115 Inspirational Heartfelt Quotes

In a world where words have the power to uplift, inspire, and provide solace, heartfelt quotes serve as small beacons of light and hope. They encapsulate profound wisdom, emotions, and insights in just a few lines, making them easily accessible tools for reflection and motivation. Whether you're seeking encouragement during challenging times, looking for words to express feelings of love and gratitude, or finding guidance to ignite your passions and dreams, these quotes have the ability to touch the heart and soul. Embark on this journey through our carefully curated collection of 115 inspirational heartfelt quotes, and allow these powerful words to resonate with you, inspire meaningful change, and offer comfort when you need it most.

1. “The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. ” - Pearl S. Buck

2. “The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)...” - C.S. Lewis

3. “And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?” - Boris Pasternak

4. “Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;Thy fate is the common fate of all,Into each life some rain must fall” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

5. “And what of the dead? They lie without shoesin the stone boats. They are more like stonethan the sea would be if it stopped. They refuseto be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone. ” - Anne Sexton

6. “It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.” - D.H. Lawrence

7. “Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” - Mahatma Gandhi

8. “But you will exceed all of them. For you will sacrifice the man who bears me. Already your horn has been raised, and your wrath has been kindled, and your star has passed by, and your heart has become strong." [--Jesus to Judas]” - Rodolphe Kasser

9. “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.” - Augustine of Hippo

10. “Excess makes the heart grow fonder...” - John Balance

11. “Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.” - Homer

12. “Hold your head high heavy heart.” - William Beckett

13. “You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.” - Mark Twain

14. “Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.” - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

15. “If someone loves you, they should not be envious of you pouring your heart and soul and time and energy into the things that you are passionate about, but instead....they should love you MORE because you are so involved in those things.” - Sharon Swan

16. “Certainly the heart has always something to tell about the future to those who listen to it. But what does the heart know? Scarce a little of what has already happened. ” - Alessandro Manzoni

17. “I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.” - Fannie Flagg

18. “A heart has problems which mind cannot understand.” - Santosh Kalwar

19. “You speak from your heart, young Firepaw. This will make you a stronger warrior one day." said LionheartTigerclaw growled. "Or it might make him give in to kittypet weakness right at the moment of attack” - Erin Hunter

20. “Dearest Cecilia, You’d be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish in your presence, Cee, and I don’t think I can blame the heat.” - Ian McEwan

21. “As you get older, the heart shed its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few more leaves; and then there are the storms that break off several branches at one go. And while nature’s greenery grows back again in the spring, that of the heart never grows back.” - Gustave Flaubert

22. “All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

23. “I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.” - Tana French

24. “I am my heart’s undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow.” - Emilie Autumn

25. “Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin.” - Brian Ruckley

26. “My heart is small, like a love of buttons or black pepper.” - S. Jane Sloat

27. “Questions, I've got some questionsI want to know youBut what if I could ask you only one thingOnly this one time, what would you tell me?Well maybe you could give me a suggestionSo I could know you, what would you tell me?Maybe you could tell me what to ask youBecause then I'd know you, what would you tell mePlease tell me that there's timeTo make this work for all intents and purposesAnd what are your intentions, will you try?Impressions, you've made impressionsThey're going nowhereThey're just going to wait here if you let themPlease don't let themI want to know youAnd if they're going to haunt mePlease collect themPlease just collect themAnd now I'm beggingI'm begging you to ask me just one questionOne simple questionBecause then you'd know meI'll tell you that there's timeTo make this work for all intents and purposesAt least for my ownWhat is a heart worth if it's just left all alone?Leave it long enough and watch it turn into stoneWhy must we always be untrue?” - Jack Johnson

28. “She put one hand on mine. “When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.” - Mitch Albom

29. “The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.” - Anita Shreve

30. “When we feel, a kind of lyric is sung in our heart. When we think, a kind of music is played in our mind. In harmony, both create a beautiful symphony of life.” - Toba Beta

31. “The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.” - Amit Abraham

32. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!” - Charlotte Brontë

33. “She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She didn't trust anyone with her heart - or the darker places of her soul.” - Christine Feehan

34. “rindu adalah badai yang mengkaramkan perahu hingga tiada yang terapung di lautan hati selain dia yang dirindu” - Riza Rahmi

35. “There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried with a human heart. The heart, making itself guilty of such secrets, must perforce hold them, until the day when all hidden things shall be revealed. Nor have I so read or interpreted the Holy Writ, as to understand that the disclosure of human thoughts and deeds, then to be made, is intended as part of the retribution. That, surely, were a shallow view of it. No; these revelations, unless I greatly error, are meant merely to promote the intellectual satisfaction of all intelligent beings, who will stand waiting, on that day, to see the dark problem of this life made plain. A knowledge of men's hearts will be needful to the completest solution of that problem. And I conceive, moreover, that the hearts holding such secrets as you speak of will yield them up, at that last day, not with reluctance, but with a joy unutterable.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

36. “I’ve been through all this before,’ he says to his heart.“ ‘Yes, you have been through all this before,’ replies his heart. ‘But you have never been beyond it.” - Paulo Coelho

37. “The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.” - Stefan Zweig

38. “Well, as to that, all I'll say is, you can't take out a fellow's heart before he's ready to give it up.” - Louis Bayard

39. “Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.” - Jennifer Aniston

40. “So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.” - Lucretius

41. “A pure belief can not be forced on human's heart.If it could, no need for terms such as 'I've told you'.” - Toba Beta

42. “I love you," she said, and I knew she meant it because she spoke the words from the heart at the center of her chest. This, at least, had not been left behind at the hospital.” - Augusten Burroughs

43. “why, it beats so i can love you.” - Ronlyn Domingue

44. “He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.” - James Joyce

45. “...love is a chemical imbalance, too. That perilous highs and desperate lows and extravagant flurries of mood are not always symptoms of a broken mind, but signs of a beating heart.” - Terri Cheney

46. “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.” - Jodi Picoult

47. “I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.” - Stevie Smith

48. “No one can ever use his heart to listen or touch or feel or see or smell. It's just a lump of muscle pumping mechanically inside your ribs. It has no will and no ability to do anything but go on pumping until it gives up and withers away or is choked by some disease. Your spinal cord, on the other hand, feels. The central nervous system pours out from the spinal cord, and with it one feels pain. Pain is the most trustworthy sensation a human being can know because it teaches us what hurts. With the spinal cord, one can hear what will hurt, smell the sting of suffering, taste it, feel it, and see the world with new eyes. I learned a long time ago not to follow my heart, the hunk of meat flexing in the chest. I trust the tube locked up in a column of bone, the tube that shows me what pain is.” - Joshua S. Porter

49. “There is an emotional promiscuity we’ve noticed among many good young men and women. The young man understands something of the journey of the heart. He wants to talk, to “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 leaves. And she wonders, What did I do wrong? She failed to see his passivity. He really did not ever commit or offer assurances that he would. Like Willoughby to Marianne in Sense and Sensibility.Be careful you do not offer too much of yourself to a man until you have good, solid evidence that he is a strong man willing to commit. Look at his track record with other women. Is there anything to be concerned about there? If so, bring it up. Also, does he have any close male friends - and what are they like as men? Can he hold down a job? Is he walking with God in a real and intimate way? Is he facing the wounds of his own life, and is he also demonstrating a desire to repent of Adam’s passivity and/or violence? Is he headed somewhere with his life? A lot of questions, but your heart is a treasure, and we want you to offer it only to a man who is worthy and ready to handle it well.” - Stasi Eldredge

50. “You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.” - Charles Yu

51. “Because you let our love just fall apartYou no longer have my heart” - Boyz II Men

52. “Powerful words harmonize heart and mind as if a symphony.” - Toba Beta

53. “There’s a pause so yawning I can’t help but think about what it would be like to lean in and kiss her, but if I’m getting the signals wrong then I’m about to destroy the best run we’ve had all evening. It’s been at least ten minutes since I’ve done or said anything stupid.” - Leanne Hall

54. “If you measure your life by what you own, the cavern of your heart will never be filled.” - James D. Maxon

55. “I’m mistaken….for thinking you were someone with a heart worth breaking.” - Jamie Weise

56. “While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea” - E.M. Forster

57. “But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

58. “Take care of my heart won't you, Sophie? It's a little odd having it outside my body-but I'm planning to steal yours to make up for it.” - Nalini Singh

59. “But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.” - Jane Austen

60. “A new heart for a New Year, always!” - Charles Dickens

61. “Sometimes, the only soul that can mend a broken heart is the one that broke it. For they are the ones holding all the pieces.” - Patti Roberts

62. “She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.” - Bram Stoker

63. “Elizabeth,With my compliments.You will never get your claws into another one of mine.Rot in hell,LNïx clasped her hands over her chest, sighing, “He gave you his heart. That’s so romantic. So much better than a candy heart. Those get stuck in the fangs, you know.” - Kresley Cole

64. “His mind scolded him for his stupidity and urged him to forget her but his heart had no justifications for its stand. It remained unmoved, its solidarity unaffected, its arrogance still holding.” - Faraaz Kazi

65. “No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.” - Faraaz Kazi

66. “I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.” - Pope John XXIII

67. “To love is to accept a soul entirely, not wishing that the person was otherwise, nor hoping for change, nor clinging to some ideal past. To love is to cherish the individual standing before you presently―charms, quirks, and all. To love is to give someone a piece of your heart that you will never, ever reclaim.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

68. “...I don't want security - to be self-assured - I want to risk my heart in making your portrait and be paid the wages of your devotion...” - John Geddes

69. “(after asking Christ into his heart) I waited. And then, true to His promise, He came into my heart and my life. The moment was more than remarkable; it was the most realistic experience I'd ever had. I'm not sure what I expected; perhaps my life or my sins or a great white light would flash before my eyes; perhaps I'd feel a shock like being hit by a bolt of lightning. Instead, I felt no tremendous sensation, just a weightlessness and an enveloping calm that let me know that Christ had come into my heart.” - Louis Zamperini

70. “We are built with a passion in our heart for the things we are meant to do.” - Lights Poxlietner

71. “You never forget your first and true love, Ayden Grey. Not officially, not ever.” - Nadège Richards

72. “... I looked through the car's rear window for a final wave, and it felt like someone had invaded my chest and squeezed all the juice out of my heart until it was a tiny dry sponge.” - Karen Tayleur

73. “...the heart breaks in so many different ways that when it heals, it will have fault lines ...” - John Geddes

74. “Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.” - Criss Jami

75. “Love is years of devotion, sacrifice, commitment, loyalty, trust, faith, and friendship all wrapped up in one. True love does more than cause your heart to flutter. It upholds your heart when the infatuation no longer makes it flutter.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

76. “Legend has it, dwarves were made to uncover all the riches hidden on earth. Not just golds or precious stones, but the beauty in people's hearts. -Eric” - Lily Blake

77. “It's not the beauty in the face that makes people beautiful, wonderful, amazing , graceful or great, it's the beauty in a persons heart that makes everything beautiful and worth it. ♥” - Elena Toledo

78. “You're paved in my heart like an old road. Like the pebbles in a pebble field, dirt in dirt, dust in dust, cobwebs in cobwebs.” - Kyung-Sook Shin

79. “A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

80. “You just know something is amiss, when you look at someone and long for something that is not yours or you cannot have. It's an absence--a loss of a heartbeat.” - Nadège Richards

81. “For a long time now my heart has had its shutters closed, its steps deserted, formerly a tumultuous hotel, but now empty and echoing like a great empty tomb.” - Gustave Flaubert

82. “Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every colour. Like water or diamonds or crystals, it's pure and reflects the light.” - Glenda Millard

83. “You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]” - Oscar Wilde

84. “Your poor heart, in which God put appreciation for everlastingness, will not take electronic gadgets in lieu of eternal life. Something inside of you is too big for that, too terrible, too wonderful. God has set everlastingness in your heart. All the things of this world are here for but a moment and then are gone. None can satisfy the longing for that eternal ragging in the soul of every man.” - A.W. Tozer

85. “I would rather my heart be without words than my words be without heart.” - LaMar Boschman

86. “For all his sourness, he was ruled by his heart.” - Kim Harrison

87. “If Light Is In Your HeartYou Will Find Your Way Home.” - Rumi

88. “I put my hand on my chest, a habit I never quite shook after losing my heart.” - Jessica Fortunato

89. “...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and pain. How could she be with him for long? A secret part of Arbell had been searching for some time for a way to leave her lover—although she was unaware of this, it is only fair to record. And so as Cale waited for her to save him while he worked out a way of saving her, she had already chosen the bitter but reasonable path of the good, of the many over the one...” - Paul Hoffman

90. “Don't overthink things. Sometimes you can convince your head not to listen to your heart. Those are the decisions you regret for the rest of your life." Faith Barnett From Texas Tangle” - Leah Braemel

91. “The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s dinner but the whole world is not big enough for it. Man spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing. From the lamb he tears its guts and makes his harp resound; from the wolf his most deadly tooth to polish his pretty works of art; from the elephant his tusks to make a toy for his child.(...)And who will exterminate him who exterminates all others?” - Paul Hoffman

92. “(…) maybe the heart is an organ on constant ready, always waiting to try again, always open to the next best thing.” - Kate Ellison

93. “An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense.” - Susan Wiggs

94. “Art is ment to travel from your heart to your head and out through your fingers...” - Kelly Bingham

95. “...my heart is a desolate field over which geese vee, the sky turns and the days lie fallow...” - John Geddes

96. “Enlightenment is a paradoxical phenomenon. You need to be commited to become enlightenment, and to do whatever is necessary to make it happen. But at the same time you can not force enlightenment to happen by sheer will. It is like the situation with happiness: you can not force happiness to happen, but you can create the right circumstances for happiness tohappen. You need to be willing to die, to let go of your limited sense of “I”, to achieve enlightenment. I can feel a deepening thirst to die, to dissolve into the silence, in my heart and being.” - Swami Dhyan Giten

97. “Oh no! This is bad. I think my heart was just stolen a little” - Atsushi Otani

98. “We're all born with the greatest treasures we'll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart.” - Susan Abulhawa

99. “When we stop judging others and ourselves, our heart begins to open.” - Swami Dhyan Giten

100. “A heartful mind can always see better than mindless eyes” - Munia Khan

101. “What about stakes in the heart?" I asked now. He frowned, the center of his mouth pursed while its corners curled downward. "Anyone will die from a stake in the heart," he said. "And anyone will die if they're severely burned, including vampires.” - Susan Hubbard

102. “Over the vistas broke a cold gray light, such as seen in those false dawns that are neither night nor true morning, when the world and all its contents seem but shapes of mist, formed in vain hope and desire... If you awake from troubled sleep at such a time, you can only sit by the window and think of those that have been lost to you, those that followed your parents into those cold and heartless regions below the grass, silent and dark. Eventually, morning comes and the world resumes its solidity, but another tiny thread of ice has been stitched into your heart forever.” - K.W. Jeter

103. “It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul.” - Lawrence Durrell

104. “People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.” - Victor Hugo

105. “Lust is a thing of the blood. Doesn't need head or heart.” - Karen Marie Moning

106. “Regalar un libro es fácil hasta que buscas uno para quien te ha robado el corazón.” - Sofía Navarro

107. “He was dimly angry with himself, he did not know why. It was that he had struck his wife. He had forgotten it, but was miserable about it, notwithstanding. And this misery was the voice of the great Love that had made him and his wife and the baby and Diamond, speaking in his heart, and telling him to be good. For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds. On Mount Sinai, it was thunder; in the cabman's heart it was misery; in the soul of St John it was perfect blessedness.” - George MacDonald

108. “Your heart is who you are, all else follows. Guard your heart, Thomas. Guard your heart.” - Liam Perrin

109. “I wish i were a little girl again, because skinned knees are easier to fix than broken heart.” - Julia Roberts

110. “With the rise of classical Greece, the soul debate evolved into the more familiar heart-versus-brain, the liver having been demoted to an accessory role. We are fortunate that this is so, for we would otherwise have been faced with Celine Dion singing "My Liver Belongs to You" and movie houses playing The Liver Is a Lonely Hunter. Every Spanish love song that contains the word corazon, which is all of them, would contain the somewhat less lilting higado, and bumper stickers would proclaim, "I [liver symbol] my Pekingese.” - Mary Roach

111. “I felt my heart expanding, making room for him to movie in permanently.” - Cecily White

112. “Not everything is meant for all to hear.” - Terry Tempest Williams

113. “One changed heart can be a light for many.” - L.M. Fields

114. “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, finances, troubles, or challenges—that, dear world, is love. It is a rare find.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

115. “Many people still believe that “tough guy” means having a camel type muscles rather than a lion heart.” - M.F. Moonzajer