Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts.

You have to think with the heart.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

If you listen to what I'm saying, there's always a reason for it. Always. And it always comes from my heart, a place of love.

My favorite body part of Kim's: heart.

I believe that the way to a man's heart is not through his stomach. It's a little further south.

Admiration is the emotion furthest from understanding. ~Sosuke Aizen

The thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it. And each feels as good as the other. Your heart doesn't know if it's loving a man, a book, or a puppy. If your heart were that smart, it would be your brain.

The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.

Yes, I know it. In the darkness of my dark beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it alright. You see? Even Death Has A Heart.

Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.

The wise are wise only because they love.

That's what I learned. I learned I couldn't shed light on love other than to feel its comings and goings and be grateful.

I think many of us get separated from the mothership - our body - early on. I think the mothership is also the Earth, and life itself. Trauma separates us from that and dissociates us from our hearts.

A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.

In a very unscientific statement, I feel that there's been a disconnect between this clever brain and the heart.

Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?

Love is wiser than wisdom.

I haven't ever really found a place that I call homeI never stick around quite long enough to make itI apologize that once again I'm not in loveBut it's not as if I mindthat your heart ain't exactly breaking.

I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated? I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use them for your closer contact?

When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts.

In a society that almost demands life at double time, speed and addictions numb us to our own experience. In such a society, it is almost impossible to settle into our bodies or stay connected with our hearts, let alone connect with one another or the earth where we live.

From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.

Nobody can come and be involved in the #LoveArmy unless they have a heart.

But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart.