Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
—William Makepeace Thackeray
You don't gain much in life if you never allow yourself to be vulnerable. Sometimes the best things in life happen when we open our hearts and give someone the opportunity to hurt us, and trust them not to, and they don't.
—Terry Bolryder in Bearlebrity
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
—Helen Keller
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
—Betty Bender
The ear is the avenue to the heart.
—Voltaire
Here's the thing about broken hearts: You can always survive them. Always. No matter how deep the hurt, the capacity to heal and move on is even stronger.
—Susan Wiggs in Summer At Willow Lake
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
—Mignon McLaughlin
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
—Pema Chödrön
I am at heart a gentleman.
—Marlene Dietrich
Although one broken heart doesn't make me an expert in the subject, I believe you need both things—time and an emotional replacement—to fully mend one.
—Emily Giffin in Love the One You're With
Revolution does not begin with a group. It begins from the heart.
—Shahla Khan
Just as the water of the streams we see is small in amount compared to that which flows underground, so the idealism which becomes visible is small in amount compared with what men and women bear locked in their hearts.… To unbind what is bound, to bring the underground waters to the surface: mankind is waiting and longing for such as can do that.
—Albert Schweitzer
The Bad Boy. This one will probably steal your heart in your early 20's, in those years when you're trying to figure out who you are and who you want to be, and discovering your wings seems to come with a side of rebellion. You'll think you can change him, but you can't. (And secretly, you won't want to, because if you did, he'd no longer be the boy who stole your heart.) He'll make you cry as much or more as he makes you laugh. Underneath it all, you suspect he has a heart of gold… and he probably does… but it will take years and many women after you to uncover it. Here's the thing about bad boys: In the end, they always walk away. But they don't leave you empty-handed. In their wake will be a girl who now knows what she wants out of love and what she won't ever again stand for. And she's finally learned how to say "Thanks, but no thanks" to anyone who doesn't meet that standard.
—Mandy Hale in Beautiful Uncertainty
There are some things you don't learn about yourself until you let someone else into the most intimate places of your heart.
—Kiera Cass in The Heir
The heart does not always make sense. It wants what it wants, even if what it desires does not want it back.
—Amber Lynn Natusch in Fractured