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The role of Cherishing in Bereavement - I think that the key to healthy grieving is to cherish those who have passed on, so that you celebrate their lives and the times you did have together with thankfulness, instead of trying to cling on and wish that things were different. I believe that you should let them go in peace with love, not try to hang on to their spirits, just hold the precious moments gently in your heart.
— Jay Woodman
Her soul was soothed by his presence, Her mind was soothed by his beliefsHer heart was soothed by his love And for the first time, she could see a future with someone who grabbed her by the hand and took her courageous being away from all that had her questioning life.
— Nikki Rowe
Remember: whatever is burrowed deep in one hungry soul is bound to be tethered to the hearts of many, many more.
— Hannah Brencher, If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore.
— Dean Koontz, Forever Odd
Quite often it's not about what is said, but what isn't. And even when it's spoken, read between the lines. Listening with the heart is just as important as hearing with the mind.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
She never had much in this life, but with the simplest things, she made her corner of the world as beautiful as any king's palace. We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
The closest thing to Heaven, is having a peaceful mind, and a beautiful, pure heart.
— Anthony Liccione
While learning others, respect demands that one never takes issue with another's freedom to choose their 'get down' - their way of living... and don't be mad. But carefully listen, observe, and compare mental notes before you open your heart's desire -- to make a clear determination what's in your best interest. If you already know how the story ends, and it doesn't fit you, keep [the] proper distance in perspective, in any form(s) of relationship, for the love of self. It may be disappointing, but you'll eventually discover the right one deserving of your full attention. Or, you may be surprised by their sudden awakening to your worthiness. Walk slowly, especially, when it comes to matters of the heart.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
You can learn things from a heart so bleedingWhen love bargains with deceitful pleading Hours soar from dawn to dawn splitting your time Don’t hear melody from a soundless chime
— Munia Khan
Pray GOD by HEART, Not by HABIT.
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
To enjoy a peaceful & Beautiful Life We should open our 'EYE' and Close our 'I
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
We must live with our hearts in our hands - like Mary.We must hold the blood-red heart and no be disappointedwhen others look away.
— Kelli Russell Agodon, Hourglass Museum
This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose
— Dean Koontz, Forever Odd
When the anesthesia of love wears off,you suffer the pain of consequence.
— Amy Tan, Saving Fish from Drowning
One day, I decided I was going to write books forever.
— Carla H. Krueger
Crying is NOT a weakness. Cry as much as you have to. Don’t be afraid or ashamed to let your tears flow. Crying is a natural part of life. We all have feelings, and sometimes crying is all that we can do. Crying can help relieve the pain, hurt, disappointments, and all of the other things that life can throw our way. Know that it’s okay, and know that you’re going to be okay as well. Wishing You: Peace of mind, Comfort, Happiness, Joy within and LOVE.
— Stephanie Lahart
Prayer is a heart exercise. It’s an act of communicating with God about what’s most important and pressing in your life.
— Jim George
Love is never blind; it sees with ucute clarity. A closed mind, wounded heart, and a bitter disposition surely cannot perceive love's myriad ways of communicating.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
I don’t care what people think. I don’t care how many dislikes I get on Youtube. I don’t care how many people compare to every single female artist in the industry, because we’re both white and sing. I do this because I love it, and I do it because this is what I feel like I was born to do, I feel like I was born to write music to heal the world.
— Jessie J.
my dear,we are all made of water. it's okay to rage. sometimes it's okay to rest. to recede.
— Sanober  Khan, A Thousand Flamingos
you are ever the only onei want to giveall the peachesin my heart tothe only one by whomi want them bruised.
— Sanober  Khan
His mind was logical, but his traitorous heart stuttered from beat to beat.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
When we follow our hearts, we follow the path of lessons we were meant to take and gain knowledge from. Sometimes the heart conquers over reason, and this may lead us to making serious mistakes, but these are mistakes written for us to grow. This is the real reason you hear ‘FOLLOW YOUR HEART’. And the real reason you hear, ‘FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS’ is because our dreams expose us to our true multidimensional realities outside of this delusional realm we call reality. Our true reality can be found in our dreams, where we are our true multidimensional selves.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Be brave enough to never yearnFor that you cannot hold closeIn your heart forever.Tread lightly, cherish compassionAnd live in the moment without fear.
— Scott Hastie
What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve about.
— James Hadley Chase
Have and show motivation to do and learn. That's the key for a good career. Everything else is an extrapolation of that.
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
People may not like you, but that's cool because your heart doesn't beat from their liking. You can't live to please everyone, you're not a puppet
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
Would you dare to reach inside the vault of a feral heart?Glare into the keyhole, eyes bound with intrigue...is it real what we perceive? or does the absent colour leave you lost or decieved?
— L V HALL
A stream of primal voicesWhispering in the breeze of your heartTo urge you on.
— Scott Hastie
If the tree doesn't hug you back, it's not a problem with the tree, it's a problem with your heart.
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
A sober mind, an unemotional heart and a positive attitude are key for success.
— Pinkie Numa
Death is deceitful, pretending that peace is on the horizon. The truth is that chaos is left in its wake, claiming the souls of those stranded in life. Death is the enemy of love in its purest form. It's the one thing that can tear our souls out and rip our hearts to pieces. The miraculous part of this process is that all it needs to do is extinguish a single, solitary breath. That's all it takes to steal the future of someone; someone who deserves to live more than all the others. If only I could capture that breath before it was taken to replace it with my own.
— J.D. Stroube, Caged in Spirit
When does God turn a want into a need? When you feel the same way almost every day. Your thoughts can be distracted for a short period of time, but your mind will always take you back to the one place that feels like home.
— Shannon L. Alder
Magic?" What did magic have to do with breaking into someone's store and stealing their stuff?"Don't you get it?" Peter said. "You're free now. You don't have to live by their rules anymore." Peter pointed into the inky blackness of the basement. "The darkness is calling. A little danger, a little risk. Feel your heart race, listen to it. That's the sound of being alive. It's your time, Nick. Your one chance to have fun before it's all stolen by them, the adults, with their cruelty and endless rules, their can't-do-this, and can't-do-that's, their have-tos, and better-dos, their little boxes and cages all designed to break your spirit, to kill your magic.
— Brom
I think the biggest achievement of my life is that I followed my heart when I knew what it wanted, and had faith in destiny when I didn't know what it held.
— Mansi Laus Deo
One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away!
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Take off my clothes and there becomes a man. Take off my skin and there becomes my bones. Break all my bones and there becomes my heart. Smash my heart and there becomes my soul. And that you cannot take.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
To have been where you have beenAnd to still have joy,Dazzling in your heart,Now there’s a thing to make the whole world smile.
— Scott Hastie
Sometimes a loved one might not 'spit' the message in the most tender or poetic fashion that suits you, but don't allow a rugged style to blind you from a loving intent. It's the spirit of the message one must receive beyond [the] perception of one's senses; be mindful of hearing with the heart.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Bettering the lives of others is the role of a person with a servant’s heart.
— Jim George, A Man After God's Own Heart
Never be afraid to cry. Sometimes, nothing can cleanse the heart more than a few wet tears.
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
The sacred bequestOf times long spent with your heartThat saturate and illuminate you nowSo piercingly…
— Scott Hastie
Doing things God’s way is always a matter of the heart.
— Elizabeth George
Spirituality can exists only in a pure heart.
— Sangita Pareek
Every heart needs a cutting part sharper than a blade to stab agony
— Munia Khan
If you Fear, your Heart will decay
— L V HALL
You can't have a women's body without having her heart, mind and soul if only momentarily.
— Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel
The unlikely group that resulted from the union of five diverse characters in their late twenties operated with surprising harmony. This cohesiveness could be attributed to two factors: 1) everyone’s issues and embarrassing pasts were plainly disclosed prior to the gang’s formation and 2) the clan had been expressly conceived as a male support group.
— Zack Love, Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC
Still not sure about how easily he could be integrated into their posse, Trevor smiled in delighted relief at how tolerantly two of his close friends had received his new identity.
— Zack Love
Tear your heart out of your chest. And hand it to God. There is no other healing. I swear, there is no other healing.
— Yasmin Mogahed
The wound made by hurting with fire will heal but the wound created by harsh words uttered using out tongue leaves an indelible scar.
— Thiruvalluvar, Thirukkural
They don’t know I only speak in runaway train stationsand everybody is always a few minutes too late to the platform.No one has ever gotten the chance to get too closebecause it is never romantic to fuck the girl who makes love to her own sadness every single night.
— Katelin Wagner
They can stop a river by building a dam, but I will be damned if they can stop my river of blood flowing through my veins and heart.
— Anthony Liccione
Theres no competition in DESTINY. Run your own RACE and wish others WELL!!!
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
Be content to love, to dazzle in the light,If only for moments…And then be gone,With gladness in your heart,Before the creeping shadowsClaim too much your sadness at leaving.
— Scott Hastie
my heart no longer beats but is a tugging muscle,
— Franz Kafka
You will find what you are looking for when you realize God has placed those longings in your heart as a divine desire
—  your hunger is a gift from God to draw you to Him. It's a holy want with a holy fulfillment. Everything you really need and want is offered by and found in Him.
Sanity is to the mind, insanity is for the heart,Docility is to the mind, wildness is to the heart,Tamable is the mind, Untamable is the heart,Freedom is to the mind, cages are for the heart.
— Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel
The only enemy which stands between the talent you posses and success you achieve is known as "EGO" in our Society
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
The most important principle for self discovery and to taste success is rather than changing other's attitude changes your own. And always remember same sun which melts the butter also hardens the clay
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
I met a man; broken as can be, A smile upon his face; no shoes upon his feet,He said one thing " young one , you listen clear"The choices you make now; will always reappear,Live to your heart but do wrong to none,Because when your old like me; you'll remember all you have done.
— Nikki Rowe
Guard your heart and mind against double-minded pretentious beings. Do not allow infiltration beyond the surface. If their influence travels on the inside, they become like an incurable disease.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
The only way to be content in life is to make sure your NEED don't become GREED.
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
Begin each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.
— Roy  Bennett
I ache not from need -but from my heart's gluttony of you.
— Muse
When the heart stops, you die. Love is everywhere that life is, and if there is no love for life, you die. Giving up on love is the same thing as giving up on life itself.
— David Levithan, Marly's Ghost
You cannot taste a song but you can feel the tune relishing your heart where strings of music belong.
— Munia Khan
Step back in perspective, open your heart and welcome transition into a new phase of life.
— Linda Rawson
Open the doors of your heart and they will come…And for every cruel arrow,Sweet caresses of delirium alsoTo nourish your soul.
— Scott Hastie
Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eye.
— Roy  Bennett
Pursue what catches your heart rather than what catches your eye.
— Roy  Bennett
Could he hear my heart pounding?
— Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory
When we observe trials and tribulations in our world, there's even more reason to lighten the heavy load. Sometimes life gets tough and it's disheartening. Never mind happiness; what we genuinely need is joy! God didn't intend for us to be sad or serious all of the time. His word in Proverbs 17:22 (ESV) says, “A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
— Dana Arcuri, Harvest of Hope: Living Victoriously Through Adversity: A 50-Day Devotional
Pursue what catches your heart rather than what catches your eyes.
— Roy  Bennett
What is it that you long for best, that clenches teeth and claws over the ventricles of your heart?
— Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Scale-Bright
When people want to win they will go to desperate extremes. However, anyone that has already won in life has come to the conclusion that there is no game. There is nothing but learning in this life and it is the only thing we take with us to the grave—knowledge. If you only understood that concept then your heart wouldn’t break so bad. Jealousy or revenge wouldn’t be your ambition. Stepping on others to raise yourself up wouldn’t be a goal. Competition would be left on the playing field, and your freedom from what other people think about you would light the pathway out of hell.
— Shannon L. Alder
A man that knows your worth doesn't need to be told how to treat you. That's a given! You won't have to question his feelings, his motives, nor his intentions. How will I know? You ask. See, he will freely show you how he feels and prove it consistently. If you're settling for anything less than what you deserve. Then, maybe you don't even know your worth.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
I have worn my heart on my sleeve because it is too painful to carry it inside my chest.When I carry it on my sleeve, it has the freedom to exist, to beat in rhythm with the Universe.I feel like I'm more alive and yes, there are those who out of curiosity will say or do things that can cause its delicate existence to feel pain and sorrow.I would rather deal with that, than to put it back in its little cage where it knows nothing else but the rhythm of my body and my Ego.My heart was never meant to be part of my Ego.My heart was meant to experience the Soul.
— C.C. Campbell, The Stolen Light of Women: A Quest for Spiritual Truth Beyond Religion
No body is a looser either he is a Winner or a Learner
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
Being Wise & Being Smart are two different things anyone can be smart but those who master the art of knowing what to overlook in this journey called life deserves to be called Wise
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
The only goal in life is to be happy, genuinely, intensely and consistently , regardless of what it looks like to others.
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
But though you’d never starve your body to wasting and still expect to go on, you starve your heart, yet act as though you can still draw on it forever without the debt ever coming due. If you fall—when you fall, you’re going to fall like a starving man.
— Lois McMaster Bujold, Beguilement
Find answers in your weakness and surprise in your strength and always remember the golden rule every failure has HOPES
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
In love, nothing exists between heart and heart.Speech is born out of longing,True description from the real taste.The one who tastes, knows;the one who explains, lies.How can you describe the true form of SomethingIn whose presence you are blotted out?And in whose being you still exist?And who lives as a sign for your journey?
— Rabia Al-Adawiyya
The only principle of Success in Life :"You must be present to win.
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
Always being truthful gives you a certain kind of freedom. It springs forth like a fountain splashing throughout your body until it floods your soul. To be honest and to be trustworthy are great attributes. Ah, the power, Ah, the freedom
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
It’s all about “Priorities” There's No Such Thing as "Busy
— Abhysheq Shukla
Don’t be afraid of failures it takes courage to try new things & only those who try create History.
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
—all I can say of the matter, is—That he has either a pumkin for his head—or a pippin for his heart,—and whenever he is dissected 'twill be found so.
— Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
He wondered what his heart would look like if he could pluck it from his chest and inspect it.
— David Estes, Flip
My heart is kerosene, my mind a match. I’m seconds away from igniting.
— Sarah Noffke, Revived
The authorities don't grant concessions out of the kindness of their hearts; they simply concede the reality of what their subjects are strong enough to compel from them. If you want political leverage, don't beg for it, don't seek it through their channels - take power outside them.
— CrimethInc., Contradictionary
Moral obligations verses Legal obligations. Legally, you must abide by the laws of the land or face the consequences of being fined, imprisoned or both. Moral obligations tend to lean more towards a spiritual nature of a person. Some people perform immoral acts because legally there are no consequences. Morals birth in the heart of the individual. Moral characteristics are developed at an early age and continue into adulthood. It's a disgrace to neglect having good moral character.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
(Watching her) was a little like watching water lilies; rather more like smelling a dinner he was not allowed to eat. Was it possible to be starved for so long as to forget the taste of food, for the pangs of hunger to burn out like ash? It seemed so. But both the pleasure and the pain were his heart’s secret, here. He was put in mind, suddenly, of the soil at the edge of a recovering blight; the weedy bedraggled look of it, unlovely yet hopeful. Blight was a numb gray thing, without sensation. Did the return of green life hurt? Odd thought.
— Lois McMaster Bujold, Beguilement
A man cannot own more than his heart can love.
— Gabriele Corno
She had been lost on her own and I had been lost on my own, so it was natural that once we found each other we wanted to keep being unlost with each other. But that, at heart, had made us exist.
— David Levithan, Marly's Ghost
The more we listen to our hearts, the better our hearts' message comes through loud and clear and the more likely we are to be able to follow what our heart is telling us.
— Joe Plumeri, The Power of Being Yourself: A Game Plan for Success--by Putting Passion into Your Life and Work
Money is an inanimate object. It can do good works or bad works depending on the hands that wield it, and the hearts governing those hands.
— Donald L. Hicks, The Divinity Factor
When we move in a direction that touches our heart, we add to the momentum of deeper purpose that makes us feel more alive.
— Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone
Meaningful prayer is a matter of the heart, not the eloquence of the words.
— Jim George
I shall listen to my heart and it shall save me. I shall listen to my heart and I’ll be free.
— Barry  Webster, The Lava in My Bones
One of the only things more powerful than the human heart is the that it takes to heal one that has been broken
— Tommy Cotton
God’s power and love don’t fade, nor does His presence, but we cannot tap into it as fully when we don’t have praise and worship toward Him in our heart
— Stormie Omartian, Choose Love: The Three Simple Choices That Will Alter the Course of Your Life
Loving her has become a part of my religion, a gentle mantra with every beating of my heart. I cannot imagine its Ragnarok without wilting.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
Live a life that leaves a memory, nobody can steal.
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
The only unreachable dream is the one you don’t reach for.
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
The richest people in the world build networks and invest in people
—  everyone else looks for work and invests in survival.
The thing about our choices is that after we have made them, they turn around and make us.
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
True Relations never break and relation which breaks were never true
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
Living your life is a task so difficult it has never been attempted before.
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
What seems like the right thing to do could also be the hardest thing you have ever done in your life
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
Always follow your dreams with confidence and conviction, don’t fall for the trap of dream killers
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
Life is too short to be anything but happy. So kiss slowly. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Take chances and never have regrets. Forget the past but remember what it taught you.
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
Time change - Moments don't.
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
Life is a do-it-yourself project.
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
THE Biggest enemy of Truth is known as Facts in our Society
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
A wise man is someone who knows how to convert obstacles into resources.
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
For all those who say its a Man world. Respect Women Its their World we are just guest here
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
MISUNDERSTANDING" arises only when you see the things with Closed Eyes
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
The only difference between success and failure is Lack of Vision
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
Life is same for everyone. The difference is only that some are living by heart and some for only sake of living
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
Two powerful factors which creates difference between destroying your relationship and deepening it are EGO and Attitude
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
TAKE Risk because you never know how absolutely perfect something could turn out to be..
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
As long as we have MEMORIES, yesterday REMAINS and as long as we have HOPE, tomorrow AWAITS...
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
YOU have to design your own Price tag for the world.
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
Only Boiled Seeds are afraid of failure.
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
No matter what goals you set to accomplish always remember there is a thing known as Life which you should never forget to live and enjoy
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
Don’t be afraid of failures it takes courage to try new things & only those who try create miracles.
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
Today, is the beginning of your futureso be as creative as your heart desires in designing your life map.
— Leta B., Your Steady Soul: May you transform your pain, anger, and hurt into wisdom, kindness, and love.
Elegance; it lacks the intellect -he is not a dancer who dances to the beat of love - on the other hand, the heart, can not solve mathematical problems.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Choose wisely From those who start A fire in your heart. Some may burn you to shreds,While you were looking for warmth.
— Saiber, Stardust and Sheets
And I was your moon because I shined brighter than any other star in your universe and you were my darkness. Without you I could not see the depth of my light and with you I could set the night a glow. So we needed one another—the dark and the light. Your fear. My courage. Connected, but separated. Different, but the same. A synergy that made no sense, but every bit of sense. We were neither a beginning, nor an end. We were somewhere in between our madness at sunset and the reality we awakened to with each sunrise. We were the ghosts of timing and fate. We were neither fantasy, nor reality--- we were a purpose somewhere in between.
— Shannon L. Alder
Lingering, bottled-up anger never reveals the 'true colors' of an individual. It, on the contrary, becomes all mixed up, rotten, confused, forms a highly combustible, chemical compound then explodes as something foreign, something very different than one's natural self.
— Criss Jami, Healology
You're beautiful to me, Jamie,” I said softly, at last. “So beautiful, you break my heart.
— Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross
And I sort of felt her...you know." Alan made an exaggerated shape of a heart. "You touched her heart?" Mike queried. "No! Her bum. It's sort of, you know, heart shaped. Big heart."He flexed his fingers, remembering the feel of it. "Soft.
— Angela Verdenius, The Virgin Sex Queen
My heart had a crush on him from the moment we met, but it was faint, and the rest of me stubbornly refused to play along.
— Jennifer     Harrison, Perverse Wonderland
The heart beneath the breastbone pumping. The blood on its appointed rounds. Life in small places, narrow crannies. In the leaves, the toad's pulse. The delicate cellular warfare in a waterdrop. A dextrocardiac, said the smiling doctor. Your heart's in the right place. Weathershrunk and loveless. The skin drawn and split like an overripe fruit.
— Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
A beautiful woman should always have at the back of her mind that her ravishing appearance is only an ephemeral quality. When she wakes up in the morning, looks into the mirror, and notices that something is fading away, she knows that the time is ripe for marriage. She should be careful of who she takes into her life because the union is gonna be everlasting.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Love is about as strong, as two people want to make it.
— Anthony Liccione
The only way I’d ever die of a broken heart, is if I slammed into something really hard
— Josh Stern, And That's Why I'm Single: What Good Is Having A Lucky Horseshoe Up Your Butt When The Horse Is Still Attached?
IF you want to be a winner than follow one simple rule and feed it in your mind. Take each task and work as " Do it yourself project.
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
Anyone who offers their heart on a silver platter deserves what they get.
— Holly Black
Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don't allow you to live and Oxygen don't let you die.
— Abhysheq Shukla, KISS Life  "Life is what you make it"
The soul, Daffy says, is not necessarily where the heart is.
— Alan Bradley, As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
Your eyes need to be opened wider than your heart, when love is blinder than your eyes.
— Munia Khan
At last, you will not be remembered for roaming the earth as a non-entity, but by every word, and every miracle, and every love, and every seed that ever came from the innermost part of your heart.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
But these first needs of the heart are so imperious, these outpourings of amorous melancholy in young people are at once so sweet and so bitter, that they have often all the real marks of the passion.
— Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After
One day, your beauty will manifest in someone's eye.
— Anthony Liccione
the heart knows nothing except its own mind
— David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility
Lord, help me to have Your love and forgiveness in my heart. Enable me to live in peace, tranquility, simplicity, and good health. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
— Stormie Omartian, Prayers for Emotional Wholeness: 365 Prayers for Living in Freedom
Treat your heart like a turnstile. Open it to only those who got valid tickets.
— Stef Harder
Alas, the heart is not a metaphor, or at least not always a metaphor.
— Elizabeth Hardwick, Sleepless Nights
Faded is my heart.... Faded is my dream....Faded they may seem.... Never I scream!
— Larissa Qat
But what I knew in my head stayed up there, swirling about the other ten zillion things I had retained. That knowledge informed my actions, what I did and how I did it.What Emma knew filtered from her head down into her heart and informed who she was—what I have since come to call the Infinite Migration. If my wonderings about life were scientific, bent toward examination and physical discovery, Emma’s all leaned toward matters of the heart. While I could understand and explain the physics behind a rainbow, Emma saw the colors. When it came to life, I saw each piece and how they all fit together, and Emma saw the image on the face of the puzzle. And every now and then, she’d walk me through the door into her world and show it to me.
— Charles Martin, When Crickets Cry
Tears is the voice of heart in pain, in absence of feelings one don't care what you share.
— Kishore Bansal
Left to itself, a heart will run riot with sin. But if a heart responds to the ministry of the Word, there can be fruit and beauty.
— Warren W. Wiersbe
Here in your heart, deep in your soul, resides the universe’s collective wisdom, waiting for expression through your life’s experience.
— Robbie Vorhaus, One Less. One More.
I learned to live half alive without you
— Kat Unda
To know oneself and one’s end or goal in life is true wisdom—knowledge of the heart more than the head.
— James Kubicki, A Heart on Fire: Rediscovering Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
People think a relationship is give & take, but i see it as give & give, & there is no greater gift than the love & compassion within your heart.
— Mark Hewer
She remembered how her heart, so tight, like a scroll, had opened when Arin kissed her. It had unfurled. If her heart were truly a scroll, she could burn it. It would become a tunnel of flame, a handful of ash. The secrets she had written inside herself would be gone. No one would know
— Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse
The worst grudge is being told that you are forgiven, yet your sins are still glowing in their hearts like a burning coal.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
She was now drowning in that pool of desires without having any idea about the depth of it.
— Viraj J. Mahajan, Derivation of Life
I tried to gather all the pieces… I picked each one and fixed them so perfectly. No one could say that I was broken once, unless they see my hands, lacerated by the splinters of my heart.
— Jasmine Kiyani
You cannot judge a man by his smile, but you can judge a man by his heart. The smallest actions reveal the most about a heart's true color, so pay attention to them. Actions are the true words of the heart.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
When you touch a man’s body, he will enjoy the moment; when you touch a man’s heart, he will remember it forever.
— Dixie Waters
She was few inches taller than him and when for the first time her promising eyes met with his, he knew it would be more than friendship. He was too young to name that feeling then. But love...above all relationships knows no age.
— Viraj J. Mahajan, Derivation of Life
If you walk and talk with God, you will never miss the direction to your divine future. Be bold and offer your heart to be led by God.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
These stories always take us to some far away places which we can never visit in real life.
— Viraj J. Mahajan, Derivation of Life
There are so many moments in our life which we cannot describe with mere words. There are not enough adjectives to justify the emotions behind such moments. Those moments are your life- they define who you truly are
— Viraj J. Mahajan, Derivation of Life
Beauty of your love-filled smile created a mark on the stone wall of my heart, I can erase it never.
— Debasish Mridha
It is nice to touch, it is nice to be touched, but it is so much nicer to touch someone's heart.
— Dixie Waters
You can leave your marks on things, but the most lasting marks are written in the heart.
— Dixie Waters
The papers say we're married, but it's the heart that writes the love story.
— Anthony Liccione
charity Purify your heart and makes you lion.
— Kishore Bansal
My first kiss I regret. My first date I regret. But I do not regret the choice to say I love you for the first time. Even though that was the melodramatic story. Even though that one ended badly. I don’t regret it. Because that time ... that night, I was myself. I found my feelings and honored them. I loved myself enough to trust what I felt and say what I needed to say. And I chose to be myself. I was present as I delivered my awkward speech and felt each pound of my beating heart. I had never been more of myself than in that moment.
— Stephen Lovegrove, How to Find Yourself, Love Yourself, & Be Yourself: The Secret Instruction Manual for Being Human
In the heart and in the soul, evil takes its wicked toll. When moonlight shines like flowing blood, over the earth, the Daimons will flood
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, No Mercy
Where I am always thou art. Thy image lives within my heart
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Bad Moon Rising
His mindIt says survival of the fittest butHis soulRevival of the idiotsSo good riddance, dancing
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
God gave men a heart but he gave certain hearts to other men.
— Robert Kodingo
I tried to gather all the pieces… I picked each one and fixed them so perfectly. No one could say that I was broken once but they saw my hands, lacerated by the splinters of my heart…
— Jasmine Kiyani
In fact, you"-he pointed his fork at me-"look like a fairy tale.
— Isabel Gillies
Broken hearts don't need medical treatment, they need a lover to mend them.
— Dixie Waters
The way to a woman's heart might best be reached via a short cut.
— Dixie Waters
Know that your heart can be deployed to wherever the Lord sends you in prayer
— Stormie Omartian, Prayer Warrior Prayer and Study Guide: The Power of Praying Your Way to Victory
When love breaks your heart, you need to remember, even a broken heart still has a beat.
— Dixie Waters
When you pour out words from your heart to your lover, make sure they aren't on a paper vessel and lost to the wind.
— Dixie Waters
As a rule, I had murder in my mind. That day, I had it in my heart.
— Jane Casey
I feel jealous, I want to be something your mind consumes the most.
— Azza Nazh
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
— Dr. Seuss
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.
— J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves through according to their need.First is the door of sleep. Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain by stepping through the first door.Second is the door of forgetting. Some wounds are too deep to heal, or too deep to heal quickly. In addition, many memories are simply painful, and there is no healing to be done. The saying 'time heals all wounds' is false. Time heals most wounds. The rest are hidden behind this door.Third is the door of madness. There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind. Last is the door of death. The final resort. Nothing can hurt us after we are dead, or so we have been told.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth. 
— George R.R. Martin
She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.
— Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy.
— Marilyn Monroe
Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.
— J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.
— Marilyn Monroe
Peeta opens his mouth for the first bite without hesitation. He swallows, then frowns slightly. "They're very sweet.""Yes they're sugar berries. My mother makes jam from them. Haven't you've ever had them before?" I say, poking the next spoonful in his mouth."No," he says, almost puzzled. "But they taste familiar. Sugar berries?""Well, you can't get them in the market much, they only grow wild," I say. Another mouthful goes down. Just one more to go."They're sweet as syrup," he says, taking the last spoonful. "Syrup." His eyes widen as he realizes the truth. I clamp my hand over his mouth and nose hard, forcing him to swallow instead of spit. He tries to make himself vomit the stuff up, but it's too late, he's already losing consciousness. Even as he fades away, I can see in his eyes what I've done is unforgiveable.I sit back on my heels and look at him with a mixture of sadness and satisfaction. A stray berry stains his chin and I wipe it away. "Who can't lie, Peeta?" I say, even though he can't hear me.
— Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.
— Libba Bray, Rebel Angels
That's you," Wrath said. You shall be called the Black Dagger warrior Dhestroyer, descended of Wrath son of Wrath.""But you'll always be Butch to us," Rhage cut in. "As well as hard-ass. Smart-ass. Royal pain in the ass. You know, whatever the situation calls for. I think as long as there's an ASS in there, it'll be accurate.""How about bASStard?" Z suggested."Nice. I feel that.
— J.R. Ward, Lover Revealed
Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?
— Ally Condie, Matched
ARE YOU CRAZY?" I ASKED. He gave me the same wordless look he always did when I asked that question.
— Richelle Mead
For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.
— Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races
She asked where he lived. Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.
— J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Erol and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Into the sky to win or die.
— Christopher Paolini, Eragon
I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.
— Charles de Lint, The Blue Girl
Then, in the spirit of benevolence, "Your face is well balanced." She slapped him encouragingly on the back, "You have very long eyelashes. Like a cow.
— C.S. Pacat, Captive Prince: Volume Two
What we think to be our greatest weakness can sometimes be our biggest strength.
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin
There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.
— Neil Gaiman, Stardust
There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.
— George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.
— J.M. Barrie
Everybody must have a fantasy.
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
You belong to all of us, and we belong to you.
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin
There is no such thing as coincidence in this world. The only thing is hitsuzen.Hitsuzen...A naturally fore-ordained event. A state in which all other outcomes are impossible.
— CLAMP, xxxHolic, Vol. 1
We rode on the winds of the rising storm,We ran to the sounds of the thunder.We danced among the lightning bolts,and tore the world asunder.
— Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn
I've been down by the stream collecting berries. Would you care for some?"I would, actually, but I don't want to relent too soon. I do walk over and look at them. I've never seen this type before. No, I have. But not in the arena. These aren't Rue's berries, although they resemble them. Nor do they match any I learned about in training. I lean down and scoop up a few, rolling them between my fingers.My father's voice comes back to me. "Not these, Katniss. Never these. They're nightlock. You'll be dead before they reach your stomach."Just then the cannon fires. I whip around, expecting Peeta to collapseto the ground, but he only raises his eyebrows. The hoovercraft appears a hundred metres or so away.What's left of Foxface's emaciated body is lifted into the air.
— Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.
— Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the time to reach her hand through the mesh and say my name before the spear enters her body.
— Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Who would you be but who you are?
— Terry Brooks, The Black Unicorn
Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.
— Jane Yolen, The Books of Great Alta
...Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.
— Terry Goodkind, Soul of the Fire
One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flash of light. No explosion.
— Michael  Grant, Gone
If you are a dreamer, come in,If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer...If you're a pretender come sit by my fireFor we have some flax-golden tales to spin.Come in!Come in!
— Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends
Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.
— John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
At Tara in this fateful hour,I place all Heaven with its power,And the sun with its brightness,And the snow with its whiteness,And the fire with all the strength it hath,And the lightning with its rapid wrath,And the winds with their swiftness along their path,And the sea with its deepness,And the rocks with their steepness,And the earth with its starkness:All these I place,By God's almighty help and graceBetween myself and the powers of darkness!
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Shall we dance,friend of my heart?"We shall, little one.
— Christopher Paolini, Eldest
All that he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had been his. That was all he had, to keep out the loneliness.
— Juliet Marillier, Daughter of the Forest
You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded. "Something beautiful and full of monsters."“Beautiful and full of monsters?"“All the best stories are.
— Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.
— Tim Burton, Alice in Wonderland: Based on the Motion Picture Directed by Tim Burton
Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won
— William Shakespeare, Macbeth
The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call them 'magic' or 'dragons' or 'faeries' and get to know them better. But then I write the stuff. Obviously I'm prejudiced.
— Robin McKinley