Quotes About Feeling

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Misery loves company, but today . . . today misery wanted to be alone.

being entranced by the ego prevents us from feeling pain; in fact, it prevents us from feeling anything—ecstasy, grief, compassion, anger, shame, love—from feeling alive.

That spring, Amelia takes Maya to the drugstore and lets her choose any polish color she likes. "How do you pick?" Maya says. "Sometimes I ask myself how I'm feeling," Amelia says. "Sometimes I ask myself how I'd like to be feeling.

Dancing was a kind of surrender to feeling, to sound, to the present" -Anya

If this were Raymond Carver, you'd offer me some meager comfort and darkness would set in and all this would be over. But this . . . is feeling more like a novel to me after all. Emotionally, I mean.

What else is a poem about? The rhythm and the images buried in the language. All the ways you can build an emotion with words, but you can't just write 'I feel sad.' I mean, you can, but it's not poetry... I think it has to be experienced instead of studied. You step into it.

What can I tell you? My heart has selective hearing.

Repentance, contrary to popular misconception, is not a heroic first step I make toward Christ, nor is it a feeling-sorry-for my sins. It is the divine gift of being turned toward truth. William Willimon

Every action, thought, and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect.

You cannot find your soul with your mind, you must use your heart. You must know what you are feeling. If you don't know what you are feeling, you will create unconsciously.

When the gods know that a god hath fallen, With this kindly feeling They do encourage him-- Be thou a god again and again.

The strangeness of that: the feeling that you, or rather I, are at once dreaming and remembering and simultaneously doing something as if for the first time. That

I never sensed the feeling of killing as such, only a feeling of stopping something terrible from happening, a compulsion to squeeze the person by the throat to relieve and absolve him and me from something terrible.

how far was a feeling genuine if it did not find expression in an external act?

Chi può dirci dove si trova il confine tra la pazzia e la ragione? Dove la mente umana cessa di essere ordinata? Dove comincia e dove finisce la facoltà di sentire e di discernere tra il dolore autentico e quello dovuto solo all'autosuggestione, tra la vera gioia e quella fittizia?

With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt... because love is an amazing feeling.

Yes, I believe every environment has a tone. If you were to walk into any home as a stranger, not speaking the language, you could absolutely feel whether this is a place where people are loved.

The challenge with activating our reward circuits is that the pleasure fades. The feeling of reward is short-lived. Think

It has been said that life is a tragedy to those who think and a comedy to those who feel.

The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.

There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards.

You can tell you're alive when somebody touches you back.

For the first time in my life a feeling of overpowering stinging melancholy seized me. Before, I had never experienced aught but a not-unpleasing sadness. The bond of a common humanity now drew me irresistibly to gloom.