take to heart

Let it affect

To take something to heart is to be deeply affected by it, letting it influence your feelings or behavior.

Usually applied to criticism, advice, or emotional events: She took his rejection to heart and withdrew from dating for years.

I hope you'll take my suggestions to heart.

The phrase implies genuine internalization rather than surface acknowledgment.

internalize

absorb

Take in fully

assimilate · incorporate · digest · receive · welcome · heed · register · acknowledge · personalize · own

reflect

ponder

Think deeply about

think over · weigh · ruminate · deliberate · examine · evaluate · assess · analyze · study · review

emotional-impact

move

Change location or act

  • touchPerceiving through physical contact
  • stirMix by circling
  • affectProduce change upon

resonate · wound · hurt · sting · upset · grieve · distress · pierce · cut · pain

Opposites
emotional reception

take to heartshrug off

Dismiss as unimportant

brush off · dismiss · blow off · shake off · water off a duck's back

cognitive weight

take to heartdisregard

Willful lack of attention

ignore · go in one ear and out the other · discount · write off · overlook

Family

take, heart, taken, taking, hearts, takes, heartless, hearten, disheartened

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