#heart

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#fortune #given #good #good fortune #great

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#his #man #matters #size

Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don't recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I got a big shock. They put me in with this rough, tough veteran called Lionel Byarm. He tested me to the limit. But I fought my heart out and, in the end, I prevailed. The story of my life, in my very first fight. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#called #could #end #fear #fight

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this. ↗

— Homer

#heart #known #still #than #thou

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe. ↗

— Homer

#good #heart #learned #melt #other

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another. ↗

— Homer

#gates #hateful #heart #hell #hiding

I'd rather be a kid and play with paper planes, than be a man and play with a woman's heart. ↗

— Niall Horan

#heart #i #kid #man #paper

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#heart #kind #optimism #stimulant

J'écoutais mon cœur. Je ne pouvais imaginer que ce bruit qui m'accompagnait depuis si longtemps pût jamais cesser. ↗

— Albert Camus

#death #heart #imagination #la-mort #death

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are truly good at heart. ↗

— Kurt Huber

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