Quotes on Matters Of The Heart

I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of religion. Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of science. In other words, religion has become a matter of the heart and science has become a matter of the mind. This regrettable state of affairs does not reflect the fact that physiologically , one cannot exist without the other. Mind and heart are only different aspects of us.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

So yes. It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.

I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.