I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.

She looked from the hilt protruding between her breasts into the eyes of the boy she loved. The golden light in them enfolded her and her heart stopped beating, leaving the ghost of her smile...

If you really want to seriously piss some people off, follow your heart.

The ocean in the sky keeps my love fresh like boat shoes that are too big to fail. My heart is flooded with feelings like Noah one knows.

Writers are disguised “sorcerers”. Armed with their mighty pens, they cast spells on their readers using words that could pierce right through the heart and soul. If our writings moved you, made you cry, made...

Life will not break your heart. It’ll crush it.

God begins molding a mother after His own heart on the inside–in the inner woman and her heart–and then works outward.

Without love even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sinks in… You can gain all the spiritual gifts in the world. You can take...

You can measure height. But you can’t measure heart.

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

From the solitude of the wood, [Man] has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.

They played so well defensively. I was so proud of them because that’s always been the heart of our program.

Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

Never break the heart, you live in.

You can’t do passion halfway. Living your passion means you’re all in. You trust your heart and trust your gut wherever that takes you.

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

I cried for all of those things that should have just been for us…

(…) maybe the heart is an organ on constant ready, always waiting to try again, always open to the next best thing.

I love you.” He stabbed a thumb at his chest as he glared at her.Of course he did. Lucien had never hidden the fact. But the love of a friend, while comforting, was not enough...

I’m sure she’s a great person and an outstanding coach. But once Bonnie left, my heart went to Maryland.

When it comes to the heart and soul, only the Bible can bring true and lasting changes.

A man after God’s own heart is…a man who yearns to please God,a man who desires to grow spiritually,a man who had a heart that obeys.

Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

There is one secret place…it is beautiful and peaceful, where gentle water flows, and most beautiful garden grows, yet, nobody could ever go to…You reach deep within my soul drawing out all the dreams that...

I think he’s a position player at heart but a pitcher out there on the field.

Memories aren’t stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.

There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man’s heart.

My heart had a crush on him from the moment we met, but it was faint, and the rest of me stubbornly refused to play along.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Faded is my heart…. Faded is my dream….Faded they may seem…. Never I scream!

I am a sailor, you’re my first mate We signed on together, we coupled our fate Hauled up our anchor, determined not to fail For the heart’s treasure, together we set sail With no maps...

I changed because of you. I could feel you, worming your way into my heart and soul, shifting things. You’ve no idea how aggravating it is to have to adapt to new feelings and thoughts.

But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.

Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.

We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.

To a homeless man, home is literally where the heart is.

I’m chasing a decade old ghost. Searching beneath the rafters of a cobweb-filled haven lined with old memories which my brain cannot accept are dead. The light of nostalgia is burning bright inside my heart....

A woman keeps her kitchen like her heart: Well stocked and labelled and shelved, with lots of air and light, spick and span and filled with love

To have a caring and committed heart toward someone—a heart so firm in its devotion as to sooner stop beating than neglect the object of its desire despite the person’s state of health, appearance, reputation,...

share the journey.” The woman is grateful to be pursued, she opens up. They share the intimacies of their lives – their wounds, their walks with God. But he never commits. He enjoys her… then...

The duty imposed on intellect by Life is not to suppress, but purify emotions.

Remember to delight yourself first, then others can be truly delighted.”This was my mantra when I published my first book in 1990, and still holds true. When we focus on the song of our soul...

The fundamental role of the heart is to nurture life and sustain it. Considered to be the most important organ between a mother and a child, when every heartbeat sends love to the unborn.Outside the...

You cannot judge a man by his smile, but you can judge a man by his heart. The smallest actions reveal the most about a heart’s true color, so pay attention to them. Actions are...

Crying is NOT a weakness. Cry as much as you have to. Don’t be afraid or ashamed to let your tears flow. Crying is a natural part of life. We all have feelings, and sometimes...

We should realize that man has not only a mind which conceives thoughts, but also a heart which can put them into practice.

My heart is flooded with love. Drowning is the way to go.

In the depth of our heart, we already know that we are perfect as we are. In the depth of our inner being, we already know that life is perfect as it is.