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Quotes About Feelings

Why are you sad?" "Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings
~ Leo Tolstoy
When you feel depressed - have a cigarette or a drink or, best of all, make love, and it will pass.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Only Anna felt sad. She knew that when Dolly was gone no one would call up in her soul the feelings which had been aroused by their meeting. To have those feelings awakened was painful, but still she knew that they were the best part of her soul, and that that part of her was rapidly being choked by the life she was leading.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Simonson was one of those people, chiefly of a masculine type, whose actions follow the dictates of their reason and are determined by it. Novodvorov belonged, on the contrary, to the class of people of a feminine type, whose reason is directed partly towards the attainment of aims set by their feelings, partly to the justification of acts instigated by their feelings.
~ Leo Tolstoy
You're powers are tied to your emotions, all you have to do is focus.
~ Leo Wyatt
Marriage is the wastepaper basket of the emotions.
~ Leon Botstein
Research suggests when it comes to understanding our feelings, we humans have an odd mix of low ability and high confidence.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
He could hear the exact moment an argument frayed, when it became about feelings, still pretending to be facts.
~ Leone Ross
To sing is the most human of the art form delivery, more than, perhaps, an instrument which has to be tuned mechanically. You are the tuner; you are the vessel. Everything depends on how you feel as a person. It is for you to hear how beautiful your instrument is. From you to you with much, much love. That way you can send it out to the public because they make the careers. Once they accept you and your freedom to be and your love for singing they never leave you. There is no love like that.
~ Leontyne Price
You know that feeling. When you like a boy but then he starts to like you and you stop liking him.
~ Lesley Arfin
I was trying to understand my grandmother feelings. Why, when I looked at and held the baby, I felt I was floating, that I was on a high.... I keep wanting to burst into song! So I wasn't crazy, & I wasn't alone. When a grandmother holds the baby, her brain, like a new mother's, can also be drenched in the bonding hormone oxytocin. Aha! There it was. We grandmas literally, actually fall in love.
~ Lesley Stahl
And I discovered Norton's anthology of poetry in the patients' library – it changed my life. I read the poems over and over again before I began to grasp their meanings. It wasn't just that the words were musical notes my eyes could sing. It was the discovery that women and men, long dead, had left me messages about their feelings, emotions I could compare to my own. I had finally found others who were as lonely as I was. In an odd way, that knowledge comforted me.
~ Leslie Feinberg
Emotions are seen as crucial in motivating behavior. People generally do what they feel like doing rather than what reason or logic dictates. It follows that to achieve behavioral change, people need to change the emotions motivating their behavior. Emotion also influences thought. When people feel angry, they think angry thoughts; when they are sad, they recall sad memories. To help people change what they think, therapists must help them change what they feel.
~ Leslie S. Greenberg
Our emotions always serve a purpose, like the warning lights on a car dashboard. Ignoring them doesn't make them go away, and often ignoring our feelings only makes the problem worse.
~ Leslie Vernick
Many of us, like Sandra, are under the impression "that if we don't feel something there can be no authenticity in doing it. But the wisdom of God says something different, namely, that we can act ourselves into a new way of feeling much quicker than we can feel ourselves into a new way of acting."5 Choosing to act right when you don't feel like it isn't hypocrisy; it's obedience.
~ Leslie Vernick
Selfishness isn't characterized by knowing how you feel or what you want; selfishness is when you demand that other people always cater to your feelings, your wants, and your needs.
~ Leslie Vernick
Women's emotions are still fitted for a kind of society that no longer exists. My deep emotions, my real ones, are to do with my relationship with a man. One man. But I don't live that kind of life, and I know few women who do. So what I feel is irrelevant and silly.
~ lessing doris ii
Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down.
~ Lester Bangs
Believe God's Word and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your
~ Lettie B. Cowman
You love and you hate and you grieve and you don't even feel it.
~ Lev Grossman
Magic was wild feelings, the kind that escaped out of you and into the world and changed things. There was a lot of skill to it, and a lot of learning, and a lot of work, but that was where the power began: the power to enchant the world.
~ Lev Grossman
He was unexpectedly happy, though he instinctively kept it a secret.
~ Lev Grossman
He showed her a wonderful garden, where all the thoughts and feelings that had ever been thought and felt existed in the form of plants, blooming and green as they passed through people's minds and lived in their hearts, and then drying up and turning brown and crisp as they passed out of mind, sometimes to bloom again in another season, sometimes gone forever.
~ Lev Grossman
Language and reality are kept strictly apart—reality is tough, unyielding stuff, and it doesn't care what you think or feel or say about it. Or it shouldn't.
~ Lev Grossman