Quotes about Feelings

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

So if meditation did liberate you from obedience to these feelings, it would be, in a certain sense, dispelling an illusion—the illusion you implicitly subscribe to when you follow the feeling, the illusion that the rage, and for that matter the revenge it inspires, is fundamentally "good." It turns out the feeling isn't even good in the basic sense of self-interest.

An authentic relationship means telling the truth about how we feel — and that's the kind of relationship God wants with us.

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

Love in your heart is better than gold in your hands.

A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

Anger is the only negative emotion that people all over the world usually want to keep.

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

When the individual feels, the community reels, Lenina pronounced. Well, why shouldn't it reel a bit?

How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life-it is your interpretation of what is happening.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure.