Quotes about Feeling

Love is primarily giving. It's an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first.

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

Love is not a feeling, love is a response. Love is an action.

Emotion is created by motion. Whatever you're feeling right now is related to how you're using your body.

an emotional, psychological, and behavioral condition that develops as a result of an individual's prolonged exposure to, and practice of, a set of oppressive rules—rules which prevent the open expression of feeling as well as the direct discussion of personal and interpersonal problems."2

Agape is an obedient response of availability to God, not a feeling. But, although it is not a feeling, its ultimate end is a feeling.

Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that.

For so great is the influence of probity and chastity, that all men, or almost all men, are moved by the praise of these virtues; nor is any man so depraved by vice, but he hath some feeling of honor left in him. So that, unless the devil sometimes transformed himself, as Scripture says, into an angel of light, he could not compass his deceitful purpose.

I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.

A strange feeling comes over you, when you see the silent candle burning.

Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.