Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rainer Maria Rilke

Now for some heartwork.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens . . . . Superabundant existence wells in my heart.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it will your heart survive.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling... it is not duty and not renunciation, it is not restriction: but in the infinite extent of the universe it is a direction of the heart.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I would like to step out of my heart and go walking beneath the enormous sky.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of thempressed me against his heart: I would be consumedin that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothingbut the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure,and we are so awed because it serenely disdainsto annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.

Rainer Maria Rilke

A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish between its heart and the world's.

Rainer Maria Rilke

May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and may none fail because of slack, uncertain, or fraying strings. May the tears that stream down my face make me more radiant: may my hidden weeping bloom.... How we waste our afflictions!... [T]hey're really our wintering foliage, our dark greens of meaning, one of the seasons of the clandestine year—; not only a season—: they're site, settlement, shelter, soil, abode.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Our heart always transcends us.

Raekwon

The main thing I look at is: Is it from the heart? If I know that you down with me, then we always gonna be down through whatever the thick and thin.

Shay Mitchell

If you can make me laugh, my heart is yours! I think there's nothing more attractive than someone who doesn't take themselves too seriously.

Sheena Iyengar

If you have the feeling of choice, if you feel free, you will be better off. And when I say better off I mean that if people feel they have control over their lives, they call in for fewer sick days from work. They have a lesser probability of having a heart attack or stroke. They live longer. They're happier.

Shane Koyczan

My heart is a protest that I let rally against my ribs.

Shane Filan

I'd like to keep singing - whether that's small or big. To stop singing for a living would break my heart.

Serena Williams

I am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed.

Sean Connery

You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.

Sean Connery

The key to a woman's heart is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time.

Michelle Moran

My love is unique an none can rival her. Just by passing, she has already stolen away my heart.

Michelle Kwan

Skating is in my heart, not my head

Michelle Obama

And what has been just completely heart warming is to see that people are really hungry for something different.

Michelle Obama

Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it's still an illness, and there should be no distinction.

Michael Vick

It was hard to get away from all of the people that I thought had my best interest at heart, and they really didn't.

Michael Phelps

The problem with heart disease is the first symptom is often fatal.

Michael Phelps

I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decision, not mine. I'm going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart.

Sidney Lanier

Let my name perish, -- the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music, and beauty dieth not, and the heart that needs it will find it.

Sidney Lanier

O Trade, O Trade! Would thou wert dead!The time needs heart - 'tis tired of head.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

But what is the heart, madame? It's worth less than people think. it's quite accommodating, it accepts anything. You give it whatever you have, it's not very particular. But the body... Ha! That's something else again! It has a cultivated taste, as they say, it knows what it wants. A heart doesn't choose, and one always ends up by loving.

Sienna Miller

People on the edge of love go with their heart and not their head.

Sienna Miller

When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.

Shonda Rhimes

You never know the biggest day of your life is your biggest day, not until it’s happening. You don’t recognize the biggest day of your life, not until you’re right in the middle of it. The day you commit to something or someone. The day you get your heart broken. The day you meet your soul mate. The day you realize there’s not enough time because you wanna live forever. Those are the biggest days. The perfect days.