Colleen Hoover Quotes

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

The truth is that the right decision often can't be led with either head or heart exclusively.

The Heart is the Capital of the Mind— The Mind is a single State— The Heart and the Mind together make A single Continent— One—is the Population— Numerous enough— This ecstatic Nation Seek—it is Yourself.

Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head.

One thing I learned is that the mind, rather than being the master, should be the servant of the heart.

Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.

Teach the heart not to give way to proud emotions and arrogant thinking; bring the mind to heart-soothing solutions that make it possible to control oneself gently and wisely.

Don't let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

I don't let the hate go to my heart, and I don't let the praise go to my head.

If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.

I do believe in listening to your mind as well that that you need to be smart about certain things, to protect yourself. You need a healthy mix of both really, but it's important not to think so much that you're not able to follow your heart.

For me there's a need for balance - fulfilling the sensitive side, letting my guard down, holding back the warrior in me. And I have to be vulnerable which is very hard for me to do.

Success and failure are emotional and physiological experiences. We need to deal with them in a way that is present and calm.

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.

The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.

Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

I'm a Libra. I'm happy to be an air sign, but I do think I have a little too much air in my chart as a whole - some more water would be useful, especially in my personal life, as an emotional counterweight to all that abstraction.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.