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Nevertheless statesmen are still greatly exercised by the problem of the international distribution of money. For hundreds of years, the Midas Theory, systematized by Mercantilism, has been the rule followed by governments in taking measures of commercial policy. In spite of Hume, Smith, and Ricardo, it still dominates men's minds more than would be expected. Phoenix-like, it rises again and again from its own ashes.
— Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit
He who cares to go to the trouble of demonstrating the uselessness of index numbers for monetary theory and the concrete tasks of monetary policy will be able to select a good proportion of his weapons from the writings of the very men who invented them.
— Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit
There are two parts to the problem of measuring the objective exchange-value of money. First we have to obtain numerical demonstration of the fact of variations in the objective exchange-value of money; then the question must be decided whether it is possible to make a quantitative examination of the causes of particular price movements, with special reference to the question whether it would be possible to produce.So far as the first-named problem is concerned, it is self-evident that its solution must assume the existence of a good, or complex of goods, of unchanging objective exchange-value. The fact that such goods are inconceivable needs no further elucidation.If the one is proved to be soluble, then so also is the other; and proof of the insolubility of the one is also proof of the insolubility of the other.
— Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit
To measure is to determine the ratio of one quantity to another which is invariable or assumed to be invariable. Invariability in respect of the property to be measured, or at least the legitimacy of assuming such invariability, is a sine qua non of all measurement. Only when this assumption is admissible is it possible to determine the variations that are to be measured.
— Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit
Determinants of prices have their effect only through the medium of the subjective estimates of individuals
—  and the extent to which any given factor influences these subjective estimates can never be predicted.
Under certain conditions, index numbers may do very useful service as an aid to investigation into the history and statistics of prices; for the extension of the theory of the nature and value of money they are unfortunately not very important.
— Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit
All index-number systems, so far as they are intended to have a greater significance for monetary theory than that of mere playing with figures, are based upon the idea of measuring the utility of a certain quantity of money. The object is to determine whether a gramme of gold is more or less useful to-day than it was at a certain time in the past. As far as objective use-value is concerned, such an investigation may perhaps yield results. We may assume the fiction, if we like, that, say, a loaf of bread is always of the same utility in the objective sense, always comprises the same food value. It is not necessary for us to enter at all into the question of whether this is permissible or not.
— Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit
Even if index numbers cannot fulfill the demands that theory has to make, they can still, in spite of their fundamental shortcomings and the inexactness of the methods by which they are actually determined, perform useful workaday services for the politician. If we have no other aim in view than the comparison of points of time that lie close to one another, then the errors that are involved in every method of calculating numbers may be so far ignored as to allow us to draw certain rough conclusions from them. Thus, for example, it becomes possible to a certain extent to span the temporal gap that lies, in a period of variation in the value of money, between movements of Stock Exchange rates and movements of the purchasing power that is expressed in the prices of commodities.
— Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit
For hundreds, even thousands, of years, people completely failed to see that variations in the objective exchange-value of money could be induced by monetary factors. They tried to explain all variations of prices exclusively from the commodity side.
— Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit
When individuals are exchanging present goods against future goods they do not take account in their valuations of Variations in the objective exchange-value of money. Lenders and borrowers are not in the habit of allowing for possible future fluctuations in the objective exchange-value of money.
— Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit
The jurist is totally unacquainted with the problem of the value of money; he knows nothing of fluctuations in its exchange-value. The naive popular belief in the stability of the value of money has been admitted, with all its obscurity, into the law, and no great historical cause of large and sudden variations in the value of money has ever provided.
— Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit
At one time, this gave rise to the question of whether the legal validity of the money was determined by the stamp of the ruler of the country or by the metal content of the coin; later, to the question of whether the command of the law or the free usage of business was to settle if the money was legal tender or not. The answer of public opinion, grounded on the principles of private property and the protection of acquired rights, ran the same in both cases: Prout quidque eontraetum est, ita et solvi debet; ut cum re eontraximus, re solvi debet, veluti cum mutuum dedimus, ut Tetro pecuniae tantundem solvi debeat.
— Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit
So far as variations in the objective exchange-value of money are foreseen, they influence the terms of credit transactions. If a future fall in the purchasing power of the monetary unit has to be reckoned with, lenders must be prepared for the fact that the sum of money which a debtor repays at the conclusion of the transaction will have a smaller purchasing power than the sum originally lent. Lenders, in fact, would do better not to lend at all, but to buy other goods with their money. The contrary is true for debtors. If they buy commodities with the money they have borrowed and sell them again after a time, they will retain a surplus over and above the sum that they have to pay back. The credit transaction results in a gain for them. Consequently it is not difficult to understand that, so long as continued depreciation is to be reckoned with, those who lend money demand higher rates of interest and those who borrow money are willing to pay the higher rates. If, on the other hand, it is expected that the value of money will increase, then the rate of interest will be lower than it would otherwise have been.
— Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit
When jurists and business men assert that the depreciation of money has a very great influence on all kinds of debt relations, that it makes all kinds of business more difficult, or even impossible, that it invariably leads to consequences that nobody desires and that everybody feels to be unjust, we naturally agree with them. In a social order that is entirely founded on the use of money and in which all accounting is done in terms of money, the destruction of the monetary system means nothing less than the destruction of the basis of all exchange. Nevertheless, this evil cannot be counteracted by ad hoc laws designed to remove the burden of the depreciation from single persons, or groups of persons, or classes of the community,
— Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
This is for girls who have the tendency to stay up at night listening to music that reminds them of their current situation. Who hide their fears, hurt, pain and tears under the smiles, laughs and giggles on a daily basis. The girls who wear their heart on their sleeve. The girls who pray that things will work out just once and they'll be satisfied. The girls who sceam and cry to their pillows because everyone else fails to listen. The girls who have so many secrets but wont tell a soul. The girls who have mistakes and regrets as a daily moral. The girls that never win. The girls that stay up all night thinking about that one boy and hoping that he'll notice her one day. The girls who take life as it comes, to the girls who are hoping that it'll get better somewhere down the road. For the girls who love with all their heart although it always gets broken. To girls who think it's over. To real girls, to all girls: You're beautiful.
— Zayn Malik
I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.
— Raymond Carver
Rhysand stared at me for long enough that I faced him."Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don't feel anything at all.
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses
Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
— Neil Gaiman, Stardust
The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.
— Charlie Sheen
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
— Homer, The Iliad
Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings
Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.
— Gustave Flaubert
The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song. (Psalm 28:7 NIV)
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version
A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.
— نجيب محفوظ, Sugar Street
The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and w
— Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
True love doesn't need proof.The eyes told what heart felt.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains ... an unuprooted small corner of 
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
If only my heart were stone.
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
— Benjamin Franklin
A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.
— Gabrielle Zevin
I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.
— Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
I’ve been through all this before,’ he says to his heart.“ ‘Yes, you have been through all this before,’ replies his heart. ‘But you have never been beyond it.
— Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light
Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart
—  it is memory that makes it our ruin.
Our heart always transcends us.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw. 
— George MacDonald, The Day Boy and the Night Girl
My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.
— Marie Lu, Champion
I’m mistaken….for thinking you were someone with a heart worth breaking.
— Coco J. Ginger
I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating. 
— E.B. White
On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn’t. Without even noticing what you’re doing, you open up your heart and just start talking to the person next to you—you talk as if you have no audience but the glittering stars, far overhead.
— Banana Yoshimoto, Goodbye Tsugumi
If Light Is In Your HeartYou Will Find Your Way Home.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
— Kahlil Gibran
If my heart grows any fonder, it's going to hop out of my chest and into yours.
— Olivia Cunning, Backstage Pass
She had power over the most magnificent forces on Earth, but she still didn’t feel like she had power over the most important thing of all—her own heart.
— Josephine Angelini, Goddess
I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.
— Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.
— Lao Tzu
Dearest Cecilia, You’d be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish in your presence, Cee, and I don’t think I can blame the heat.
— Ian McEwan, Atonement
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Kinda pointless to fight for what you want when what you want continues to break your heart
— Molly McAdams, Stealing Harper
What is this "heart"? If I tear open that chest of yours, will I see it there? If I smash open that skull of yours, will I see it there?~ulquiorra
— Tite Kubo
The heart is stubborn. It holds onto love despite what sense and emotion tells it. And it is often, in the battle of those three, the most brilliant of all.
— Alessandra Torre
When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
I am a sailor, you're my first mate We signed on together, we coupled our fate Hauled up our anchor, determined not to fail For the heart's treasure, together we set sail With no maps to guide us, we steered our own course Rode out the storms when the winds were gale force Sat out the doldrums in patience and hope Working together, we learned how to cope. Life is an ocean and love it a boat In troubled waters it keeps us afloat When we started the voyage there was just me and you Now gathered round us we have our own crew Together we're in this relationship We built it with care to last the whole trip Our true destination's not marked on any chart We're navigating the shores of the heart
— John McDermott
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 acts of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.
— James Boswell
Everytime, he breaks your heart. And everytime, he expects me to pick up the pieces.
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
He wasn't mine anywhere except in my heart.
— Lisa Kleypas, Smooth Talking Stranger
From the way that people have always talked about your heart being broken, it sort of seemed to be a one-time thing. Mine seemed to break all the time.
— Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals
What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?
— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.
— Amit Abraham
You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
— Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
You can deal with the brain, as I say; it looks sensible, whereas the heart, the human heart, I'm afraid, looks a fucking mess.
— Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10½  Chapters
Take care of my heart won't you, Sophie? It's a little odd having it outside my body-but I'm planning to steal yours to make up for it.
— Nalini Singh, Bonds of Justice
I smiled,"Deoch, my heart is made of stronger stuff than glass. When she strikes she'll find it strong as iron-bound brass, or gold and adamant together mixed. Don't think I am unaware, some startled deer to stand transfixed by hunter's horns. It's she who should take care, for when she strikes, my heart will make a sound so beautiful and bright that it can't help but bring her back to me in winged light.
— Patrick Rothfuss
To love is to accept a soul entirely, not wishing that the person was otherwise, nor hoping for change, nor clinging to some ideal past. To love is to cherish the individual standing before you presently―charms, quirks, and all. To love is to give someone a piece of your heart that you will never, ever reclaim.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.
— Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Ah, Evie,” she heard him say softly, “I must have a heart, after all…because right now it aches like the devil.”“Only your heart?” she asked ingenuously, making him laugh.He lowered her to the bed, his eyes sparkling wickedly. “Also a few other things,” he conceded. “And as my wife, it’s your duty to ease all my aches.
— Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Winter
By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
I must do something or I shall wear my heart away...
— Charles Dickens
At the core of your heart, you are perfect and pure. No one and nothing can alter that.
— Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
The heart wants who the heart wants. We can't help that.
— Abbi Glines, The Vincent Boys
...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
love being such, or such,the normal corners of your heartwill never guess how muchmy wonderful jealousy is dark
— E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems, 1904-1962
She says you're not truly human until you've had your heart broken and you've broken someone's heart.
— Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Front and Center
Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men's hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
— Thomas More, Utopia
Because when you find something you love, you can’t quit. Every failure pushes you harder. It’s in your soul and in your fucking heart
— Becca Ritchie, Hothouse Flower
Only with a clear mind will you be able to see who is truly in your heart.
— CLAMP
This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge. Events become feelings, fellings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians.
— Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl
They called each other family and that’s what they were—sisters. Many people in the world had family of the heart, kin by choice rather than by blood, and hers had come along in her darkest hour and saved her life.
— Christine Feehan, Spirit Bound
You can trust bad liars.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
Nothing shakes the smiling heart.
— Santosh Kalwar, I Am Dead Man Alive
Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.
— Philip Reeve
As you get older, the heart shed its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few more leaves; and then there are the storms that break off several branches at one go. And while nature’s greenery grows back again in the spring, that of the heart never grows back.
— Gustave Flaubert
Be gentle with him, Mercy. He's got a heart as big as Texas— he'll die for you without blinking. But he doesn't expect anyone to do the same for him.
— Nalini Singh, Branded by Fire
She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.
— Denis Johnson, Jesus' Son
Create with the heart
—  build with the mind.
. “Love doesn’t please itself by seeking revenge. Love sacrifices itself for the good of others.
— Kerrelyn Sparks, Be Still My Vampire Heart
What do you love more?” she teased. “My hair or my heart?” “Why give me only two choices? Don’t leave out your legs, your laugh, the way you bite your lip when you’re thinking, the feel of your breath on my face, the sound of your voice in the morning, the way you taste, the three freckles on your nose, the fan of your eyelashes, the caring spirit, the determined soul — so why stop at your hair and your heart? How do you expect me to choose? When what I love the most about you — is you.
— Rachel Van Dyken, Ruin
Be sure of your heart before you speak.
— Lisa Mangum, The Hourglass Door
Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.
— Bob Dylan
Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.
— Jennifer Aniston
Into your darkest corner, you are safe in my love, you are protected. I am the openess you seek, I am your doorway. Come sit in the circular temple of my heart, & let yourself be calm.
— Agapi Stassinopoulos
Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.
— Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays
Tell Hugh," she whispered.Tell Hugh your freaking self! He's right here! And you're not going anywhere.
— L.J. Smith
Riches I hold in light esteem,And love I laugh to scorn,And lust of fame was but a dreamThat vanished with the morn.And if I pray, the only prayerThat moves my lips for meIs, 'Leave the heart that now I bear,And give me liberty!'Yes, as my swift days near their goal,'Tis all that I implore -In life and death, a chainless soul,With courage to endure.
— Emily Brontë, The Complete Poems
Why break the heart that never beat from love?
— Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
He looked down at his boots. "That berth belongs to you too. It will always be there when―if you want to come back."Inej could not speak. Her heart felt too full, a dry creek bed ill-prepared for such rain. "I don't know what to say.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
When the petals of the heart unfold fragrance spreads across the valley.
— Amit Ray
Hold your head high heavy heart.
— William Beckett
Every Princess has one Prince to share the loves and joys of life, and do you know how that Princess knows which Prince is hers?”“How Mommy?”“From the kiss.”“But how?”“The very first kiss with your Prince will change your life. When your lips touch for the first time, the earth will feel like it stops moving, but in the same moment, the world around you spins. It’ll feel like fireworks in the night sky. Like a bright light in the darkness. You’ll feel your heart beat fast in your ears but silence will surround you. And when you pull apart and open your eyes and look at each other, and really see each other. You’ll know it in that moment, through that kiss, that you’ve just let someone own a piece of your heart, and you’ll live happily ever after.
— Jay McLean, More Than This
It's the time you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important...People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. You're responsible for your rose.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
I don't have a method of stepping into the depths of your heart without getting it dirty." -Kuchiki Rukia
— Tite Kubo
Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
— Jack Kornfield, A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life
The human heart is my school.
— Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand
Were I the Moor I would not be Iago.In following him I follow but myself;Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,But seeming so for my peculiar end.For when my outward action doth demonstrateThe native act and figure of my heartIn compliment extern, ’tis not long afterBut I will wear my heart upon my sleeveFor daws to peck at. I am not what I am
— William Shakespeare, Othello
We're all born with the greatest treasures we'll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart.
— Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin
His heart is too full, and no words to release it.
— Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
I wish I had no heart, it aches so…
— Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing—not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past.
— Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.
— C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Reese, your books might not tell you this, so I will. Every heart has two parts, the part that pumps and the part that loves. If you’re going to spend your life fixing broken hearts, then learn about both. You can’t just fix one with no concern for the other. 
— Charles Martin
The mind knows only what lies near the heart.
— Edith Hamilton, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
I am going to give you my heart now," I whispered. "Please don't break it again.
— Jessica Verday, The Haunted
First I lost my heart. Then I lost my mind.
— Jennifer Salvato Doktorski, How My Summer Went Up in Flames
The heart sometimes doesn’t care about limits.
— Kristen Ashley, Fire Inside
There are some parts of the world that, once visited, get into your heart and won't go. For me, India is such a place. When I first visited, I was stunned by the richness of the land, by its lush beauty and exotic architecture, by its ability to overload the senses with the pure, concentrated intensity of its colors, smells, tastes, and sounds. It was as if all my life I had been seeing the world in black and white and, when brought face-to-face with India, experienced everything re-rendered in brilliant technicolor.
— Keith Bellows
I have seen your heart, and it is mine.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
And what of the dead? They lie without shoesin the stone boats. They are more like stonethan the sea would be if it stopped. They refuseto be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone. 
— Anne Sexton
Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?
— Alan Moore, Watchmen
You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed — so you were a good man just the same.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
why, it beats so i can love you.
— Ronlyn Domingue, The Mercy of Thin Air
You shall love your neighbourWith your crooked heart,It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Let us liberate ourselves from any form of control. Let us focus at the inner drum, where the rhythm aligns with that of our heart. The measure of responsibility, equals to the need for evolution. Just listen, the inner child, let it whisper in your ear.
— Grigoris Deoudis
Eyes can only capture objects that already seen in mind.And mind can only see things that already written in heart.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
If I could touch anything in the world right now, it would be your heart. I want to take that piece of you and keep it with me.
— Jessica Verday, The Haunted
Then your heart is a black, shriveled thing, because you absolutely betray me.
— P.C. Cast, Untamed
Sinful heart blames.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an accident of birth. Real family was heart as much as, if not more than, blood.
— Martina Boone, Compulsion
your heart is a weapon the size of your fist. keep fighting. keep loving
— Leah Wilson, The Girl Who Was on Fire: Your Favorite Authors on Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy
The heart apparently doesn’t stop that easily.
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Please, no one touch my heart. Don't touch it. Don't notice anything. No one has to know what my heart is feeling. I decided that I wouldn't turn back. That's why I threw everything away. So, don't you ever say, "I'm lonely.
— Arina Tanemura
You're never perfectly safe. No human being on Earth ever is or ever was. To live is to risk your life, your heart, everything.
— Rick Yancey, The Last Star
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
— Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.
— Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make
Your heart is the beacon, your heart is the storm. Dare to embrace it; you'll never be torn.
— Vanna Bonta, Shades Of The World
As he was about to climb yet another dune, his heart whispered, "Be aware of the place where you are brought to tears. That's where I am, and thats where your treasure is.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Speak your heart. If they don’t understand, the message was never meant for them anyway.
— Yasmin Mogahed
No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.
— Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
My heart feels not so much in my chest as in my hands. I am carrying it along swiftly, as though I have become the messenger for what is going on inside me.
— Claire Keegan
In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.
— Melody Beattie, The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Life When It All Seems Too Hard to Take
I look into my heart and see the abyss looking back at me.''I won't let you fall.
— Nalini Singh, Archangel's Kiss
The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it.
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
...love is a chemical imbalance, too. That perilous highs and desperate lows and extravagant flurries of mood are not always symptoms of a broken mind, but signs of a beating heart.
— Terri Cheney, Manic: A Memoir
May your heart be lighter today.
— Harley King
Some of us have hearts, you know. Some of us don't give up on true love.
— Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl
The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
It is tragic to see how the religious sentiment of the West has become so individualized that concepts such as "a contrite heart," have come to refer only to the personal experiences of guilt and willingness to do penance for it. The awareness of our impurity in thoughts, words and deeds can indeed put us in a remorseful mood and create in us the hope for a forgiving gesture. But if the catastrophical events of our days, the wars, mass murders, unbridled violence, crowded prisons, torture chambers, the hunger and the illness of millions of people and he unnamable misery of a major part of the human race is safely kept outside the solitude of our hearts, our contrition remains no more than a pious emotion. 
— Henri J.M. Nouwen, Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life
When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.
— Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
Everybody will get their wants, when they heartily want.
— Santosh Kalwar
Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.
— Martin Luther
My heart is schizophrenic.
— Lesley Anne Cowan
The heart knows the immensity it wants to achieve, but it is limited.
— Nadia Scrieva
We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.
— Aimee Bender, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
By having good memories on every place you just visit, you are building paradise in your own heart and your life.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart
— Stephen R. Lawhead, Merlin
No one ever told me how sorrow traumatizes your heart, making you think it will never beat exactly the same way again. No one ever told me how grief feels like a wet sock in my mouth. One I’m forced to breathe through, thinking that with each breath I’ll come up short and suffocate.
— Sarah Noffke, Awoken
We cannot achieve more in life than what we believe in our heart of hearts we deserve to have.
— James R. Ball
Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?
— Robin Hobb, Ship of Destiny
Under her palm, his heart beat strong and sure. It was such a human sound, so honest, so real.
— Nalini Singh, Archangel's Kiss
I don't want to say something cheesy like 'home is where the heart is,' but home is definitely where the heart is. And my heart is, and has always been, with you.
— Melissa Senate, The Breakup Club
Get a grip on your heart and pride, girl. Nobody has or ever will give a damn whether you're happy or not.
— Sandy Blair, A Man In A Kilt
I was coming to see the heavier your heart got, the strongest you had to be to keep carrying it around.
— Alexandra Bracken, In The Afterlight
Speech is the voice of the heart.
— Anna Quindlen
How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, when memory plays an old tune on the heart!
— Eliza Cook
This is called ‘Black Box’, for the girl who holds the key to mine.
— Cassia Leo, Black Box
It was always once springtime in my heart.
— Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
I love you," she said, and I knew she meant it because she spoke the words from the heart at the center of her chest. This, at least, had not been left behind at the hospital.
— Augusten Burroughs, A Wolf at the Table
If you want to fight hell and the power of darkness that seek to destroy the hearts of our daughters, I know a type of spiritual warfare that creates value in a daughter's spirit. It is called "Taking your Daughter out for tea" or "Going to Her Soccer Game", and it works in direct opposition to the agenda of hell and darkness that wants to destroy their lives.
— Jim Anderson, Unmasked: Exposing the Cultural Sexual Assault
Everything in life is somewhere else and you get there through open heart.
— Santosh Kalwar
Your heart has a powerful little antenna and its vibrations can be felt throughout the universe.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
The great writer evokes the words that buried within hearts of readers.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Her hand rose to her lips and she stared up at the stars, feeling her heart grow, and grow, and grow.
— Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.
— Albert Camus, The Fall
Unshed tears leave a deposit on your heart. Eventually they form a crust around it and paralyze it, the way mineral deposits paralyze a washing machine.
— Susanna Tamaro, Follow Your Heart
A judgmental heart keeps listening to the things that annoy.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
— Alphonse de Lamartine
Heart lesson #3: post-heartbreak survival. The heart is resilient, I mean literally. When a body is burned, the heart is the last organ to oxidize. While the rest of the body can catch flame like a polyester sheet on campfire, it takes hours to burn the heart to ash. My dear sister, a near-perfect organ! Solid, inflammable.
— Ibi Kaslik, Skinny
My city. I pondered that phrase, wondered why Barrons felt that way. He never said “our world.” He always said “your world.” But he called Dublin his city. Merely because he’d been in it so long? Or had Barrons, like me, been beguiled by her tawdry grace, fallen for her charm and colorful dualities?I looked around “my” bookstore. That was what I called it. Did we call the things of our heart our own, whether they were or not?
— Karen Marie Moning, Dreamfever
Simon’s love life was complicated, but there was a pang, just for a moment, for this woman talking graphic novels with him. Ah, well. Tessa Gray, foxy nerd, was probably dating someone already.
— Cassandra Clare, The Whitechapel Fiend
Your lips were made for mine, Beck. You are the reason I have a mouth, a heart.
— Caroline Kepnes, You
She wasn't to know there was no room for Soren - or any other boy - in my heart. There was only one boy taking up that place.Luca.
— Lee Monroe, Dark Heart Rising
I was happy in the dream; but when I woke up it was with a feeling that I was falling apart, that I was cracking up from the inside and slowly falling to pieces. My heart was jumping and grating like a cold engine that doesn't want to start. My skin was crawling, and I couldn't manage a single clear thought. It was as if all my thoughts were crushed to bits just as they began to take shape. I didn't get much done that day.
— Ninni Holmqvist, The Unit
There’s a pause so yawning I can’t help but think about what it would be like to lean in and kiss her, but if I’m getting the signals wrong then I’m about to destroy the best run we’ve had all evening. It’s been at least ten minutes since I’ve done or said anything stupid.
— Leanne Hall, This is Shyness
If he were to put his heart in my hand, he might never find it again. And I'm not cruel enough to let him break while he tries to heal the impossible.
— Courtney C. Stevens, Faking Normal
The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.
— Blaise Pascal, Pensées
Colour outside the lines, live outside the box. Don’t let anyone tell you what to do, or not. Don’t be afraid, listen to your heart.	Heaven is a state of being – of one-ness, and Hell is a state of being – lost. We simply need to live as we best define ourselves, find our own ways of being who we are in our world.  There is no requirement - only freedom of choice. We should not be judged if we are doing what we think best according to our perceptions at any given time.	Guilt should be discarded, moved beyond - what matters is who we choose to be in the next moment, given what we might have learned. We continually create ourselves anew.	Forgiving someone is a great way to show love, and forgive yourself too for the hurt you held onto far too long.	Take back the energy you have wasted on these things and reclaim your power to be your next best self.	Honour the past but refresh, expand, renew, fulfill. Heaven is within us, always reachable.
— Jay Woodman
The enemy stays in the hearts of friends. Watch what your friends know about you and watch what you tell your friends, remember, egoism breeds jealousy and ends a relationship in discord.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Words are the voice of the heart.
— Confucius
He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.
— James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
There is a great deal of difference between a penis and a heart.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
One of the questions that surprised me most was this: “Mommy, if Jesus comes to live inside my heart, will I explode?”“No!” I proclaimed as the children and I headed to the Nile River for a few of them to be baptized that day.Then I thought about the question a bit more.“Yes, if Jesus comes to live in your heart, you will explode.” That is exactly what we should do if Jesus comes to live inside our hearts. We will explode with love, with compassion, with hurt for those who are hurting, and with joy for those who rejoice. We will explode with a desire to be more, to be better, to be close to the One who made us.
— Katie J. Davis, Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption
I lend everyone my ear,But nobody my heart,And I sure would like to change that,But I don't know where to start,I smile more to myself,Than the world will ever see,Because the only time my smile is real,Is in my own company,People don't know how I feel,They never even ask,It seems I have fooled them all,They can't see past my mask,If they were with me late at night,When the world was still asleep,Maybe I'd let them sort,Through the secrets that I keep,But when I wake at 2am,Nobody is ever there,And I learnt that why I hide my heart,Is because no-one really cares.
— Erin Hanson
In this abundant earth no doubtIs little room for things worn out:Disdain them, break them, throw them by!And if before the days grew roughWe once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough,I think, we've far'd, my heart and I.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others—the only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad. I am not sad. I am not sad. Because his life had unlimited potential for happiness, insofar as it was an empty white room. He would fall asleep with his heart at the foot of his bed, like some domesticated animal that was no part of him at all. And each morning he would wake with it again in the cupboard of his rib cage, having become a little heavier, a little weaker, but still pumping. And by the midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else. I am not sad.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
My CountryI don't have any caps left made back homeNor any shoes that trod your roadsI've worn out your last shirt quite long agoIt was of Sile clothNow you only remain in the whiteness of my hairIntact in my heartNow you only remain in the whiteness of my hairIn the lines of my foreheadMy country-Nazim Hikmet
— Fatima Bhutto
Tread lightly on your partner’s heart. It was given to you for safekeeping.
— Alexandra Katehakis, Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
— Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
I think of the quietness of Julian’s voice as he said I love you, the steadiness of his rib cage rising and falling against my back, as we sleep.I love you, Julian. But the words don’t come.
— Lauren Oliver, Requiem
Each guy stamped the passport of my heart. “You’re worthy.” Stamp. “You’re enough.” “You have not failed completely.” Stamp, stamp.
— Kimberly Novosel, Loved
It is only normal that people count losses with their minds, and ignore to count blessings with the graciousness of their hearts.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper
— Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison
The heart of vegetarians is healed sooner than those of flesh-eaters.
— Virchand Gandhi
I broke her heart and misused her trust. I lied and cheated on her. But still she loves me like the old days and patiently waiting for the day that I may feel and understand her true feelings.
— M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
When you are right, everything around you is right, for the beautiful flow that is inside your heart has the capacity to spread its fragrance of oneness-light all around you.
— Sri Chinmoy, Meditation: Man-perfection in God-satisfaction
The books talked about it [the heart] as if it were a sump pump stuck down in the muck and mire of somebody’s backyard. Never in all my scientific reading did I encounter anything that talked about a broken heart. Never did I read anything about what the heart felt, how it felt or why it felt. Feeling and knowing weren’t important, only understanding
— Charles Martin
The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.
— John Calvin, Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life
There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
— Kate DiCamillo
Your heart is able to see things that your eyes aren't able to.
— Kholoud Yasser
Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
— Jimmy Dean
You can't do passion halfway. Living your passion means you're all in. You trust your heart and trust your gut wherever that takes you.
— Joe Plumeri, The Power of Being Yourself: A Game Plan for Success--by Putting Passion into Your Life and Work