Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
At that time, we were in charge. We didn't ask. We just did. We just did what was in our heart.
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames, I'm really into them.
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?
I think it's imperative to follow your heart and choose a profession you're passionate about, and if you haven't found that "spark" yet, if you're not sure what you want to do with your lives - be persistent until you do.
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.