"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." ~William Penn
"Dictum sapienti sat est - A word to a wise person is sufficient." ~Cicero Ovid Seneca

"May your pen happily writes ...™ ©Leah C Dancel

8/30/11

Quotes on FEELINGS and EMOTIONS


"A good laugh is sunshine in a house.." ~William Thackeray

"A good woman loves hard; she doesn't know any other way to love. So, when she gets a little "Emotional" as we men sometimes like to call it, it's not because she's holding back... it's because she's giving it everything she's got." -Mr. Amari Soul, Reflections Of A Man

"A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he or she who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Acknowledge the feelings and allow them and see them as part of the human condition. They are like subtle thought forms. Emotions are really subtle thought forms. And they all arise in response to something. They are reactions that come. ...you can feel how reactive your emotions are to situations. ... So you cultivate a quietness in yourself that just watches these things coming and going and arising and passing away. And you learn not to act out your emotions, but just to appreciate and allow them. That’s part of the way in which you use them spiritually." ~Ram Dass

"And there was a sea. I was not prepared for the flood of emotion which swept over me when I saw it. I was stirred to the very depths of my being – tears filled my eyes – I trembled! For a moment it seemed passionately to me that I could never leave it again." ~L.M. Montgomery

"Anger is a feeling that makes your mouth works faster than your mind." ~Evan

"Art is a process of delivering or arranging elements that appeal to the emotions of a person looking at it. It's what you feel." ~Shaquille O'Neal

“Art is a Therapeutic process to help us heal our emotions. Art Therapy is all forms of colour, creativity and expressions to explore our self worth to look at the positive aspects of life.” ~Natural Therapy, FB

"Art is the objectification of feeling." ~Herman Melville

“As your senses delight in the attractive loveliness of the earth, think of the world that is to come, that shall never know the blight of sin and death; where the face of nature will no more wear the shadow of the curse. Let your imagination picture the home of the saved, and remember that it will be more glorious than your brightest imagination can portray. ..”. ~from Becky Kay

"Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain." ~Eckhart Tolle

"Being a bookworm means having non-fictional feelings for fictional characters." ~The Bookworm's Diary

"Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.” ~Zelda Fitzgerald

"Beware of giving up too soon. Our emotions are not reliable guides." ~John Piper

"But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter." ~Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)

"Choose thoughts that give you the emotions of being alive and excited about life." ~Bryant McGill

“Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.” ~C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

"Do not allow yourself to be blinded by fear and anger. Everything is only as it is." ~Yuki Urushibara

"Don’t become who hurt you.” ~Anon

"Don't let your emotions drag you down. Let them flow through you as a gentle breeze ruffles the sea." ~I Must Be A Mermaid

"Don't wait till your deathbed to tell people how you feel. Tell them to … now." ~Anon

"Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits." ~Fulton Sheen

"Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the cast calm ocean." ~Ram Dass

"Emotions run high and sometimes logic runs low.” ~Alex Nation, frontrunner of The Bachelor 2016

"Every lesson is a widening of the mind beyond its conceptual limits; a stretching of the heart beyond its emotional boundaries." ~Gilbert 'Gibo' Teodoro, Jr

"Every pain that you learn to tolerate leaves you healthier than it found you" ~Gilbert Teodoro, Jr.

‪"Every time one laughs a nail is removed from one's coffin." ~Honduran Proverb ‬

"Expressed affection is the best of all methods to use when you want to light a glow in someone's heart and to feel it in your own." ~Ruth Stafford Peale (1906-2008)

"Fear and love are the deepest of human emotions.” ~Anon

"F-E-A-R has two meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours.” ~Zig Ziglar

"Fear leads to anger…anger leads to hate…hate leads to suffering." -Master Yoda of Star Wars The Phantom Menace.

“Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Feeling

"Feeling the oneness of yourself with all things is true love." ~Eckhart Tolle

"Feelings aren't like thoughts, they can't be changed at will." ~Dorothy Koomson

"Feelings tell you what to say. Technique gives you the tools with which to say it. Faculty lies in knowing what to do next. To know what to do next, you must master process ... an ordered step-by-step presentation of materials that presses emotional buttons in your reader, so he feels the way you want him to feel." ~Dwight Swain - Techniques of the Selling Writer

"Feelings that come back are feelings that never left." ~Frank Ocean

"Give yourself time to be sad, frustrated, and angry. Give yourself time to heal, accept, and to grow. Time doesn't erase anything, but it can provide you with enough space to be able to breathe again. And then one day you wake up and your heart has a little bit of sunshine in it." ~Anon

"How can a person who cannot be happy alone, be happy in relationship?" ~Osho

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." ~James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (Mermaids of the Lake)

"I have love in me which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If you cannot satisfy one, I will indulge in the other.” ~Mary Shelley

"I have looked into the eyes of many animals. Each time I get a special feeling. A feeling quite different from human eye contact. It is a unique feeling. It touches my heart. It affects my soul." ~A.D. Williams

"I still own my heart, which I know because it hurts so much.” ~Emilie Autumn

"I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me.” ~Joseph Gordon-Levitt

"If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay."~Imee Marcos

"If we feel hurt by others words, it is not their words that affect us, it is how we choose to interpret those words that affect us." ~James Blanchard Cisneros

"If we practice mindfulness, we always have a place to be when we are afraid." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"If you are unhappy, you will always make a relationship with an unhappy person... A miserable person tends to find a miserable partner." ~Unattributed

"If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been." ~Robert H. Schuller

“In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die; and in the long years after, they can be called up in detail, and every emotion that was stirred by them can be lived through anew; these are the tragedies of life.” ~James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." ~Frederick Nietzsche

"It's not really our body who feels pain but our mind." ~Tomas Tacit

"Judge yourself no longer. Instead thank all your ‘negative’ thoughts and emotions for showing you that what they offer you, you truly do not want." ~James Blanchard Cisneros

“Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.” ~Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

"Living sensually is pleasurably employing the senses." ~Anon

"Loneliness is a part of the human experience." ~Panache Desai

"Love is the most powerful emotion and that makes it the most dangerous.” ~Anon

"Make up your mind that nothing is more important than how I feel now, because now is everything." ~Abraham Hicks

"My emotions belong to me. I create them with myself. They arise from how I was taught to think and what I was taught to believe. How I feel is not the creation of anyone else. When I realize this, I own myself with power and courage. With laughter, willingness, self-knowing and grace." ~Robin Korth

"Not honoring your feelings is also the breeding ground for poor boundary setting; the birthplace of anger and resentment of others!" ~Newal Kto Moh

"Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings." ~Andre Maurois

"One of the best feelings in the world is knowing that your presence and absence both mean something to someone." ~Anon

"Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone." -Paul Tillich

"Our mind and emotions play a huge part in how we respond to food." ~Brett Elliott

"Pain changes people. It makes them trust less, overthink more and shut people out." ~Anon

"Pain is the passing lane where you leave the competition behind you." ~Tim Fargo

"Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in." ~ George Eliot (1819-1880)

"Poetry for me is like the mountain, like the ocean or the sky. It helps in evoking or mapping many emotions that we keep within ourselves in few lines while leaving much space for those who encounter them to form their own stories too. Without any limits or positions, It’s a freedom. It can be one word or many." ~Tenzin Choegyal, poetry ambassador

"Real love is feeling like being a part of that person's life almost isn't enough. It's more like a feeling that you would live in the same skin with them if you could and share every thought, heart beat, and emotion as one." ~Rod Cannon

“Regard fear as the kindling to build a big fire of fearlessness.” ~Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

"Revenge and hate reside in minds. Forgiveness and love reside in souls." ~A.D. Williams

"Risk-taking is part of daily life. If you do not speculate, you don't feel sorrow of losing nor feel the joy of winning. Always dare to win!" ~Alberto Ramos Rojo

“Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush every fear and to hide every pain.” ~Anon

"Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.” ~Gregory David Roberts

"Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”~G.R.R. Martin

"Stop using your energy to worry, and begin using it to believe." ~FB/MyDay,MyWay

“Strong feelings are fine; it's the overreactions that mess us up.” ~Albert Ellis, Ph.D.

"Success comes from having dreams that are bigger than your fears." ~Terry Litwiller

“Suffering cheerfully endured ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.” ~Gandhi

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.” ~Paulo Coelho, "The Alchemist"

"That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.” ~Amy Tan

"The best feeling in the whole world is watching things finally fall into place after watching them fall apart for so long." ~AgapΩ

"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts." ~Bertrand Russell

"The magnitude and bottomlessness of the pain you feel is a testament to the love you shared." ~F. Ferguson

"The more we read books, the likelier our ability to understand better the emotions of others. Read. Take advantage of the Net." ~Rafael Alunan III, 8 January 2017)

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed." ~Albert Einstein, 'The World As I See It,' 1930

"The most important skill, and power's crucial foundation, is the ability to master your emotions." ~Robert Greene

"The most painful tears are not the ones that fall from your eyes and cover your face. They’re the ones that fall from your heart and cover your soul." ~Lessons Learned in Life

"The sand and ocean water tend to take all worries and pain away." ~Janna (a single mum)

"The wisdom we gain from our pain or tragedies are important to other people, guideposts they can learn something from in life." ~George Daniel Anos

"The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing." ~Herodotus

"There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away." ~Henry Ward Beecher

"There are moments in life, when a single hug holds all the answers you need." ~Zachry K. Douglas

"... there are other kinds of emotions that are generated — emotions like anger, sadness, joy, that whole range of emotions. What one cultivates is spaciousness or an awareness that allows you to acknowledge the feelings, and it comes back to the word appreciating again." ~Ram Dass

"There is a beauty in pain. The darkness has to be faced or there is never a way to the light." ~Thomas Plummer

"Those in control of their emotions, are in control of their life." ~A.D. Williams

"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler." ~Fred Nietzsche

"To hurt is as human as to breathe.” ~J.K. Rowling

"Trust your gut. Your gut feelings are usually accurate and correct. If you truly feel there's something, chances are there is." ~from HEALTHY WAY

"We own our emotions, they don't own us." ~Susan David

"We try to hide our feelings, but we forgot that our eyes speak." ~Anon

"When emotions are in equanimity, then your life is smooth, comfortable, and at ease." ~Dr. Susan Shumsky

"When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.” ~Simon Sinek

"When the other person is being intentionally hurtful, without regard for your feelings, you always have the choice to stay silent and walk away from the conversation. There is a point where no words will calm them down, and they simply want you to join in their anger. Reciprocating their anger and adding fuel to their fire will just make things worse. Silence is always there for a moment of clarity." ~Taylor Linn

"When the storm is raging around you, when a flood of emotions is billowing up inside you, when you are about to come unwound and come undone, hear the Master speak, 'Peace, be still.'" ~Stacy L. Sanchez

"When we are feeling fearful, tense, and worried or stuck, we just need to remember we’ve been here before and we’ve always worked our way through it. We are so much stronger and so much more capable than we may think. And if you don’t believe me, just look at all you’ve already dealt with and remind yourself – you’re still here! Then fluff up those pillows and get some good sleep." ~Begin with Yes

"When you really care about someone, their mistakes never change our feelings because it is the mind that gets angry but the heart still cares." ~from Follow Your Dreams

"Whenever you depend on somebody, you can never forgive that man. He makes you dependent, he makes you feel helpless." ~Osho

"Whenever you feel sad, sit silently and allow sadness to come; don't try to escape from it. Make yourself as sad as you can. Don't avoid it..." ~Osho

“Whether religious or not, as a human being we should learn more about our system of emotion so that we can tackle destructive emotion, in order to become more calm, have more inner peace.” ~Dalai Lama

"Without healing our childhood wounds and forgiving our parents, we stay emotionally stuck at the age of our earliest wounds, repeating that suffering as adults." ~The Mind Unleashed

“Woman is a delicate creature with strong emotions who has been created by the Almighty God to shoulder responsibility for educating society and moving toward perfection. God created woman as symbol of His own beauty and to give solace to her partner and her family.” ~Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

"You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action." ~Dr. Jerome Brunner

"You try to hide your emotions, so as not to show weaknesses to others.” ~Michael Schumacher

"You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. True power is restraint. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass." ~Anon

"You’ll stop hurting when you stop hoping.” ~Guillaume Musso

"Your soul is your source of true desires and latent tendencies, longing for expression." ~Dr. Susan Shumsky


RELATED QUOTES

"Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions." ~Pablo Picasso

"Give yourself time to be sad, frustrated, and angry. Give yourself time to heal, accept, and to grow. Time doesn’t erase anything, but it can provide you with enough space to be able to breathe again. And then one day you wake up and your heart has a little bit of sunshine in it. And day by day people offer you pieces of their hearts to help remake your own. Allow yourself to be where you are at, to feel what you are feeling, and to experience everything that means. And during this process, look and listen for that glimmer of hope. It is there, I promise. And it is waiting for you to see it. Because one of the most beautiful things about humans is their capacity to heal, grow, and survive. Facing it. That is how you get through." ~Jessica Jensen

“Rain makes me feel less alone. All rain is, is a cloud- falling apart, and pouring its shattered pieces down on top of you. It makes me feel good to know I'm not the only thing that falls apart . It makes me feel better to know other things in nature can shatter.” ~Lone Alaskan Gypsy

"Root out the aggression in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others is possible." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.” ~Ben Okri

"When I question my thinking, when I am in doubt of what to do next, the best answer for me is this: Let me be kind. When kindness drives my thinking, actions and emotions, I always come through with love and a deeper understanding of myself and those share this earth with me." ~Robin Korth

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain." ~from THE PROPHET (1923) - Khalil Gibran

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