Quotes About Feelings

Perhaps love cannot live anywhere but books.

Again. Sadder than was. Again. Saddest of all. Again.

I wasn't crying, but I couldn't stop.

Sometimes it was mild elation. Often it was a pleasant melancholy.

What was consistent was a certain serenity that followed a rigorous session. It was physical, this postsurf mood, but it had a distinct emotionality too. Sometimes it was mild elation. Often it was a pleasant melancholy. After particularly intense tubes or wipeouts, I felt a charged and wild inclination to weep, which could last for hours. It was like the gamut of powerful feelings that can follow heartfelt sex.

Pienso que lo más asombroso de llorar es que cuando empiezas, crees que no pararás nunca, pero en realidad no dura ni siquiera la mitad de lo que habías creído.

I thought an hour ago that I loved you more than any woman has ever loved a man, but a half hour after that I knew that what I felt before was nothing compared to what I felt then. But ten minutes after that, I understood that my previous love was a puddle compared to the high seas before a storm.

I have loved you for several hours now

I could feel almost my heart emptying into my pillow. Iguess the most amazing thing about crying though is that when you're in it, you think it'll go on forever but it never really lasts half what you think. Not in terms of real time.

Love turns, with little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal.

The history of all love is writ with one pen.

When we survey the whole field of religion, we find a great variety in the thoughts that have prevailed there; but the feelings on the one hand and the conduct on the other are almost always the same, for Stoic, Christian, and Buddhist saints are practically indistinguishable

articulate reasons are cogent for us only when our inarticulate feelings of reality have already been impressed in favor of the same conclusion.

Moreover, something is or seems       That touches me with mystic gleams,       Like glimpses of forgotten dreams—      Of something felt, like something here;       Of something done, I know not where;       Such as no language may declare.[228]

Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine.

One foreign observer watched the proceedings that evening with different feelings. "The river of fire flowed past the French Embassy," André François-Poncet, the ambassador, wrote, "whence, with heavy heart and filled with foreboding, I watched its luminous wake."7

Kotter and Cohen observed that, in almost all successful change efforts, the sequence of change is not ANALYZE-THINK-CHANGE, but rather SEE-FEEL-CHANGE. You're presented with evidence that makes you feel something. It might be a disturbing look at the problem, or a hopeful glimpse of the solution, or a sobering reflection of your current habits, but regardless, it's something that hits you at the emotional level.

the core of the matter is always about changing the behavior of people, and behavior change happens in highly successful situations mostly by speaking to people's feelings.

That's what sticky ideas do—they make people feel something. Change comes from feeling, not facts.

situation in itself," he said, "is neither happy nor unhappy. It's only your response to it that causes your sorrow.

She would learn over the next years that love can feel a lot of different ways, and sometimes it can hurt a lot more.

What the eyes do not see can never pain the heart.

For sorrow to which one gives voice is worth nothing if it does not touch the heart.

She supposed she must be in love. That [he] was slightly infuriating, and that she didn't mind in the slightest, might be proof of it.