| "It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others." »Sydney Harris |
| "Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him." »William Carleton |
| "It only hurts your feelings if its true." »- Karli |
| "Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge." »Audre Lorde |
| "Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect." »Herbert Spencer |
| "Love God and trust your feelings. Be loyal to them. Don't betray them." »Robert C. Pollock |
| "feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions." »David Borenstein |
| "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 |
| "I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings." »Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| "A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later." »Stanley Kubrick |
| "I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of." »Jane Austen |
| "There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power." »William Henry Harrison |
| "Once in a while you meet someone, and soon you both discover the two of you are truly something special to each other... you share your thoughts and feelings so relaxed, so openly, and right away you know your friendship's truly meant to be." »Gary Harrington |
| "We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts." »Henry Ward Beecher |
| "It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feelings." »Bronwyn Davies |
| "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 |
| "Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others." »Marquis de Sade |
| "Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards -- the things we live by and teach our children -- are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings." »Walt Disney |
| "Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be." »Anton Chekhov |
| "You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results." »Florence Nightingale |
| "Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings." »Felix Frankfurter |
| "It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem-and in my esteem age is not estimable." »George Gordon Byron |
| "When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language." »James Earl Jones |
| "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." »Etty Hilsum |
| "feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible--the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nuturing family." »Virginia Satir |
| "God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them." »Stanley Lindquist |
| "One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates." »Helen Keller |
| "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." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
| "It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery." »Bertrand Russell |
| "A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, 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 us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." »Albert Einstein |
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