Diane Ackerman Quotes about Heart

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Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything else.

Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything else.

Diane Ackerman

Heart, Anxiety, Mind

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

Diane Ackerman

Heart, Museums, Lifetime

"A Natural History of Love". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1994.

If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?

Diane Ackerman

Heart, Blood, Worry

When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.

Diane Ackerman

Heart, Blue, Ice

Happiness doesn't require laughter, only well-being and a sense that the world is breaking someone else's heart, not mine.

Diane Ackerman

Happiness, Laughter, Heart

We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, more than violence, more than hatred. We allow ourselves to be foiled by the vagueness of the word. After all, love requires the utmost vulnerability. We equip someone with freshly sharpened knives; strip naked; then invite him to stand close. What could be scarier?

Diane Ackerman

Heart, Thinking, Knives

Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.20, Vintage

When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.

Diane Ackerman

Heart, Civilization, World

In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet; we kill to live. Taste is what carries us across that rocky moral terrain, what makes the horror palatable, and the paradox we could not defend by reason melts into a jungle of sweet temptations.

Diane Ackerman

Sweet, Heart, Love Life

Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.172, Vintage