Feelings Quotes

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.

I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.

I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.

Each individual composes the music of his own life. If he injures another, he brings disharmony. When his sphere is disturbed, he is disturbed himself, and there is a discord in the melody of his life. If he can quicken the feeling of another to joy or to gratitude, by that much he adds to his own life; he becomes himself by that much more alive. Whether conscious of it or not, his thought is affected for the better by the joy or gratitude of another, and his power and vitality increase thereby, and the music of his life grows more in harmony.

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.

I keep feeling that people are becoming less human and more animalistic. They seem to think less and feel less so that everyone is operating on a very primitive level. I wonder what you and I will see in our lifetimes. It seems so hopeless yet we must keep on trying ... I guess we can't escape being a product of the times, can we?

We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved,it would be much simpler, but much less magical

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

In my experience, fear comes from not knowing what to expect and not feeling you have any control over what’s about to happen. When you feel helpless, you’re far more afraid than you would be if you knew the facts.

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

Fashion is about good energy. It's about feelings. That's what I have to give the people, good energy and good feelings.

How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.

It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority. Especially one-sided persons are troublesome. Few are accomplished in many arts and most cling narrowly to their own opinion.

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

I'm not going to be hardened by these people, to these things, I'm not going to let them destroy my feelings or my emotions.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It's not something that committees can do. It's not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It's done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world.

Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.

Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterward. A friend of mine, a soldier, put it this way. In most of our lives, most of the time, you have a sense of what is to come. There is a steady narrative, a feeling of "lights, camera, action" when big events are imminent. But trauma isn't like that. It just happens, and then life goes on. No one prepares you for it.

I want to turn the whole thing upside down I'll find the things they say just can't be found I'll share the love I find with everyone We'll sing and dance to Mother Nature's song I don't want this feeling to go away.

When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn't control what came through it.

My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring.

Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it."

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.

I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.

The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.

Feeling beautiful has nothing to do with what you look like. I promise.

Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can't feel pain, you aren't gonna feel anything else, either.

Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.

Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.

I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.

The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.

Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

To be shame-bound means that whenever you feel any feeling, need or drive, you immediately feel ashamed. The dynamic core of your human life is grounded in your feelings, needs and drives. When these are bound by shame, you are shamed to the core.

When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It seems at times like a movie you’re walking through, more a spectator than a participant. There is above all a lack of empathy with most of mankind, a sense of detachment. But with detachment comes perspective. The less you care, the more you know, and the more you know the less you care.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

There’s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that you’re alive. It’s almost like we’re mad because we’ve been shocked out of our usual comatose state of being by feeling something for someone, for ourselves, for just a moment.

Most people seem to take pleasure in feeling superior to someone. I'm not like that, which pleases me because it makes me feel superior.

Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there

When the mind is totally present, it is relaxed, nimble, and sensitive. It feels lighter and clearer. It notices everything, but it is not distracted by anything. It is the feeling of knowing exactly where you are and what you are doing.

There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the shaft of an axe when you take it into your hand. You can strike, or you can not strike, and if you choose to hold back the blow, you can still feel inside you the resonance of the omitted thing.

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.

Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?

I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I got that sort of attention in my real life. Because in my real life, I'm this weird, dorky girl who just hangs out with her dog.

Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

Introverted feeling types have a wealth of warmth and enthusiasm, but they may not show it until they know someone well. They wear their warm side inside, like a fur-lined coat.

It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right. Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.

When you don't take an aggressive role in shaping your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, you become a helpless passenger floating through the universe like a ghost ship, merely reacting to wherever it takes you.

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and the lives of their young daughters. That's a great feeling.

An occasional foray into negative emotions makes feeling normal that much sweeter.

Sometimes I get the feeling that we're just a bunch of habits. The gestures we repeat over and over, they're just our need to be recognized. Without them, we'd be unidentifiable. We have to reinvent ourselves every minute.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.

That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters.

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.

It seemed to be a makeshift replacement for love, absenting oneself from stifling atmospheres, because love basically was a torrential storm of feeling; it thrived only in partnership with laughing generosity and truthfulness.

Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love. That is no metaphor, but the actual truth. Love does not cling to the I in such a way as to have the Thou only for its " content," its object; but love is between I and Thou. The man who does not know this, with his very being know this, does not know love; even though he ascribes to it the feelings he lives through, experiences, enjoys, and expresses.

Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

The most successful network marketers I know, the ones receiving tons of referrals and feeling truly happy about themselves, continually put the other person's needs ahead of their own.

One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

Become a good noticer. Pay attention to the feelings, hunches, and intuitions that flood your life each day. If you do, you will see that premonitions are not rare, but a natural part of our lives.

I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.

Logic doesn't stop you feeling. You can behave logically and it can hurt like hell. Or it can comfort you. Or release you. Or all at the same time

Even in the depths of sleep, in which he had to satisfy his need for protection and love by curling himself up into a trembling ball, he could not rid himself of the feeling of loneliness and homelessness.

It is because they are so strong that she hides her feelings.

When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feeling sad, I simply remember my favorite things and then I don't feel so bad.

...I have had such a sickening of men in masses, and of causes, that I would not cross this room to reform parliament or prevent the union or to bring about the millennium. I speak only for myself, mind - it is my own truth alone - but man as part of a movement or a crowd is indifferent to me. He is inhuman. And I have nothing to do with nations, or nationalism. The only feelings I have - for what they are - are for men as individuals; my loyalties, such as they may be, are to private persons alone.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976.

[W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro is about to sing. So often the request has seemed to savor of the feeling that we could do this and this alone.

Feeling different, feeling alienated, feeling persecuted, feeling that the only way to deal with the world is to laugh - because if you don't laugh you're going to cry and never stop crying - that's probably what's responsible for the Jews having developed such a great sense of humor. The people who had the greatest reason to weep, learned more than anyone else how to laugh.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

I like to do things that frighten me. When I’m afraid, I understand more things. I want the feeling... All my instincts cry out against it, every morning anew. Then I say, ‘I should do it. If I don’t do it, no one will do it for me.

I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.

There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.

I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I'm happy again.

Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.

Sometimes kids just act impulsively, but it's because we have strong feelings, not because we're trying to make trouble.

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

The cynics are correct the sense of freewill is only that feeling which we have when we take the necessitated option that most appeals to us.

Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

Feelings change fast when you're a teenager.

Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely, with flair and feeling.

I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.

I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.

My life is really a history of observing forms and taking in imagery. I don't mean in a photographic way, I mean in a way of feeling them structurally,

The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.

I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on.

Like her father, he wasn't comfortable sharing his thoughts and feelings. She tried to explain that she needed to be closer to him, but it had never seemed to make a difference.

Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.

At the end of the day, every child has learned the Lesson of Spin: Almost every wrong action can be stripped of consequences, along with the need for feelings of guilt and remorse.

My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble.

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.

I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest!

I felt the naivete of a child in my dancing. I cherished that feeling. I had what I call a knowledgeable naivete, and it worked for me.

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion.

We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed in feeling sorry for ourselves) behind. If we leave a place and take our selfishness with us, the cycle of problems starts all over again no matter where we go. But if we leave our selfishness behind, no matter where we are, things start to improve.

People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel.

Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.

I was being honest - I have nothing to hide. All I do, all the time, with everybody, is tell them what I am thinking, what I am feeling.

It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry.

There is that American pastime known as "kidding" - with the result that everyone is ashamed and hangdog about showing the slightest enthusiasm or passion or sincere feeling about anything.

I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.

anyone who has no feelings for animals has a dead heart.

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

Crying can help, too. People are often afraid to cry because they are told that crying is for babies. Crying does not make you a baby, no matter what anyone says. There are times when people feel so bad that they can't express their feelings in words. At those times, crying helps.

The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.

The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before!

It's the most amazing feeling to hold your child in your arms.

Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

I find it hard to work with other musicians because I know from experience that when they play, they play with their feeling, and that restricts me because I know I want to play in my own particular way.

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

Hope ... is not a feeling; it is something you do.

Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it.

Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.

I just have this feeling if I take pi, well past all this static, take pi to 10 million, 20 million digits, that I'll find something really incredible. Not just a pattern, not just an order, but a sign. A mathematical sign.

The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

And all that you are sorry for is what you haven't done.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.

It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell

I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.

For many weeks after [my wife] died, I could not get used to the feeling of coldness and lifelessness on her side of the bed - and it was even worse when they took the body away and buried her.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

I have a feeling that we have been placed on this earth for a special reason and although I have not fulfilled all my missions, I am trying.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best.

The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.

One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.

Even in hand drawn animation, humans are widely considered to be the most difficult to execute, because everybody has a feeling for how they move.

The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.

Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.

No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.

In reality, we are still children. We want to find a playmate for our thoughts and feelings.

The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects . . .

With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause — a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.

The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is, he is perceptive, he is feeling, and he has the power to express in language what he observes and reacts to.

Sadness, joy, wonder - all feelings come from a place of grounded strength that comes from trust in yourself. We spend so much time trying to control our feelings out of fear that something may happen, that somebody may not love us, or walk away or die. It's only when you stop living in that fear of what other people might do to you or how they will react, only then are you free to be alive.

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.