Best Quotes About Feelings (Top 100)
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Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
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In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
Jane Austen
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
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A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein
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It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
Marilyn Monroe
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People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.
Jim Morrison
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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Abraham Lincoln
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
Anais Nin
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Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
Ernest Hemingway
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I get a warm feeling among my books.
Anthony Powell
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We think too much and feel too little.
Charlie Chaplin
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Anais Nin
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I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
Marilyn Monroe
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You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
Pearl S. Buck
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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.
Sigmund Freud
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
Mark Twain
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The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.
Che Guevara
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Thomas Hardy
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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
William Wordsworth
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All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get on with your life.
Candace Bushnell
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I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
Audre Lorde
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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
Ray Bradbury
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The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
M. Scott Peck
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I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities ... my feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance ... everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaised, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together?
Adolf Hitler
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You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.
Kazuo Ishiguro
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde
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My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.
Dejan Stojanovic
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To err is human, but it feels divine.
Mae West
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If you're feeling helpless, help someone.
Aung San Suu Kyi
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My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God's word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth.
John Piper
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It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
Henry Rollins
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Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.
Dave Barry
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I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.
Amy Tan
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As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you smile, even if you’re feeling bad, the action of the muscles will trick your brain into thinking you’re happy
Candace Bushnell
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Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
William Arthur Ward
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally
Oscar Wilde
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It's the loneliest feeling in the world-to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down. To have everybody look at you and say, 'What's the matter with him?' I know. I know what it feels like. Walking down an empty street, listening to the sound of your own footsteps. Shutters closed, blinds drawn, doors locked against you. And you aren't sure whether you're walking toward something, or if you're just walking away.
Robert E. Lee
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If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
William James
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I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.
Robert E. Lee
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Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
Emily Post
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I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.
Adolf Eichmann
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To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling
Alfred Adler
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Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
Dan Millman
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It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.
Dejan Stojanovic
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I felt it shelter to speak to you.
Emily Dickinson
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The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.
Pete Wentz
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It is impossible to bring more into your life if you are feeling ungrateful about what you have. Why? Because the thoughts and feelings you emit as you feel ungrateful are all negative emotions.
Rhonda Byrne
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Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.
George Sand
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Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.
Amit Ray
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One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.
Stella Gibbons
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.
Denis Diderot
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You are not happy because you are well. You are well because you are happy. You are not depressed because trouble has come to you, but trouble has come to you because you are depressed. You can change your thoughts and feelings, and then the outer things will come to correspond, and indeed there is no other way of working.
Emmet Fox
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Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.
Judith Butler
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere,there's somebody nobody knows about
Alfred Hitchcock
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Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Jim Morrison
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Do not to let your feelings (very natural and usual ones) of momentary irritation and discomfort be seen by others don't (as you so often did and do) let every little feeling be read in your face and seen in your manner . . .
Queen Victoria
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This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected—in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
Thomas Mann
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Maybe this is just me, because my priorities have changed as I've gotten older. But now I don't want to be "sort of dating' someone. I don't want to be "kinda hanging out' with someone. I don't want to spend a lot of energy suppressing all my feelings so I appear uninvolved. I want to be involved.
Greg Behrendt
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Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Feeling in love (or lust) and fear feel a lot alike. They both give you that anxious butterfly feeling in your stomach, a sense of excitement, and a general unease physically and mentally. It's easy to confuse love with fear.
Greg Behrendt
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
John Berger
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First feelings are always the most natural.
Louis XIV
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If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'
Jeff Foxworthy
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I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself
Roald Dahl
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It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
Edgar Cayce
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What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.
Albert Einstein
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No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal. And music has always been a great way to make people aware of that connection. It can help you open up a part of yourself and express feelings you didn't know you were feeling. It's risky to let that happen. But it's a risk you have to take-because only then will you find you're not alone.
Josh Groban
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One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers...
Heinrich Hertz
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I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.
Katharine Hepburn
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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale
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I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Pietro Aretino
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
Jackson Pollock
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If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.
Albert Ellis
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It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.
Kurt Cobain
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I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience
Douglas Coupland
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Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, "For my sake, the entire world was created."
Baal Shem Tov
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I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action
Philip Larkin
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Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later
Bono
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Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
John Wooden
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Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.
Ingmar Bergman
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The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.
Constantin Stanislavski
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Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.
Gillian Anderson
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In sorting out my feelings and beliefs, there is, however, one piece of moral ground of which I am absolutely certain: if I were to be murdered I would not want my murderer executed. I would not want my death avenged. Especially by government—which can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.
Helen Prejean
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Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
John Lydon
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Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
Edward Steichen
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All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people to exceed what they had just accomplished; it was simply feeling so complete.
John Irving
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Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
Mikhail Lermontov
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We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Charles R. Swindoll
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Squint your eyes and look closer I'm not between you and your ambition I am a poster girl with no poster I am thirty-two flavors and then some And I'm beyond your peripheral vision So you might want to turn your head Cause someday you might find you're starving and eating all of the words you said.
Ani DiFranco
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My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.
Duffy Daugherty
Even More Feelings Quotes
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To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.
Karen Horney
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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.
Eduard Hanslick
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I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.
Dylan Thomas
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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.
Andrew Wyeth
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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.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.
Willie Dixon
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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?
Bret Easton Ellis
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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.
Bertolt Brecht
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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.
Arnold Schoenberg
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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
Trey Parker
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Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.
Rex Harrison
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How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
Claude Debussy
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Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.
Karl Lagerfeld
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund Burke
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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.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.
Lena Horne
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It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.
Harry Stack Sullivan
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Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
Alfred Adler
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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.
Chris Hadfield
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If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
Les Brown
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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.
Alfie Kohn
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Fashion is about good energy. It's about feelings. That's what I have to give the people, good energy and good feelings.
Adriana Lima
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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.
Murasaki Shikibu
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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.
Frank Sinatra
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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.
Pete Doherty
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Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless
Hugh Laurie
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Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.
Robert Cialdini
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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.
Jessica Stern
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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.
James A. Garfield
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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.
Robert Hughes
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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.
Jack Johnson
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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.
Nicole Krauss
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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.
Geoffrey Fisher
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Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.
Richard Linklater
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it."
Siri Hustvedt
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
Herbert Spencer
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God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
Chanakya
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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.
Keith Sweat
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Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.
Evan Esar
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I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.
Jackson Pollock
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Feeling beautiful has nothing to do with what you look like. I promise.
Emma Watson
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The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
Mencius
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Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can't feel pain, you aren't gonna feel anything else, either.
Judith Guest
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Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.
Josh Groban
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Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.
David Deutsch
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Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
Charlotte Bront
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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.
Judith Wright
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I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.
Ani DiFranco
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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.
Maxine Hong Kingston
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Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.
Helen Gurley Brown
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Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
Carol Ann Duffy
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Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
Confucius
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Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
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Better to be without logic than without feeling.
Charlotte Bronte
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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.
John Bradshaw
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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.
Boyd Rice
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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.
Billy Gibbons
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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.
Ana Castillo
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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.
Steven Brust
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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.
Anthony Bourdain
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A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there
Alanis Morissette
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My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
Olive Schreiner
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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.
Sakyong Mipham
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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.
Hilary Mantel
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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?
Alfred de Vigny
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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.
Alice Hoffman
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...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.
Brenda Ueland
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Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.
Charles Kingsley
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The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Elisabeth Foley
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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.
Alicia Silverstone
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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.
Isabel Briggs Myers
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A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
Anne Stevenson
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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.
Chris Hardwick
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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.
Carson McCullers
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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.
Gillian Anderson
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An occasional foray into negative emotions makes feeling normal that much sweeter.
Brandon Mull
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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.
Nicole Krauss
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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.
William Faulkner
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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.
Elisabeth Shue
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That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters.
Mort Sahl
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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.
Alexander Herzen
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I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.
Dorothy Allison
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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.
Martin Buber
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Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.
Guy Finley
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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.
Bessie Head
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Samuel Johnson
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The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
Madame de Stael
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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.
Bob Burg
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I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.
Dean Acheson
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One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Anita Brookner
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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.
Larry Dossey
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Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.
Thom Gunn
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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.
Don McCullin
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I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.
Alfred Sisley
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Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
John Sterling
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...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.
Patrick O'Brian
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It is because they are so strong that she hides her feelings.
John Christopher
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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
Dick Francis
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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.
Oscar Hammerstein II
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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.
Chen Shui-bian
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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.
Bruno Schulz
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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.
Cathy Guisewite
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I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
Frank Moore Colby
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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.
Buddha
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[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.
Countee Cullen
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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.
Mel Brooks
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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.
Jan Karon
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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, âI should do it. If I don’t do it, no one will do it for me.
David Grossman
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There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.
Dean Young
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I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.
Catherine Deneuve
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Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
Robert Orben
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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Sometimes kids just act impulsively, but it's because we have strong feelings, not because we're trying to make trouble.
James Howe
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I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I'm happy again.
Arthur Freed
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Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
Barry Mann
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Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.
Ernesto Che Guevara
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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.
Will Self
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Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music.
Peter Steele
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Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.
Keith Sweat
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
Joseph Joubert
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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
Eduard Hanslick
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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.
Audrey Tautou
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Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
Louise Bogan
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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,
Jim Dine
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Feelings change fast when you're a teenager.
Jacquelyn Mitchard
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I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.
Art Garfunkel
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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.
Mark Van Doren
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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.
John Travolta
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No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal.
Josh Groban
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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.
Jim Courier
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Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
Tryon Edwards
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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.
Nicholas Sparks
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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.
Vince Carter
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
Agnes Martin
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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.
Bill O'Reilly
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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.
Anne Parillaud
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My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble.
Bill Rodgers
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The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
Marianne Faithfull
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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.
Vernon Howard
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I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.
Kenneth Koch
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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.
Kenneth Clark
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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!
Camille Claudel
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Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.
David Seabury
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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.
Judith Jamison
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It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion.
Edmondo De Amicis
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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.
John H. Groberg
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I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
Cybill Shepherd
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People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel.
Irwin Federman
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Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.
Hannah More
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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.
Brenda Ueland
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I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.
Bonnie Raitt
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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.
Norman Vincent Peale
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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.
Leelee Sobieski
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It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry.
Joe Moore
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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.
Arthur Erickson
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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.
James Howe
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Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
Jacques Barzun
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We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.
Louis Nizer
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anyone who has no feelings for animals has a dead heart.
Raegan Butcher
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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!
Samuel Rogers
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It's the most amazing feeling to hold your child in your arms.
Chris O'Donnell
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The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
Mary Stewart
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Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.
Archibald MacLeish
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Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.
Sarah Josepha Hale
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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.
Enya
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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
Barbara Walters
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The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
Walter Benjamin
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Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it.
Andrei Platonov
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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.
Napoleon Hill
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Hope ... is not a feeling; it is something you do.
Katherine Paterson
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Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.
C.S. Lewis
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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.
Andrew Schneider
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Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
Robert Burton
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He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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And all that you are sorry for is what you haven't done.
Margaret Widdemer
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The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
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They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Carl W. Buechner
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It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
Elizabeth Bowen
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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.
Greg Anderson
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Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell
Jean Paul Richter
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One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
Henry Miller
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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.
Bertrand Russell
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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.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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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.
George Eliot
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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.
Billy Barty
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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.
Chris Van Allsburg
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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
Michelangelo
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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
Jim Rohn
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All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
Charles Henry Parkhurst
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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.
Benjamin Haydon
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The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
Marianne Moore
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The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.
E. M. Forster
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Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.
David Borenstein
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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.
Jonathan Coe
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Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.
Alice Duer Miller
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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.
Lawrence Clark Powell
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A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
Louisa May Alcott
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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.
Clark Moustakas
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Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.
Joan Rivers
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Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
Alice Miller
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I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
Kyle Schmidt
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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.
Andre Dawson
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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.
Brad Bird
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In reality, we are still children. We want to find a playmate for our thoughts and feelings.
Wilhelm Stekel
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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 . . .
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Elisabeth Shue