Quotes About Feelings

There is no doubt that I am selective in my listening, hence "directive" if people wish to accuse me of this. I am centered in the group member who is speaking, and am unquestionably much less interested in the details of his quarrel with his wife, or of his difficulties on the job, or his disagreement with what has just been said, than in the meaning these experience have for him now and the feeling they arouse in him. It is to these meanings and feelings that I try to respond.

The modern self assumes the authority of inner feelings and sees authenticity as defined by the ability to give social expression to the same.

Doctors today, however, grant normative authority in such cases to inner feelings or psychological convictions.

Why do human egos seem so threatened by the thought that other animals think and feel? Is it because acknowledging the mind of another makes it harder to abuse them?

She was in his heart, in his very soul, and the love he felt for her was so much more than that of an adolescent boy for his first girlfriend.

The woman opened her eyes. "I can't feel my feet." Panic filled her voice now. "Just hold on, Mrs. Mason," he told her, touched by what was happening, moved by his enemy death, even as death began to press down. Be gentle, you demon, he thought.

The greatness of literature lies in its capacity to communicate the experiences and feelings of human beings in all their variety, affording us glimpses of the boundless vastness of humanity.

Carlos, sossegue, o amor é isso que você está vendo: hoje beija, amanhã não beija, depois de amanhã é domingo e segunda-feira ninguém sabe o que será.

Tende por certo: amar se aprende amando.

The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

Estaba alegre sin saber el motivo. Veía los colores de todas las cosas con un brillo tan intenso que me daba pena pensar que se apagaría.

Y de pronto me sorprendí al comprobar que el corazón ni siquiera se me aceleraba al pensar en ella. Me dolió que no me doliera.

The poet Maya Angelou famously said people will forget what you said and what you did, but they'll never forget how you made them feel.

I am hot! For you! Why don't you feel the same anymore?

The reasons for Emma's illness and for her decision to allow life in, rather than die, are intertwined and involve the beginnings of her feelings of belonging, of safety and of competence to be in the world.

Haven't we all been hurt? Don't you think it takes courage to be happy, to feel, to love? Don't you think it costs us all? —Rivka

We can see the smoke of a burning home, but who can know of a burning heart? MALAY SAYING

decades of experimental research have found exactly the opposite: when people vent their feelings aggressively, they often feel worse, pump up their blood pressure, and make themselves even angrier.

HAN: I love you. Another shared look between them, as she smiles at Han. LEIA: I know.

Wilder's "truth" was less a matter of fact than of her memories, feelings, and convictions. Her work was based on facts but not factual. It was historical fiction, not history. Its chronology, and certain incidents and characters, were invented, altered, and fictionalized.

And when a girl likes talking about you more than talking to you, well, in my experience, that's the end.

Sobriety is less about "getting better" in a clear, linear sense than it is about subjecting yourself to change, to the inevitable ups and downs, fears and feelings, victories and failures, that accompany growth. You do get better—or at least you can— but that happens almost by default, by the simple fact of being present in your own life, of being aware and able, finally, to act on the connections you make.

Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug.

J-"Don't tell me you don't feel a true connection to the characters in your favorite books". A-"That is true, Pen. Just because they aren't real people doesn't make characters less...real".