78+ Best Heartfelt Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Profoundly inspirational heartfelt quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.

Famous Heartfelt Quotes

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Ashley Smith

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Neale Donald Walsch

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. Dalai Lama

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. Oprah Winfrey

Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future. David Whyte

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. Bernard Baruch

Grace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us. Philip Yancey

The most powerful life is the most simple life. The most powerful life is the life that knows where it’s going, that knows where the source of strength is; it is the life that stays free of clutter and happenstance and hurriedness. Max Lucado

It is in the love of one’s family only that heartfelt happiness is known. Thomas Jefferson

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it always. Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. Zhuangzi

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson

True beauty is a warm heart, a kind soul, and an attentive ear. Ken Poirot

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there. Kofi Annan

Whoever is happy will make others happy too. Anne Frank

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. Bruce Lee

Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart. Basil Rathbone

I wish I could’ve lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that’s impossible. A path like that doesn’t exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time we push forward. It’s all we can do. On our own two feet. Even if we get a little banged up. Someday, we’ll reach something. We’ll reach someone. We pray. Come on. It’s time to start walking. Natsuki Takaya

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. Douglas Pagels

Have confidence in who you are and don’t be afraid to go for what you really want in life. Holland Roden

Things are never quite as scary when you have a best friend. Bill Waterson

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch

If you have one true friend you have more than your share. Thomas Fuller

Be the designer of your own destiny. Oscar de la Renta

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. Khalil Gibran

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Søren Kierkegaard

Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. Beethoven

Good friends help you to find important things when you have lost them your smile, your hope, and your courage. Doe Zantamata

It always seems impossible until it’s done. Nelson Mandela

Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.  Tennessee Williams

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. Jack London

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. Oprah Winfrey

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold. Bob Marley

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Charles R. Swindoll

Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. No time to think about what’s happening. It’s inevitable. An event you can’t control. A crazy, heart stopping, roller coaster ride that just has to take its course. Jackie Collins

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust

First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love. Maya Angelou

Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. Ally Condie

They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that’s true. Senior Ed Bloom

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Walter Winchell

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love. Albus Dumbledore

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. Anaïs Nin

Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches. William

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. Elisabeth Foley

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. Joan Powers

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained. Winston Churchill

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Rumi

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. Haniel Long

Everything about you resonates happiness. No I won’t settle for less. Muse

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. Anthony Brandt

Life is like a camera. Focus on what’s important. Capture the good times. And if things don’t work out, just take another shot. Ziad K. Abdelnour

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. Mother Teresa

Happiness depends upon ourselves. Aristotle

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. Barbara Bush

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. Dalai Lama

Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing. Irina Shayk

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. Marcus Aurelius

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. William James

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius

Laugh. Choose with no regret. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is. Mary Anne Radmacher

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. Charles Spurgeon

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Lao Tzu

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi

Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever. Peter Hagerty

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. Thomas Aquinas

Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments. Rose Kennedy

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. Hubert H. Humphrey

Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get. Forrest Gump

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Walter Winchell

Don’t give it five minutes if you’re not going to give it five years. Meghan Markle

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything. Muhammad Ali