All Quotes By Tag: Feelings
“If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.”
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“You might feel lost; you might feel nothing. You might feel trapped inside and locked outside of yourself at the same time.”
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“Because she knew already that this would be the thing that would end them. And that in the deepest part of her, she had known it from the beginning, like someone stubbornly ignoring a weed growing until it blocked out the light.”
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“How we feel is not who we are. We might feel like failures, but as long as we are still trying, we are not failures. We are works in progress.”
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“Sweetheart, darling, dearest, it was funny to think that these endearments, which used to sound exceedingly sentimental in movies and books, now held great importance, simple but true verbal affirmations of how they felt for each other. They were words only the heart could hear and understand, words that could impart entire pentameter sonnets in their few, short syllables.”
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“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.”
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“Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and desires expressed for others to hear, to see and to understand. We all want to matter to someone, to leave a mark. Writers just take those thoughts, feelings and desires and express them in such a way that the reader not only reads them but feels them as well.”
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“There’s nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.”
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“I believe in love at first sight…But it’s not the first moment you lay eyes on a person, it’s the moment you first seethe person they truly are.”
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“Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.”
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“As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are impoverished and broken and realize that, if we were not, we would be God. The art of gentleness toward ourselves leads to being gentle with others — and is a natural prerequisite for our presence to God in prayer.”
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“To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John’s Gospel we are told that Jesus was moved with the deepest emotions (11:33)… The gospel portrait of the beloved Child of Abba is that of a man exquisitely attuned to His emotions and uninhibited in expressing them. The Son of Man did not scorn of reject feelings as fickle and unreliable. They were sensitive antennae to which He listened carefully and through which He perceived the will of His Father for congruent speech and action.”
“The only place I ever felt at home was with you. There isn’t a place for me anywhere anymore… I’ve been evicted.”
“I have poured my heart out ….And now I am empty.”
“If you’re waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you’ll never make it.”
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