Quotes about Feelings
Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling?
— Stephen Covey
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
— St. Augustine
People who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all.
— Milan Kundera
when it's a question of wahre Liebe, true love, the beloved hardly matters.
— Milan Kundera
They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.
— Edmund Burke
That our affections kill us not, nor dye.
— John Donne
Deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the skeptics, are trying to figure out how the world works and what our role in it might be. Their motives are in many cases consonant with science. If their culture has not given them all the tools they need to pursue this great quest, let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped.
— Carl Sagan
Edmund Way Teale in his 1950 book Circle of the Seasons understood the dilemma better: It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.
— Carl Sagan
My dear friend, I may be the victim of wrong perceptions, and what I write here may not reflect the truth. However, this is my experience of the situation. This is what I really feel in my heart. If there is anything wrong in what I write, let us sit down and look into it together
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Whenever a painful feeling or emotion arises, we should be able to be present with it, not fight it, but recognize it.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The Four Establishments of Mindfulness are the foundation of our dwelling place. Without them, our house is abandoned; no one is sweeping, dusting or tidying up. Our body becomes unkempt, or feelings full of suffering, and our mind a heap of afflictions. When we are truly home, our body, mind, and feelings will be a refuge for ourselves and others.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Actually, I don't hate cats, I'm just kind of afraid of them.
— Clay Aiken