Quotes about heart

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Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

Source: Clockwork Princess

Source: Prep

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Time Keeper

Source: Because of Winn-Dixie

Source: Gone with the Wind

Source: Sexing the Cherry

Source: The Witches of Eileanan

Source: Phantom

Source: The Sunset Limited

Source: The Midnight Heir

Source: I Am the Messenger

Source: City of Lost Souls

Source: The Day Boy and the Night Girl

Source: The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 13

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: Bless Me, Ultima

Song lyrics, Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964), It Ain't Me Babe
Context: Go away from my window,
Leave at your own chosen speed,
I'm not the one you want, babe,
I'm not the one you need.
You say you're looking for someone,
Who's never weak but always strong,
To protect you and defend you,
Whether you are right or wrong,
Someone to open each and every door,
But it ain't me, babe,
No, no, no, it ain't me, babe,
It ain't me you're looking for, babe.

Source: Night Play

Source: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Source: Drowning Instinct

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

(19 September 1777)
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791)
Variant: We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Vol. 2, Ch. 26, § 320
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Counsels and Maxims

Source: The Book Thief

Source: The Scarecrow

As translated by William Scott Wilson. This first sentence of this passage was used as a military slogan during the early 20th century to encourage soldiers to throw themselves into battle. Variant translations:
Bushido is realised in the presence of death. In the case of having to choose between life and death you should choose death. There is no other reasoning. Move on with determination. To say dying without attaining ones aim is a foolish sacrifice of life is the flippant attitude of the sophisticates in the Kamigata area. In such a case it is difficult to make the right judgement. No one longs for death. We can speculate on whatever we like. But if we live without having attaining that aim, we are cowards. This is an important point and the correct path of the Samurai. When we calmly think of death morning and evening and are in despair, We are able to gain freedom in the way of the Samurai. Only then can we fulfil our duty without making mistakes in life.
By the Way of the warrior is meant death. The Way of the warrior is death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. It means nothing more than this. It means to see things through, being resolved.
I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.
The way of the Samurai is in death.
I have found the essence of Bushido: to die!
Hagakure (c. 1716)
Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
Context: The Way of the Samurai is found in death. When it comes to either/or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is not particularly difficult. Be determined and advance. To say that dying without reaching one's aim is to die a dog's death is the frivolous way of sophisticates. When pressed with the choice of life or death, it is not necessary to gain one's aim.
We all want to live. And in large part we make our logic according to what we like. But not having attained our aim and continuing to live is cowardice. This is a thin dangerous line. To die without gaining one's aim is a dog's death and fanaticism. But there is no shame in this. This is the substance of the Way of the Samurai. If by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the Way. His whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling.

Source: If You Could See Me Now

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Personal inscription on a copy of Mother Goose in Prose (1897) which he gave to his sister, Mary Louise Baum Brewster, as quoted in The Making of the Wizard of Oz (1998) by Aljean Harmetz, p. 317
Letters and essays
Context: When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children. For aside from my evident inability to do anything "great," I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

Source: The Iliad

Source: Sunset Gun: Poems

Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)

1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Context: I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Sentimental Education

Source: Vampire Academy

Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

Quoted in "The Way of Transition : Embracing Life's Most Difficult Moments" (2002) by William Bridges, p. 204

Source: Prologue to Mr. Addison's Cato (1713), Line 1.

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Source: Talulla Rising

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

Source: All About Love: New Visions

Source: The Guns of Avalon

Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story

Source: Sense and Sensibility

Source: The Zahir

Source: Stranger than Fiction

Source: Acheron

Source: Freak the Mighty

Source: On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl on One Beautiful April Morning

Canto I, Stanza 6; this can be compared to: "The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love", Thomas Gray, The Progress of Poesy I. 3, line 16; also: "Oh, could you view the melody / Of every grace / And music of her face", Richard Lovelace, Orpheus to Beasts; "There is music in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument", Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, Part ii, Section ix.
The Bride of Abydos (1813)

Source: Redwall

Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Source: Gone Girl

Source: Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World

Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

Source: The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

Source: The Wedding

Source: Cross Creek

Source: Little Women

Source: Even Vampires Get the Blues

Source: Tender Is the Night

Source: The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Powerbook

Source: The God of Small Things

Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

Source: Twenty Wishes

TED Conference http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html