’s where poetry’s so fine; it tells us what is not, what’s not only better than what is, but much more like the truth, “cannot choose but love,” – it might want not to, but it can’t help it.”

Ivan Turgenev

Love, Poetry, Truth, Heart, Fate

2. “I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.”

Charles Lamb

Heart, Library, Knowledge, Wisdom, Advice

3. “There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.”

Margaret Fuller

Religion, Sympathy, Faith, Heart, Awareness

4. “When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.”

Ramakrishna

Meditation, Solitude, Heart, Awareness, Discrimination

5. “The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full-grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force. It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn.”

Ramakrishna

Bamboo, Growth, Heart, God, Training

6. “The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.”

Ramakrishna

Guidance, Direction, Heart, God, Focus

7. “The depth of the heart, the retired corner, and the forest are the three places for meditation.”

Ramakrishna

Meditation, Depth, Heart, Solitude, Focus

8. “The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.”

Ramakrishna

Compassion, Kindness, God, Protection, Heart

9. “Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully. So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.”

Ramakrishna

Light, Purity, Reflection, Divinity, Heart

10. “The only answer to fear is more understanding. And there is no understanding if there is no effort to look more deeply to see what is there in our heart and in the heart of the other person.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Fear, Understanding, Effort, Compassion, Heart

11. “Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Breathing, Heart, Awareness, Gratitude, Meditation

12. “Buddhism is in your heart. Even if you don’t have any temple or any monks, you can still be a Buddhist in your heart and life.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Buddhism, Heart, Spirituality, Practice, Awareness

13. “The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Happiness, Freedom, Heart, Choice, Peace

14. “To make peace, our hearts must be at peace with the world.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Peace, Heart, Harmony, Inner-Peace, Connection

15. “The heart of the matter is always our oneness with divine spirit, our union with all life.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Heart, Oneness, Spirit, Life, Union

16. “Forgiveness will not be possible until compassion is born in your heart.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Forgiveness, Compassion, Heart, Peace, Healing

17. “May our heart’s garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Heart, Awakening, Growth, Beauty, Abundance

18. “When your mind is liberated, your heart floods with compassion.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Mind, Liberation, Heart, Compassion, Freedom

19. “Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.”

Plutarch

Friendship, Happiness, Heart, Joy, Companionship

20. “From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain, we rise to play a greater part. This is the faith from which we start.”

Leonard Cohen

Heart, Passion, Pain, Growth, Faith

21. “Every heart to Love will come, but like a refugee.”

Leonard Cohen

Love, Refuge, Journey, Seeking, Heart

22. “No one masters the heart.”

Leonard Cohen

Heart, Emotion, Mystery, Life, Struggle

23. “He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.”

Leonard Cohen

Love, Heart, Shape, Humanity, Emotion

24. “One opens the inner doors of one’s heart to the infinite silences of the Spirit, out of whose abysses love wells up without fail and gives itself to all.”

Thomas Merton

Heart, Silence, Spirit, Love, Infinity

25. “By “prayer of the heart” we seek God himself present in the depths of our being and meet him there by invoking the name of Jesus in faith, wonder and love.”

Thomas Merton

Prayer, Heart, God, Faith, Inner Peace