Heart Quotes - Philosophers & Psychologists

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Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. ~ Confucius

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. ~ Carl Jung


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. ~ Plato

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart. ~ Sigmund Freud

The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls. ~ Melody Beattie

There is no mistaking love. You feel it in your heart. It is the common fiber of life, the flame that heals our soul, energizes our spirit and supplies passion to our lives. It is our connection to God and to each other. ~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition. ~ Elbert Hubbard

The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts. ~ Friedrich Nietzche

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he/she has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to her. ~ Rumi

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor. ~ Johann Von Schiller

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely, the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. ~ Confucius

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it. ~ Epictetus

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. ~ Rumi

Words are just words and without heart they have no meaning. ~ Chinese Proverb

No task in this world is impossible so long as there are willing hearts (Where there's a will, there's a way.) ~ Chinese Proverb