On heart

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Sai Ram

 

Sri Satya Sai Baba has said that there is only one caste, the caste of

humanity; there is only one language, the language of heart. Lord Byron has

said that hatred is the madness of heart. Thinker Cotton has said that power

intoxicates the best hearts, as wine, the strongest heads. Helen Keller has

said that beautiful things cannot be seen or touched, they can only be felt

with the heart. Mahatma Gandhi has said that we may have our private opinions

but why should they be a bar on the meeting of hearts? To know more about

heart, here are some idioms: "Have a heart" - Requesting some one to be kind

to you. "Open/Bare your heart" - To Inform others about your secret thoughts

and feelings. "To your heart's content" - To do something as much as you

want to. "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" - Being away from some one

that you love makes you love him/her even more. "Close/dear to somebody's

heart" - Very important issue. "Cross my heart" - To say with emphasis that

something is true. "From the bottom of your heart" - with sincere feeling.

"Set your heart on doing something" - To decide to achieve something. "Put

your heart and soul in doing something" - To accomplish something with a

sincere effort and interest. "A heart-to-heart" - An honest conversation

between two people about their feelings. "Home is where the heart is" -

Means that your true home is with the person or in the place that you love

most. "Sick at heart" - very sad. "Your heart bleeds" - To feel sad and

show sympathy for those who are in trouble. "Somebody's heart is in the

right place" -A person is good and kind even if he does not look like that.

"Somebody's heart is in their boots" - Somebody feels sad or worried. "Set

your heart on something/doing something" - To determine to achieve something.

"Wear your heart on your sleeve" - To make your feelings and opinions be

known to everybody.

"Warm the cockles of your heart" - If cockles of your heart is warmed, it

means that others are good and kind to you and you are happy.

"Heart stand still" - means frightened or worried. "By heart" - A set of

facts accurately memorised. "Faint heart never won fair lady" - Means it is

necessary to be bold to achieve what one desires.

"Do someone' s heart good" - Give some one a pleasure of feeling.

"Give some one heart failure" - To give some one a bad shock. "Heart

goes out to somebody" - Feel pity, sympathy for somebody. "Harden your

heart" - Stop being kind or friendly to others.

In brief from article M D Keshava Murthy.

Source: http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/feb262004/edu6.asp

Namaste - Reet