„At fifteen my heart was set on learning; at thirty I stood firm; at forty I had no more doubts; at fifty I knew the will of heaven; at sixty my ear was obedient; at seventy I could follow my heart’s desire without overstepping the boundaries of what was right.“

— Confucius

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„Extinguish my sight, and I can still see you;plug up my ears, and I can still hear;even without feet I can walk toward you,and without mouth I can still implore.Break off my arms, and I will hold youwith my heart as if it were a hand;strangle my heart, and my brain will still throb;and should you set fire to my brain,I still can carry you with my blood.“
— Rainer Maria Rilke
„I followed my heart without breaking any rules.“
— Confucius
„My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour.“
— Jim Butcher
„If I was not fighting against child labor, I don't know what else I could do. It was always in my heart, I could not live without that“
— Kailash Satyarthi
„But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not going to become passionate about something that was impossible. I knew my limits; I knew how much suffering i could bear.“
— Paulo Coelho
„And if my heart be scarred and burned,The safer, I, for all I learned.“
— Dorothy Parker
„Aphrodite: Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.Percy: But… I don't know where it's going. My heart, I mean.“
— Rick Riordan