Quotes about Feelings

The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.

Throughout their friendship Deronda had been used to Hans' egotism, but he had never before felt intolerant of it: when Hans, habitually pouring out his own feelings and affairs, had never cared for any detail in return, and, if he chanced to know any, had soon forgotten it

Still — if I have read religious history aright — faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords, and it is possible — thank Heaven! — to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings. The

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Love knows nothing of order.

Tears, that could be the tone, if they weren't so easy, the true tone and tenor at last.

Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.

Believe God's word and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your Rock is Christ, and it is not the Rock which ebbs and flows, but your sea.

O aching time! O moments big as years!

You're afraid of feelings the way you're afraid of food: you're afraid that once you start, you may never stop. But the truth is, feelings are only out of control when they're not handed over for divine resolution. Given to Divine Mind, they're lifted to divine right order—where they will be appropriately felt and then appropriately dissolved. So too shall it be with food appetites, for they are mere reflections of your turmoil or peace.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality