Quotes about Feelings

Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.

Emotions are powerful, but they also change as quick as the wind. That's why the Lord says to renew your mind. Don't base decisions on what you feel.

What do you feel now that I'm soft clay in your hands, Michael?" "Joy," he said. "Pure joy.

He could close his eyes and recall the shouts of the crowds. So that is what they hope, he thought. And he remembered what the old Reverend Mother had said: Kwisatz Haderach. The memories touched his feelings of terrible purpose, shading this strange world

I love science fiction, but I have a hard time feeling for characters in a galaxy far away. Choosing movies is the one thing in my life where there's no compromising.

Feelings are indicators, not dictators. They can indicate where your heart is in the moment, but that doesn't mean they have the right to dictate your behavior and boss you around. You are more than the sum total of your feelings and perfectly capable of that little gift . . . called self-control.

If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.

We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right?

What would I be singing, Vicky wondered,—if I sang out my moods?

Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved. Love is people, is a person. A friend of ours, Hugh Bishop of Mirfield, says in one of his books: Love is not an emotion. It is a policy. Those words have often helped me when all my feelings were unlovely.

Gratitude goes beyond saying 'thank you'. Feelings complete the blessing

Thomas Mann writes somewhere that hatred is simply love with a minus sign placed before it.