Quotes about Feelings

The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares in its joy.

Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in sorrow.

a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,

When we allow our faith to be defined by our feelings, we will be confused. Faith must have an objective standard by which it is defined—truth. In fact, when faith operates by an objective standard of truth, it will eventually dictate our emotions rather than the reverse.

I'd rather go through life feeling everything in all its intensity than feeling nothing whatsoever." Faith

Rather than avoiding a feeling, your goal should be to move toward the emotion, into it, and eventually through it.

If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart.

Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.

I am in the Aleph, the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time. I'm at a window, looking out at the world and its secret places, poetry lost in time and words left hanging in space...sentences that are perfectly understood, even when left unspoken. Feelings that simultaneously exalt and suffocate.

It's thrilling to fight for a love that's entirely unrequited. It might not be much fun. It might leave profound and lasting scars. But it's interesting—especially for a person who, for years now, has been afraid of taking risks and who has begun to be terrified by the possibility that things might change without her being able to control them. I'm not going to repress my feelings any longer. This challenge is my salvation.

Our attitudes cannot stop our feelings, but they can keep our feelings from stopping us.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.