A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

Anyone who makes up their mind about an issue before they hear the issue is a fool.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds that happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

I believe that every human has a finite amount of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

Listen if you want to be heard

Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts.

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Nature is not human-hearted.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

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.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

The heart was made to be broken.

The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

The worst prison would be a closed heart.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form....Love alone is my religion.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.

When you love you should not say, God is in my heart, but rather, I am in the heart of God. and think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.