It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.
Accidents on big mountains happen when people’s ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.
Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
It’s kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
I always believe that if you have a good heart, you just want to do what’s right. You don’t want to step on anyone.
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world’s heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.
There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you’d had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.
Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.
Ethiopia is engraved on my heart. I first went in 1973 because I heard of a terrible famine. They were denying it even as we got the film out. The coverage destroyed the emperor’s credibility.
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.
The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a vivid image to me; once you have the heart of somebody else inside you, then that heart is there. Jesus’ heart is inside me, and my heart is gone. So if God were to place a stethoscope against my chest, he would hear the heart of Jesus Christ beating.
The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
I love my living room: it’s the heart of my home where I get to chill and spend time with family and friends.
The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.
Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.
There is no shortcuts. Play your best tennis, give your heart out, and anything can happen.
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.
Bangladesh is not a rich country, but we have a big heart.
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
Surfing big waves is not an extreme sport to me. I fall off, tumble down, and come up. My heart’s racing because I’m thinking I almost drowned, and I thank God I can breathe again, but I always think, ‘What am I hitting?’ Water.
You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
Have a strong mind and a soft heart.
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
The people that are closest to your heart are always the people who were with you when you had nothing.
Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.
Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.
My favorite body part is my heart. Nothing beats loving and being loved.
I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.
There are days when my heart is troubled, and just being in the Lord’s presence and thinking about His love for me fills my heart with inexplicable peace and joy.
What light is to the eyes – what air is to the lungs – what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves ‘It’s pretty, but is it Art?’
Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
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.
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
I am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed.
Take everything you know. Take your whole selves. Be inclusive. Be open. Make history in the infinite ways that your heart takes you.
It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
I only do what comes from the heart.
Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it’s not yours anymore. It’s laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word – politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
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.
A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.
There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus the Christ. It is the time to love the Lord, our God, with all our heart – and our neighbors as ourselves.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
A controlled carbohydrate lifestyle really prevents risk factors for heart disease.
In my heart, I’m confident I could make a good president.
When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
Every man’s heart one day beats its final beat. His lungs breathe a final breath. And if what that man did in his life makes the blood pulse through the body of others, and makes them bleed deeper and something larger than life, then his essence, his spirit, will be immortalized.
I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.
Eve was not taken out of Adam’s head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.
Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
In ‘Huckleberry Finn,’ I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had.
In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.
Athletics is not so much about the legs. It’s about the heart and mind.
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
A heart that hurts is a heart that works.
The Duke family, those are my brothers, and it’s something I’ll always take with me. Coach K, he gives me a lot of motivational things and checks in on me and my family. He knows where my heart is.
I think it’s because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn’t necessarily reach the heart.
