Heart

"Since the heart is an accumulator and transmuter of various energies, there must be more favorable conditions for arousing and attracting these energies. The most fundamental condition is work, mental as well as physical. In the motion of work, energies are gathered from space; but one must understand work as a natural process that enriches life. Thus, every kind of work is a blessing, while the vagaries of inaction are extremely harmful in a cosmic sense."

"A person can think with the heart or think with the brain. There was perhaps a time when people forgot about the work of the heart, but now is the era of the heart, and we must focus our efforts in that direction. Thus, without freeing the brain of its work, we are ready to recognize the heart as a motive power. People have thought up a thousand ways to place limitations on the heart. The works of the heart are understood in a narrow sense, and not even always in a pure sense. We must bring the entire world into the sphere of the heart, because the heart is the microcosm of everything that exists. A person who is not inspired by the great concept of the heart will end up belittling his own significance. We tell people to give up getting irritated, but only greatness of heart will save a person from the poison of irritability. We speak about the ability to embrace, but where is there an all-embracing ocean outside of the heart? We remind people about the distant worlds, but it is the heart, not the brain, that can remember about Infinity. So let us not belittle the organ that has been bestowed upon us to be a receptacle of Grace."

"I have a heart with room for every joy."

"My favoured temple is an humble heart."

"All the same," said the Scarecrow, "I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one."

"I shall take the heart," returned the Tin Woodman; "for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world."

"HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentiments -- a very pretty fancy which, however, is nothing but a survival of a once universal belief. It is now known that the sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid. The exact process by which a beefsteak becomes a feeling -- tender or not, according to the age of the animal from which it was cut; the successive stages of elaboration through which a caviar sandwich is transmuted to a quaint fancy and reappears as a pungent epigram; the marvelous functional methods of converting a hard-boiled egg into religious contrition, or a cream-puff into a sigh of sensibility -- these things have been patiently ascertained by M. Pasteur, and by him expounded with convincing lucidity."

"When your heart is a party, solitude becomes crowded with memories."

"My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer."

"A warrior can change his metal, but not his heart."

"Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh, give me back my heart!"

"His heart was one of those which most enamour us, Wax to receive, and marble to retain."

"Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart."

"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge."

"mi corazón, lugar de las hogueras"

"Alma de esparto y corazon de encina."

"My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain."

"No command of art, No toil, can help you hear; Earth's minstrelsy falls clear But on the listening heart."

"Some hearts are hidden, some have not a heart."

"There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, "…in the human heart that had better not be wibrated."

"I want to see what is there in the heart! Natural curiosity!"

"The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die."

"I (God) will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh."

"You will always hold a special place in the organ that pumps my blood."

"The heart has been ignored in anthropology, and the great philosophical tradition finds it a foreign notion, preferring other concepts such as reason, will or freedom."

"Devotion to the heart of Christ is not the veneration of a single organ apart from the Person of Jesus. What we contemplate and adore is the whole Jesus Christ, the Son of God made man, represented by an image that accentuates his heart."

"When we want to say something deeply personal, we often say that we are speaking “from the heart"."

"A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next to escape the censures of the world: if the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected."

"Hearts Weak God is witness that we tried repeatedly to plant love and friendship in their hearts then we discovered that their soil is salty and not suitable for agriculture We tried to water that soil with patience to nourish it with hope to give it the purity it needs to grow true feelings but we tried in vain There are souls that have brought back drought hearts that have been closed by the echo that does not respond to goodness No matter how much you lavish on her we understand in the end that giving must have its place and that love is only planted in hearts that appreciate its value As for those who live in a barren land who only learn to take without giving they do not deserve your time or effort Do not waste your time or effort on those who do not want to change Plant in fertile soil in hearts that bear fruit because you deserve to see the fruits of your giving forget and flourish.~~ May 4, 2025"