Anna Quindlen Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

  Anna Quindlen

  Heart, Soul, Mind

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

• Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, terrorism, bigotry of every variety and hue, because it tells us there is one right way to do things, to look, to behave, to feel, when the only right way is to feel your heart hammering inside you and to listen to what its timpani is saying.

  Anna Quindlen

  Xenophobia, Heart, Racism

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.151, Random House

• Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations, and yes, your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world.

  Anna Quindlen

  Courage, Heart, Character

• Speech is the voice of the heart.

  Anna Quindlen

  Heart, Voice, Speech

• What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is unconditional love, the ability to finish my sentences for me when I am sobbing, a complete and total willingness to pour their hearts out to me, and the ability to tell me why the meat thermometer isn't supposed to touch the bone.

  Anna Quindlen

  Friendship, Women, Heart

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.32, Ballantine Books

• People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine: robust, delicate, muscular. This has nothing to do with how most of us experience it, the heart coming around the corner and unexpectedly running into the mind. Of all the words that have stuck to the ribs of my soul, poetry has been the most filling.

  Anna Quindlen

  Running, Heart, Wine

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, Random House Large Print Publishing

• I know the difference now between dedication and infatuation. That doesn't mean I don't still get an enormous kick out of infatuation;: the exciting ephemera, the punch in the stomach, the
  adrenaline to the heart.

  Anna Quindlen

  Heart, Mean, Dedication

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.83, Ballantine Books

• You teach your 16-year-old with your heart in your mouth to be a good driver and none of that makes any difference when some drunk comes around a corner and runs a stop sign.

  Anna Quindlen

  Running, Heart, Years

• I really feel like I'm a liberal because I'm a Catholic, because I took the words of the New Testament to heart.

  Anna Quindlen

  Heart, Catholic, New Testament

• There are those of us who believe that under certain conditions the cruelest thing you can do to people you love is to force them to live. There are those of us who define living not by whether the heart beats and the lungs lift but whether the spirit is there, whether the music box plays.

  Anna Quindlen

  Believe, Heart, Love Is

• It is this that, finally, I will try to teach my sons about sex, after I've explained fertile periods and birth control and all the other mechanics that are important to understand but never really go to the heart of the matter: I believe I will say that when you sleep with someone you take off a lot more than your clothes.

  Anna Quindlen

  Sex, Believe, Heart

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.219, Ballantine Books

• For most of my adult life, I have been an emotional hit-and- run driver--that is, a reporter. I made people like me, trust me, open their hearts and their minds to me, and cry and bleed on to the pages of my neat little notebooks, and then I went back to a safe place and made a story out of it.

  Anna Quindlen

  Trust, Notebook, Running

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.224, Ballantine Books

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