#human heart

The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making. ↗

— Lillian Smith

#away #dares #few #heart #human

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#beautiful #beautiful things #gift #god #heart

How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#heart #how #human #human heart #must

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#human #human heart #like #mark #pain

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear! ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#beings #delight #fear #finds #first

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image. ↗

— Charles W. Chesnutt

#divine #heart #human #human heart #image

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#evil #heart #human #human heart #may

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#eternal #expressive #gifted #heart #himself

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do. ↗

— Glenn Close

#acting #adventure #basically #examining #heart

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#drive #every #heart #him #human