Famous Quotes & Sayings

Storm Jameson

... the stomach is near the heart and one appetite pricks on another.

Stewart O'Nan

To be lost and forgotten-to be abandoned-is a shared and terrible fear, just as our fondest hope, as we grow older, is that we might leave some parts of us behind in the hearts of those we love and in that way live on.

Stevie Smith

Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. Poor chap, he always loved larking And now he's dead It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way, They said. Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.

Stevie Smith

I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.

Sonia Johnson

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

Solon

Watch well each separate citizen, Lest having in his heart of hearts A secret spear, one still may come Saluting you with cheerful face, And utter with a double tongue The feigned good wishes of his wary mind.

Sonia Choquette

I pray that my heart can continue to open and expand so I can fully receive love and not waste a drop of it!

Sonia Choquette

Your heart pilots you to a far better life than you could have ever dreamed of. That's how the heart works.

Sonia Choquette

Tenacity is when you follow your heart - when the whole world is screaming to get back into your head

Sonia Choquette

Once we tune in to what we feel in our heart and Spirit, our intuition kicks into gear and starts to communicate with us in so many delightful ways.

Sonia Choquette

The benefits of detachment in the face of intense emotional activity can’t be overstated. It doesn’t cut you off from your heart center; it opens you more. In fact, when you refrain from absorbing the energy around you, you’ll remain clear and grounded, you’ll be able to easily access your creative and intuitive channel, and you’ll be able to choose to use the messages you receive from your Higher Self.

Sonia Choquette

The open heart sees, feels and absorbs the beauty of the world.

Sonia Choquette

When the heart is open and balanced, we enter into a state of attraction to what we need, because the power of love is magnetic and harmonious.

Steve Jobs

Follow your heart, but check it with your head.

Steve Jobs

Whatever you do, you must never let the voice in your head control the brain in your heart.

Steve Earle

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

Steve Coogan

I'm a single guy now and can do what I like. As my agent said, so long as it's not a live man or a dead woman, I'll be fine. And that, hand on heart, is unlikely to happen.

Stephen Schwartz

Don't wish. Don't Start. Wishing only wounds the heart.

Stephen Schwartz

So much of me is made of what I learned from you; you'll be with me like a handprint on my heart and now whatever way our stories end I know you have re-written mine by being my friend

Stephen Spender

Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest fields, See how these names are fêted in the waving grass And by the streamers of the white cloud And whispers of the wind in the listening sky. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's centre. Born of the sun, they travelled a short while toward the sun And left the vivid air signed with their honour.

Stephen Sondheim

Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart.

Stephen Foster

Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay, Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away, Gone from the earth to a better land I know, I hear their gentle voices calling Old Black Joe.

Stephen Fry

When we understand every single secret of the universe, there will still be left the eternal mystery of the human heart.

Stephen Fry

There is something in the American project, something in simple American oratory, something in the hope and idealism of this frustrating and contradictory nation that still makes my spirits soar and my heart leap with optimism and belief. If only they understood how to make a cup of tea.

St. Vincent

Free your mind from all that troubles you; God will take care of things. You will be unable to make haste in this (choice) without, so to speak, grieving the heart of God, because he sees that you do not honor him sufficiently with holy trust. Trust in him, I beg you, and you will have the fulfillment of what your heart desires.

St. Vincent

Charity is the cement that unites communities to God and individuals to each other so that he who contributes to the union of hearts in a community binds it indissolubly to God.

Sri Aurobindo

We have to create strength where it did not exist before; we have to change our natures, and become new men with new hearts, to be born again ... We need a nucleus of men in whom the Shakti is developed to its uttermost extent, in whom it fills every corner of the personality and overflows to fertilise the earth. These, having the fire of Bhawani in their hearts and brains, will go forth and carry the flame to every nook and cranny of our land.

St. Jerome

A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.

St. Jerome

Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one's faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one's life

St. Jerome

No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.

Sri Chinmoy

No more my heart shall sob or grieve. My days and nights dissolve in God's own Light. Above the toil of life, my soul is a Bird of Fire winging the Infinite.

Sri Chinmoy

If you do not find peace inside your own heart, then you will not find it anywhere else on earth.

Sri Chinmoy

The Stormy life can be braved Only by the heart's Sunny meditations.