Quotes About Feelings

My insides still turn over when he looks at me that certain way.

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Diaries are very futile. I must be all dream or all deed. It is quite impossible for me to express any of the beauty I feel to half the degree I feel it; and yet it is a great pleasure to seize an impression and lock it up in words: you feel as if you had it safe forever.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards -- the things we live by and teach our children -- are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

In truly effective thinking the prime necessity is to liquidate judgments, regain an innocent eye, disentangle feelings, be curious and open-hearted.

War is the greatest human experience that men have passed through for many centuries. But only when we know, through their own words, the full horror of what they experienced, and the depth and complexity of their feelings when under duress, can we appreciate how they held together and saved the world from despotism.

The most persistent hate is that which doth degenerate from love.

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

El amor está hecho a la medida del que ama.

El amor no es tan poderoso.

Si tu dolor no me duele, pues entonces estoy lejos, muy lejos de ti.

Las mejores cosas de la vida no pueden lograrse por la fuerza. Puedes obligar a comer, pero no puedes obligar a sentir hambre; puedes obligar a alguien a acostarse, pero no a dormir; puedes obligar a que te elogien, pero no a que te admiren; puedes obligar a que te cuenten un secreto, pero no a confiar; puedes obligar a que te sirvan, pero no a que te amen.27

Las emociones secundarias pueden considerarse prolongaciones mentales de las emociones primarias.

La ignorancia emocional se conoce con el nombre de alexitimia, y significa incapacidad de lectura emocional.

With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.

But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.

Don't try to figure out love, my friend. When two people fall for each other, they can be as different as sandpaper and polished cotton - yet the feelings are there, and you can't do a thing to stop them.

Their successful husbands had learned that earning money led to love. Because it did. However, earning money didn't sustain love. As women were becoming more in touch with and sharing what was bothering them, their husbands were often burying their heads in the sand, hoping the bullets would miss. The more successful they were, the more they learned to repress their feelings, not express their feelings.

Cualquier creación artística es hija de su tiempo y, la mayoría de las veces, madre de nuestros propios sentimientos. Igualmente, cada periodo cultural produce un arte que le es propio y que no puede repetirse. Pretender revivir principios artísticos del pasado puede dar como resultado, en el mejor de los casos, obras de arte que sean como un niño muerto antes de nacer. Por ejemplo, es totalmente imposible sentir y vivir interiormente como lo hacían los antiguos griegos.

The words "I should have done this back then" are a curse. Whenever they come up, they tangle around your heart and keep you from moving. They bring up all the baggage you carry and dull your emotions. From this point on is a domain where your emotions can't be dull... "I want to get faster", "I want to beat him", "This is fun"... "I want to move forward". You need to have only pure feelings like that, if you want to reach that domain!

Don't you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.

Okeydokey." "I think I liked you better when I didn't understand you.

hace falta mucha más entereza para manifestar emociones que para reprimirlas.

How is it we can do those things, things that feel permanent, like even if the relationship ended, those feelings would still be there? It makes me not believe in anything, in any feeling, in any profession, in any love at all. It's all just bullshit. Just hormones and lust and needs and filling people's gaps, the holes in their souls. We all just use each other, don't we? Nothing is what it seems.