Quotes about Feelings
There's a big difference between feeling thankful and giving thanks. One response involves emotions, the other, your will. Trusting God has nothing to do with trustful feelings.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Gratitude is what you feel. Thanksgiving is what you do.
— Timothy Keller
Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.
— Napoleon Hill
But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem. I long to ride a bike, dance, whistle, look at the world, feel young and know that I'm free, and yet I can't let it show.
— Anne Frank
Believe me, if you've been shut up for a year and a half, it can get to be too much for you sometimes. But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.
— Anne Frank
When I feel like shoveling in food, the emptiness can be filled only with love (April 2012, O Magazine)
— Anne Lamott
You don't have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don't have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.
— Joyce Meyer
Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
— Audre Lorde
Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.
— George Eliot
Our good depends on the quality and breadth of our emotions.
— George Eliot