Quotes About Feeling

Especially if he called me querida again.

I stood on Susan Boone's front porch, feeling lame. But then, since I've pretty much felt lame my entire life, this was no big surprise. On the other hand, usually I felt lame for no particular reason. This time I really had a reason to feel lame.

When he smiled, something strange happened to my insides. It was like they turned to liquid.

Right sensation... wrong guy.

Whatever problem the other person has, codependency involves a habitual system of thinking, feeling, and behaving toward ourselves and others that can cause us pain. Codependent behaviors or habits are self-destructive. We frequently react to people who are destroying themselves; we

wrote codependency is "an emotional, psychological, and behavioral condition that develops as a result of an individual's prolonged exposure to, and practice of, a set of oppressive rules—rules which prevent the open expression of feeling as well as the direct discussion of personal and interpersonal problems."2

To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility.

Love is an action, a participatory emotion. Whether we are engaged in a process of self-love or of loving others we must move beyond the realm of feeling to actualize love.

Most of us learn early on to think of love as a feeling. When we feel deeply drawn to someone, we cathect with them; that is, we invest feelings or emotion in them.

To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it's a decision, it's a judgement, it's a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. - Fromm

Starting with clear definitions of love, of feeling, intention and will, I no longer enter relationships with the lack of awareness that leads me to make all bonds the site for repeating old patterns.

Youth culture today is cynical about love. And that cynicism has come from their pervasive feeling that love cannot be found.

That's the woman's soul. That's her inside." My friends regarded me questioningly. "It's what can't be buried," I explained wildly and vaguely. "It's what makes you laugh or cry and love people and hate people. It's—it's feeling and thinking and—it's what can't be put in the ground.

that part of what I loved about poetry was how the distinction between fiction and nonfiction didn't obtain, how the correspondence between text and world was less important than the intensities of the poem itself, what possibilities of feeling were opened up in the present tense of reading.

Keegan: You feel at home in the world then? Broadbent: Of course. Don't you? Keegan ( from the very depths of his nature): No. John Bull's Other Island

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realize the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

In his philosophy, nothing is held to be quite true, and nothing quite false; what can be uttered has only a limited truth, and, since men must talk, we cannot blame them for not speaking the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The best we can do, according to Bradley, is to say things that are "not intellectually corrigible"—further progress is only possible through a synthesis of thought and feeling, which, when achieved, will lead to our saying nothing.

But without going to such extremes prudence may easily involve the loss of some of the best things in life. The worshipper of Dionysus reacts against prudence. In intoxication, physical or spiritual, he recovers an intensity of feeling which prudence had destroyed; he finds the world full of delight and beauty, and his imagination is suddenly liberated from the prison of every-day preoccupations

The best we can do, according to Bradley, is to say things that are 'not intellectually corrigible'—further progress is only possible through a synthesis of thought and feeling, which, when achieved, will lead to our saying nothing. Ideas have degrees of truth, greater or less according to the stage at which they come in the dialectic.

Agape is an obedient response of availability to God, not a feeling. But, although it is not a feeling, its ultimate end is a feeling.

I have realized that when you rescue your pet from a shelter, it is the most amazing feeling in the world how this animal changes your life by giving it a better one.

I'm left-handed: I can think and feel at the same time. My feminine side is very highly developed.

I don't like when a song goes from one mood to another unless it's going to be out of sight.