Quotes about Feelings

I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things.

It's all about how you feel, not how you look

Seek first to understand, then to be understood ... Remember, unexpressed feelings never die. They are buried alive and come forth later in uglier ways. You've got to share your feelings or they'll eat your heart out.

While walking through a dark season, if we attempt to navigate our lives by what we feel, we will run aground onto the rocks. We must navigate by what we know is true no matter what we feel.

Michelle was someone who started from the heart and not the head, from experience rather than abstractions.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

love is a verb. Reactive people make it a feeling. They're driven by feelings.

My friend, love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her.

But how do you love when you don't love?" "My friend, love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Serve her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her. Are you willing to do that?

Proactive people subordinate feelings to values.

At one seminar where I was speaking on the concept of proactivity, a man came up and said, "Stephen, I like what you're saying. But every situation is so different. Look at my marriage. I'm really worried. My wife and I just don't have the same feelings for each other we used to have. I guess I just don't love her anymore and she doesn't love me. What can I do?" "The feeling isn't there anymore?" I asked.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values.