„People say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but I think they’re wrong: Proximity makes the heart grow fonder.“
— Jenny Han, book P.S. I Still Love You
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
„I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.“
Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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„People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.“
— Markus Zusak Australian author 1975
Source: I Am the Messenger
„Luck is something you make for yourself, if you want it.“
— Lois McMaster Bujold, Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)
„If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.“
— Angelina Jolie American actress, film director, and screenwriter 1975
„You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.“
— Amy Tan, book Saving Fish from Drowning
Source: Saving Fish from Drowning
„You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.“
— Ira Glass American radio personality 1959
„No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.“
— Stephen King, book It
Source: It (1986), Ch. 16 : Eddie's Bad Break, §8
Context: Maybe, he thought, there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends — maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for, too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.
„When the root of your wrong is not from the heart, your wrong will make you to run to God the more.“
— T. B. Joshua Nigerian Christian leader 1963
On the root of sin - "TB Joshua Defends Oyakhilome" http://www.herald.ng/tb-joshua-defends-oyakhilome-dont-disagree-peoples-understanding-differs/#rGUiGU1sJDEPXQC4.99 The Herald, Nigeria (March 23 2014)
„It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.“
— Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
Variant: It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
„By far the most vital lesson I have ever learned is the importance of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you are. Our thoughts make us what we are.“
— Dale Carnegie, book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), p. 5
„I will still be in some part the Jem you knew, and I will see you with the eyes of my heart.“
— Cassandra Clare, book Clockwork Princess
Source: Clockwork Princess
„I think, to be what you are, don't take advice from other people. Find your advice in your heart. Yes, find your advice in your heart. It's yours and you keep it. And if you think it's helpful to other people… then share it. I think the things we share are very important.“
— David Manners Canadian-born American actor 1900 - 1998
„Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be.“
— Jeanette Winterson English writer 1959
Source: The Powerbook
„So I would choose to be with you,
That's if the choice were mine to make,
But you can make decisions too,
And you can have this heart to break“
— Billy Joel American singer-songwriter and pianist 1949