Douglas William Jerrold Quotes

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

I think that women often can connect at a heart to heart level.

The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to.

This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize love isn't about sex. It's about connection.

I am not interested in communicating something to you, I am interested in communion. Communication means my mind talking to your mind. Communion means I am not a mind, you are not a mind - just your heart melting into my heart, no words.

Love is a light that shines from heart to heart.

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.

Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive

The work of intimacy, of course, is to learn to both show your own illumination, and to see it in a way that the physical eyes cannot reveal. In a way that only the heart can reveal: the illumined beauty in another person.

The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.

If you can affect someone when they're young, you are in their heart forever.

Speak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart.

What is to reach the heart must come from above; if it does not come from thence, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit.

My heart is fluid and soaring. There's no longer any space between heartbeats.

If we have youth, beauty, blessed gifts, strength, if we find fame, fortune, favor, fulfillment, it is easy to be nice, to turn a warm heart to the world.

Love is the heart s immortal thirst to be completely known and all forgiven.

Love is the only thing that pays for birth, Or makes death welcome. Oh, dear God above This beautiful but sad, perplexing earth, Pity the hearts that know--or know not--Love!

What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.

True friends are always together in spirit.

I love with the heart not the eyes.

The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty of individuals. Water will seek its level; nature will have free course; and heart will answer to heart.

Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader's heart and a writer's, a connection that transcends the barriers of continents and generations and even death ... And here's the magic. You're different. You can never go back to being exactly the same person you were before you disappeared into that book.

A dog doesn't care if you are rich or poor, educated of illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his. It was really quite simple, and yet we humans, so much wiser and more sophisticated, have always had trouble figuring out what really counts and what does not.

Sit with lovers and choose their state. Do not stay long with those who are not living in the heart.