Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
Quotations
Heart
Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart.
-Sarah Ban Breathnach "Sarah Breathnach"
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-Maya Angelou
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
"The Little Prince"
The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart.
-Jacqueline Carey
"Kushiel's Chosen"
The human heart is a healer, which heals both others and ourselves.
-Swami Dhyan Giten "Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being"
Sometimes, the only soul that can mend a broken heart is the one that broke it. For they are the ones holding all the pieces.
-Patti Roberts
"The Angels Are Here"
Within the lotus of the heart He dwells, where nerves meet like spokes of a wheel at its hub. Meditate on Him as Aum, Easily may you cross the sea of darkness.
-Mundaka Upanishad "Mundaka Upanishad"
