Quotes About Feelings

Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin

Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

Faith is not merely "feeling good about God" but a conscious choice, even in the utter absence of feelings or external encouragements to obey His word when He says, "Trust Me." This choice has nothing to do with mood but is a deliberate act of laying hold of the character of God whom circumstances never change.

Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall to the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.

But intellect does not inform matters of the heart. Regrets

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.

I like to listen to sad music when I'm sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry is the only thing that can make you feel better.

She put her hand over her heart. Oh boy. It hurts. It's a real pain. Right here.

What she knows now is that no one is ever through with love. No one ever should be.

emotions that fuel love are ageless; they live in our heart, and therefore operate independently of our bodies.

He looks like a man who is stricken, trying not to look stricken. He

Love begins as a rhapsody and ends as a dirge.

no one is ever through with love. No one ever should be.

I am dying of a multitude of feelings

There were no formulas to account for the idiosyncratic yearnings of a human heart, no ways to extract from someone feelings that lived as matter-of-factly as blood and bones inside of him. In the end, Griffin thought, we are only who we are.

But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it?

You fell in love with me?

you can?t always choose how you love a person. Love isn?t logical or fair. It just happens.

Saint Anthony said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company.

Where did you get the idea you aren't allowed to petition the universe with prayer? You are part of this universe, Liz. You're a constituent--you have every entitlement to participate in the actions of the universe, and to let your feelings be known. So, put your opinion out there. Make your case. Believe me--it will at least be taken into consideration.

At some point I had stopped being in love with him and had fallen in love with the story of him and me instead.

The more unsettled and unbalanced we feel, the more quickly and recklessly we are likely to fall in love.

So sadness is a place? Sometimes people live there for years