Human Heart Quotes - Page 15

• The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Hatred, Here And There

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Father Goriot”, p.24, Library of Alexandria

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• Loyalty is the greatest quality of the human heart.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Loyalty, Heart, Quality

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• You could see a man talking to himself as just plain crazy, or read about the criminal on the front page of the daily paper and ponder the corruption of the human heart, without having to think about whether the criminal or lunatic said something about your own fate.

  Barack Obama

  Crazy, Heart, Fate

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, p.311, Broadway Books

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• A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.

  William Blake

  Heart, Iron, Faces

  William Blake (2015). “Poems of William Blake”, p.69, The Floating Press

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• Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

  Robin Hobb

  Heart, Balance, Strange

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• You could not give up a human heart as you could give up drinking. The drink was yours, and you could give it up: but your lover’s soul was not your own: it was not at your disposal; you had a duty towards it.

  T. H. White

  Giving Up, Drinking, Heart

  T.H. WHITE (1958). “THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING”

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• I believe there is an evolutionary impulse toward good that is etched on every human heart. It is placed there by the hand of God.

  Marianne Williamson

  Believe, Heart, Hands

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• D.H. Lawrence says that myths are "inexhaustible" because they are symbols of heart mysteries. That is, they can't be exhausted - they somehow have embodied some central human mystery (love, loss, being a body in time, who knows which or what?) and thus can be retold infinitely and still be rich. That's part of your saying: it's old, but it's also new. Or: there's nothing "new" in the human heart, but it still matters lots.

  Gregory Orr

  Heart, Loss, Body

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Murder and hate are as deeply buried in the human heart as love, perhaps more so, and in truth they're rather entwined, and if you tried to separate them, you'd be missing something important and human.

  Richard Flanagan

  Hate, Heart, Missing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I admitted that I did not understand life. What I meant was that I am bewildered by human hearts and motivations, including my own.

  Norman Lock

  Motivation, Heart, Humans

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have a profound dislike for showing off one's material wealth. This is insensitive and it is not what human hearts are made for. But what I like about China and sometimes miss in Europe is the entrepreneurial spirit of our young people, their ambition and dynamism.

  Zhang Xin

  Ambition, Heart, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that.

  Shane Claiborne

  Heart, Law, Needs

  "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.

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• What will be required to increase the quality of life and health is a coming together of technology and values, based on a scientific guiding principle that people can agree on. Securing a healthy global future requires this guiding principle to preserve freedom of spirit yet be as provable as the laws of physics. A guiding principle that addresses the meaning of life and is compelling enough to generate social cohesion and behaviors that serve the greater whole. After thirty years of investigation and research, it has become clear to me that the answer lies within the human heart.

  Doc Childre

  Lying, Heart, Technology

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• Kaz's wilder work captures the great beauty of the human heart and the natural world.

  Joan Halifax

  Heart, World, Natural

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• Works of Art are meant to connect the human heart to inspiration, for cosmic consciousness to grow in the Supreme Reality rooted in Life and Being.

  Nelly Mazloum

  Dance, Art, Inspiration

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• God, what a world, if men in street and mart felt that same kinship of the human heart which makes them, in the face of fire and flood, rise to the meaning of true brotherhood.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Heart, Men, Fire

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1837, Delphi Classics

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• There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.

  James T. Rapier

  Bullying, Heart, Safety

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• The whole idea of worship being associated with music, it gives you an impotence to make art that is true, that is honest and that opens the human heart to God and to reality.

  Michael Gungor

  Art, Reality, Ideas

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume, in derision of suffering humanity, that it has declined? They lament the lack of leisure, the lack of sentiment ... They talk of telegrams, and telephones, and postal cards, as if any discovery of science, any device of civilization, could eradicate from the human heart that passion for self-expression which is the impelling force of letters.

  Agnes Repplier

  Passion, Writing, Heart

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• God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.

  John Ruskin

  Heart, Great Men, Gods Will

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1865). “Precious Thoughts”, p.101

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• I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son towards a mother.

  Hannah More

  Mother, Grateful, Heart

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.390

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• Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Stupid, Athlete, Heart

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.5, Grove Press

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• if you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago. ... you must write to the human heart, the great consciousness that all humanity goes to make up. Otherwise what might be strength in a writer is only crudeness, and what might be insight is only observation; sentimemnt falls to sentimentality - you can write about life, but never write life itself.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Fall, Writing, Heart

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• Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.

  Agnes Repplier

  Laughter, Spring, Heart

  Agnes Repplier (1936). “In Pursuit of Laughter ...”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration.

  Plutarch

  Heart, Hearing, Consideration

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