The heart is a fist-sized organ in the body that pumps blood. However, don't let this boring statement fool you. The heart is all about a lot of other things, especially emotions. Although in the actual sense emotions happen in the brain, the heart usually takes all the credit.
People will talk of heartaches and heartbreaks. You'll even hear of hearts bursting with anger, full of sadness, or overflowing with love. You never see feelings expressed with brain-shaped drawings, rather, heart-like drawings are used to pass the message.
People feel emotions with their hearts because the heart reacts when the brain sends a signal of emotions. For example, when you see someone you like, your heart beats faster and this makes it easier for you to feel it. That leads you to believe that maybe your heart sensed this person and that's why you felt it beating faster.
The same happens when you experience heartbreak. You may feel like your heart is falling apart. The mind registers emotional pain just like physical pain. When you are hurt, you may feel pain in your chest.
Remember to lead a lifestyle that keeps your heart healthy because as you know, if your heart stopped beating, then that would be the end. Be physically active, eat leafy vegetables, fatty fish, and most importantly eat dark chocolate! Funny but true, dark chocolate boosts your heart's health and prevents heart disease.
If you are going through a heartbreak, go easy on yourself. It's never easy. Take time to grieve, talk about it, and find a new source of joy. It could be a new hobby or something that challenges you.
Be kind to yourself and even on the hard days remind yourself that you can do it. Here is our collection of heart quotes on various matters of the heart. Enjoy!
































































































































![GONZALO: Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard. BOATSWAIN: None that I more love than myself. You are a counsellor; if you can command these elements to silence, and work the peace of the present, we will not hand a rope more; use your authority: if you cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of the hour, if it so hap. [To mariners] Cheerly, good hearts! [To the courtiers] Out of our way, I say.](/cdn-cgi/image/width=300,height=300,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/116.jpg)


















![You're trying to find it, aren't you? I'm sure that inside your heart… you’re trying with all you might to find it on your own… the reason you were born. Because… because really… there might not be anyone who was born with a reason. I think that everyone might have to find one on their own. [in her head] A reason for being born… A reason that it’s okay to be alive… A reason to exist. [aloud] I think everyone might have to find it themselves… and decide for themselves. It could be your dreams… your job… or a person. …The reason you’re looking for… might be vague, unclear… and uncertain. [in her head] And you might lose it. [aloud] But as long as you’re alive…you have to keep searching for that reason. I'm searching too. And if I can... If I can, I want to find my reason... In someone else.](/cdn-cgi/image/width=300,height=300,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/8632.jpeg)













![Did someone break your heart, Arisa-san…? […] There are some things that take a long time to acquire, like friends or lovers. So it wasn’t for nothing.](/cdn-cgi/image/width=300,height=300,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/8928.jpeg)






















































![Though [Wizard Howl] did not seem to want to leave the hills, he was known to amuse himself by collecting young girls and sucking the souls from them. Or some people said he ate their hearts. He was an utterly cold-blooded and heartless wizard and no young girl was safe from him if he caught her on her own. Sophie, Lettie, and Martha, along with all the other girls in Market Chipping, were warned never to go out alone, which was a great annoyance to them.](/cdn-cgi/image/width=300,height=300,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2298.jpeg)
![“...if the spell was off, I’d have my heart eaten before I could turn around.” “Don’t you want your heart eaten?” asked the fire. [...] “Naturally I don’t,” Sophie answered.](/cdn-cgi/image/width=300,height=300,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2198.jpeg)














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