Quotes About Feelings

This stance makes no distinction between (1) the pluralistic standpoint of making sure people have equal rights and (2) the act of co-dependently making sure not to hurt anyone's feelings, however irrational they may be. We need to stop that nonsense. Getting your feelings hurt, quite frankly, is the price of living a in a free society.

Co-dependency essentially revolves around the sentence: "I am not enough." A co-dependent person will always need another person to validate their worth, their feelings, their ideas and even their existence. This either shows itself as a need to manipulate and control surroundings; or as a need to bend over backwards to make other people feel good, the reason being that "I can't feel good if you don't feel good.

Walk into any church, and you will see people swimming in a sea of emotions (everything from shame and guilt to love and ecstasy). That may be the reason some people think that the more emotional they are, the more spiritual they are. But, as we will explore later in the book, undiluted spirituality has little to do with emotions, and what little it does have has more to do with emotional growth than feelings of elation.

We attend a postmodern meeting, and everyone leaves happy because everyone at the meeting was able to express himself or herself, even if no decisions were made. We give equal awards to our kids so nobody feels left out. Our news media is more concerned with the question, "How did that make you feel?" than any other.

Naime, iako ste svakim danom sve zaljubljeniji, isto tako ste i sve ranjiviji, sto ne zelite. Jos ne znate da mozete biti osecajni, a da pritom ne budete slabi.

Macht die Liebe einen zum Idioten, oder gibt es nur Idioten, die sich verlieben?

Poznajem samo jednu stvar koja je u isto vrijeme vrlo jednostavna i vrlo komplicirana.A to je? Ljubav.

Chaque vie connaît un jour ce type de séisme : ce moment où les sentiments deviennent des allumettes craquées au milieu d'une forêt desséchée. Le prélude à un incendie capable de ravager toutes nos fondations et de nous entraîner vers l'abîme. Ou la renaissance.

Et attendre un « je t'aime » pendant trois semaines, c'est pas vraiment humain lorsqu'on a vingt ans.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

that the crowd is always intellectually inferior to the isolated individual, but that, from the point of view of feelings and of the acts these feelings provoke, the crowd may, according to circumstances, he better or worse than the individual. All depends on the nature of the suggestion to which the crowd is exposed.

The violence of the feelings of crowds is also increased, especially in heterogeneous crowds, by the absence of all sense of responsibility.

The disappearance of the conscious personality, the predominance of the unconscious personality, the turning of feelings and ideas in an identical direction by means of suggestion and contagion, the tendency to immediately transform the suggested ideas into acts; these, we see, are the principal characteristics of the individual forming part of a crowd. He is no longer himself, but has become an automaton who has ceased to be guided by his will.

Science promised us truth, or at least a knowledge of such relations as our intelligence can seize: it never promised us peace or happiness. Sovereignly indifferent to our feelings, it is deaf to our lamentations. It is for us to endeavour to live with science, since nothing can bring back the illusions it has destroyed.

Dices que tienes corazón, y sólo lo dices porque sientes sus latidos. Eso no es corazón...; es una máquina, que, al compás que se mueve, hace ruido.

Para hacerte gozar con mi alegría, para que sufras tú con mi dolor, para que sientas palpitar mi vida, hice mis versos yo.

Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.

There is always grief. It is joy that is the rarest thing

Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.

But the burden of appearing to be fine, so as to keep others from worrying about her, was almost worse than simply allowing herself to feel bad would have been.

He looked closely into Vyvyan's round and smiling face and said solemnly, "Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.

1425: When you really like someone, tell them. Sometimes you only get one chance.

The feeling of love comes with a certain warmth to fragile heart.

Everyone will forget what you said, and everyone will forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel.