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“The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“A light heart lives long.” William Shakespeare, “Love's Labour's Lost” - 1598

“The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart...” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince” - 1943

“How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.” William Butler Yeats, “Ephemera” - 1889

“True beauty after all consists in purity of heart.” Mahatma Gandhi, “The Story of my Experiments with Truth” - 1929

“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break;” William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew” - 1623

“the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.” Helen Keller, “The Story of My Life” - 1903

“Home is where the heart is” Margaret Atwood, “The Blind Assassin” - 2000

“Ah me, how weak a thing the heart of woman is!” William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar” - 1623

“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Masque of the Red Death” - 1842

“My heart suspects more than mine eye can see.” William Shakespeare, “Titus Andronicus” - 1594

“I am not religious, I reckon. But peace is my heart: I know it is.” William Faulkner, “As I Lay Dying” - 1930

“Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” Albert Einstein, “The world as I see it” - 1949

“Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.” Maya Angelou, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” - 1969

“I may be poor at reading and writing, but when it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.” Muhammad Ali, “The Soul of a Butterfly” - 2004

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.” Aristotle, “Politics”

“I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.” L. Frank Baum, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” - 1900

“All the knowledge I possess every one else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “The Sorrows of Young Werther” - 1774

“I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “The Sorrows of Young Werther” - 1774

“Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.” Honoré de Balzac, “Father Goriot” - 1835

“Of happiness the chiefest part is a wise heart: And to defraud the gods in aught with peril's fraught.” Sophocles, “Antigone” - c. 441 BC

“The tears come from the heart and not from the brain.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“Moral wounds have this peculiarity,—they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.” Alexandre Dumas, “The Count of Monte Cristo” - 1845

“There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply.” Neil Gaiman, “American Gods” - 2001

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.” Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” - 1984

“Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.” Rainer Maria Rilke, “Letters to a Young Poet” - 1929

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince” - 1943

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “Crime and Punishment” - 1867

“Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!” William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” - 1623

“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.” Jane Austen, “Sense and Sensibility” - 1811

“Hearts live by being wounded.” Oscar Wilde, “A Woman of No Importance” - 1893

“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart” Jane Austen, “Emma” - 1815

“Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“'What happens when people open their hearts?' . . . 'They get better'” Haruki Murakami, “Norwegian Wood” - 1987

“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby” - 1925

“What does the brain matter . . . compared with the heart?” Virginia Woolf, “Mrs Dalloway” - 1925

“His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Return of the King” - 1955

“lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another” Alexandre Dumas, “The Count of Monte Cristo” - 1845

“The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season! Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason. It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. But I think that the most...” Dr. Seuss, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” - 1957

“Don't give in to your fears . . . If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“You’ve a good heart . . . Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go . . . But mostly, it’s not.” Neil Gaiman, “Neverwhere” - 1996

“A fool with a heart and no brains is just as unhappy as a fool with brains and no heart.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “The Idiot” - 1874

“Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants, willing to be dethroned.” James Joyce, “Ulysses” - 1922

“Every heart has its own skeletons” Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina” - 1877

“Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.” Tennessee Williams, “The Glass Menagerie” - 1944

“once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.” L. Frank Baum, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” - 1900

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