Quotes about the heart

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity.

Stephen Covey

Empathy feels these thoughts; your hurt is in my heart, your loss is in my prayers, your sorrow is in my soul, and your tears are in my eyes.

William Arthur Ward

Where there is no heart there is no art.

Anna Pavlova

A woman’s heart should be so close to God that a man should have to chase Him to find her.

C. S. Lewis

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.

Paulo Coelho

I love everybody. My heart’s open to everybody.

Dolly Parton

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Poetry and music are the best at the highest level of the human mind. Out of poetry, out of their need for poetry, human beings have developed the idea of God. And so when we sing, when we dance, when we speak poetry we are speaking out of God’s mouth, each other out of the music from God’s heart.

Maya Angelou

In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in respect and reverence, but there is no question of my pleasure and pride in having it for myself.

John Steinbeck

The heart has no tears to give – it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

Harriet Beecher Stowe