The heart is not simply suspended in a body
but in a culture, a place, a time.
-Mimi Guarneri
The heart of man
is older than his head.
-Frederick W. Ziegler
Man becomes man only by the intelligence,
but he is man only by the heart.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
If your heart tells you one thing
and you head tells you another,
before you do anything,
you should first decide
whether you have a better head or a better heart.
-Marilyn vos Savant
The heart surrenders everything to the moment.
The mind judges and holds back.
-Richard Alpert, "Ram Dass" 
Mind creates the abyss,
the heart crosses it.
-Nisargadatta
Great thoughts come from the heart.
-Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
The mind knows only
what lies near the heart.
-Edith Hamilton
Mind is the partial side of man;
the heart is everything.
-Antoine Rivarol
When the heart speaks,
the mind finds it indecent to object.
-Milan Kundera
Your heart is the light of this world.
Don't cover it with your mind.
-Anthony Paul Moo-Young, "Mooji"
If you want to hear news of the heart,
ask the face.
-West African Proverb
All that is in the heart
is written in the face.
-African Proverb
Life can be seen through your eyes
but it is not fully appreciated
until it is seen through the heart.
-Mary Xavier
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
In whatever one does,
there must be a relationship
between the eye and the heart.
-Henri Cartier-Besson
There is a road from the eye to the heart
that does not go through the intellect.
-G. K. Chesterton
We know the quality of another’s heart
through her voice.
-Terry Tempest Williams
Listen with the ear of your heart.
-Prologue to Rule of Saint Benedict
The hand cannot reach
higher than the heart.
-Orison Swett Marden
Now join your hands
and with your hands your hearts.
-William Shakespeare
A good heart is worth gold.
-William Shakespeare
Only the heart knows
how to find what is precious.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
Only where the heart is,
can the treasure be found.
-James M. Barrie
Be persuaded that your only treasures
are those which you carry in your heart.
-Demophilus
What the heart has once owned and had,
it can never lose.
-Henry Ward Beecher
Life in the heart comes
when consciousness is centered in feeling.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
The way of the heart
is one of compassion and emotional perception.
-Gary Zukav
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
-George Gordon Noel Byron
The answer to your questions?
Ask your own heart.
-Hsu Yun
Go to your bosom:
Knock there
and ask your heart what it doth know.
-William Shakespeare
Who has not sat tense
before his own heart's curtain.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
The mouth keeps silent
to hear the heart speak.
-Alfred du Musset
There are no elements so diverse
that they cannot be reconciled in the heart of man.
-Jean Giraudoux
At some point
your heart will tell itself what to do.
-Achaan Chah
What the heart thinks,
the tongue speaks.
-Romanian Proverb
No language
but the language of the heart.
-Alexander Pope
When your heart speaks,
take good notes.
-Judith Campbell
The heart is the only book worth reading.
-Ajahn Chan
Return always to your heart
-The Oculatum
Somehow when the heart becomes single,
the rest will follow.
-Cynthia Bourgeault
When the heart is right,
the mind and the body will follow.
-Coretta Scott King
When the heart is at ease,
the body is healthy.
-Chinese Proverb
When a person 'comes alive',
this means that he has become the possessor of a heart.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
For a man to give full realization to his heart
is for him to understand his own nature.
-Mencius
The heart is its own Fate.
-Philip James Bailey
It's too late to start
For destinations not of the heart.
-R. S. Thomas
The door to the human heart
can only be opened from the inside.
-Spanish Proverb
In a full heart there is room for everything,
and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
-Antonio Porchia
The heart has always the pardoning power.
-Ann Swetchine
The heart outgrows old griefs.
-Ella Wheeler-Wilcox
Blessed are the hearts that can bend;
they shall never be broken.
-Albert Camus
Hearts are flowers;
they remain open to softly-falling dew,
but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.
-Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
Heart, be thou the sunflower.
-Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
May our heart's garden of awakening
bloom with hundreds of flowers.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
Keep a green tree alive in your heart
and a songbird may come there to sing.
-Chinese Proverb
My heart is like a singing bird.
-Christina Rossetti
Everything in life
responds to the song of the heart.
-Ernest Holmes
The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings,
all the chords of which require putting in harmony.
-Sa'adi
A good heart is the sun and the moon,
or, rather, the sun, and not the moon;
for it shines bright and never changes,
but keeps his course truly.
-William Shakespeare
Whatever comes from the heart
quietly touches every other heart.
-Anonymous
What comes from the heart,
goes to the heart.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Whate'er of us lives is the hearts of others
Is our truest and profoundest self.
-Johann Gottfried Herder
The same heart beats in every breast.
-Matthew Arnold
The heart in thee is the Heart of all.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pay attention now:
a heart that's all by itself is not a heart.
-Anthony Machado
When you begin to touch your heart
or let your heart be touched,
you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
-Pema Chodron
The heart of man and the bottom of the sea
are unfathomable.
-Jewish Proverb
Your heart is the size of an ocean.
Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
-Djalal ad-Din Rumi
Nobody has ever measured, even poets,
how much the heart can hold.
-Zelda Fitzgerald
The human heart is no small thing,
for it can embrace so much.
-Origen
If your heart is large enough,
there is nothing it will not accomodate.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
The human heart is vast enough
to contain all the world.
-Joseph Conrad
There is no country but the heart.
-Robert Penn Warren
If one only knew how large the heart is!
It accommodates heaven and earth,
all the sea and all the land.
-The Nizam of Hyderabad
The heart that breaks open
can contain the whole universe.
-Joanna Macy
By the word heart, of course, we here mean not merely
'the seat of affections,' 'the organ of tender emotion,' and the like:
but rather the inmost sanctuary of personal being,
the synthesis of its love and will,
the very source of its energy and life.
-Evelyn Underhill
Heart is that factor of our being, of our thinking,
which feels within itself a longing to express love;
it is an awakening of love and to a feeling of love.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
If my heart can become pure and simple,
like that of a child,
I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.
-Kitaro Nishida
I have a heart with room for every joy.
-Philip James Bailey
A joyful heart
is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.
-Mother Teresa
The more the heart is sated with joy,
the more it becomes insatiable.
-Gabrielle Roy
Fearless is a heart aflame with love.
-James Davis
To give one's heart
is to give all.
-Mohandas Gandhi
When two hearts become one
they can remove mountains.
-Persian Saying
The simple heart
that freely asks in love, obtains.
-John Greenleaf Whittier
Great heart will not be denied.
-J. R. R. Tolkien
The greatest of men
uses his heart like a mirror.
-Tchuang Dsi
My heart can take on any form,
a meadow for gazelles, a cloister for monks.
-Ibn Arabi
The sky gave me its heart
because it knew mine was not large enough
the care for the earth the way it did.
-Rabia al-Adawiyyah
The human heart [is] the mirror which reflects God.
-Angelus Silesius