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Quotes About Feelings

Scorpios are more conscious of the war in their own natures than are most people. Perhaps they are ashamed of their intense feelings and it is for this reason that they tend to be secretive...
~ Sheila Geddes, 1980
I think about you constantly, whether it's with my mind or my heart.
~ Terri Guillemets
Might we… be doing something with our brains that cannot be described in computational terms at all? How do our feelings of conscious awareness – of happiness, pain, love, aesthetic sensibility, will, understanding, etc. – fit into such a computational picture?
~ Roger Penrose
I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.
~ Eddie Vedder
Don't ever think I feel for you, or feel over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.
~ Toni Morrison
Listening is a gift of spiritual significance that you can learn to give to others. When you listen, you give one a sense of importance, hope and love that he or she may not receive any other way. Through listening, we nurture and validate the feelings one has, especially when he or she experiences difficulties in life.
~ H. Norman Wright
Negative feelings about the past bring negativity to the present
~ H.W. Mann
Never let a boy know you're crazy about him. He'll lose interest, and then you'll be a loser.
~ Hailey Abbott
It is a deep comfort to children to discover that their feelings are a normal part of the human experience. There is no better way to convey that than to understand them. When
~ Haim G. Ginott
Empathy, a parent's ability to understand what a child is feeling, is an important and valuable ingredient of child rearing.
~ Haim G. Ginott
Unfortunately, when parents are confronted with children's misbehavior, they are unaware that usually disturbing feelings fuel that behavior. Feelings must be dealt with before behavior can be improved. As
~ Haim G. Ginott
Responsibility in children starts with the parents' attitude and skills. The attitudes include a willingness to allow children to feel all their feelings; the skills include an ability to demonstrate to children acceptable ways of coping with feelings. The
~ Haim G. Ginott
The main purpose of music education in childhood is to provide an effective outlet for feelings. A child's life is so full of restrictions, regulations, and frustrations that outlets of release become essential. Music is one of the best avenues of release: It gives sound to fury, shape to joy, and relief to tension. Parents
~ Haim G. Ginott
An empathic response that mirrors to children their upset feelings and expresses the parents' sympathy and understanding is effective in changing children's angry moods. The
~ Haim G. Ginott
permissiveness is the acceptance of imaginary and symbolic behavior. Over-permissiveness is the allowing of undesirable acts. Permissiveness and acceptance of all feelings bring confidence and an increasing capacity to express feelings and thoughts. Over-permissiveness brings anxiety and increasing demands for privileges that cannot be granted. Permit
~ Haim G. Ginott
Feelings must be dealt with before behavior can be improved.
~ Haim G. Ginott
Where do we start if we are to improve communication with children? By examining how we respond. We even know the words. We heard our parents use them with guests and strangers. It is a language that is protective of feelings, not critical of behavior. What
~ Haim G. Ginott
Behind many childhood questions is the desire for reassurance. The best answer for such questions is the assurance of our abiding relationship. When a child tells of an event, it is sometimes helpful to respond not to the event itself, but to the feelings around it.
~ Haim G. Ginott
The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking—it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.
~ Hakuin Ekaku
Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didn't really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone's dreams.
~ Hal Sparks
Instead, it is a group of subpersonalities, watched over by the protector/controller, that determines our feelings and behavior. Thus, we always have a vague fear that if the other person really knew what we were like, he or she would abandon us (even though we ourselves do not know what this mysterious "real" person is actually like).
~ Hal Stone
Stuck in the middle of "I love you" and "I can't take this anymore.
~ Halsey
Pearls around the neck - stones upon the heart.
~ Hanan J. Ayalti
You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.
~ Hanif Kureishi