#feel

Feelings are wonderful decorations, but they are not a foundation to build on. ↗

Sometimes pain and hurt are good things because it means you strived for something in your life. ↗

#life-experience #love-hurts #pain #experience

Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness", "joy", or "regret". Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that is oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#language #patriarchal #words #experience

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#age #always #been #feel #i

Lord Peter was hampered in his career as a private detective by a public school education. Despite Parker's admonitions, he was not always able to discount it. His mind had been warped in its young growth by "Raffles" and "Sherlock Holmes," or the sentiments for which they stand. He belonged to a family which had never shot a fox. 'I am an amateur,' said Lord Peter ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#mystery #education

Humans cannot fly, but they can get the flying feeling. All they need to do is go out at night into a wild storm where the thunder roars like applause and the lightning throws itself in daggers of light at your bare feet and you suddenly find you are not afraid. ↗

— Hilary McKay

#family

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#feel #god #i #i can #into

That really pissed me off, because I am worth it, goddamn it!” “I know you—” “Still talking here! ↗

— Robin L. Rotham

#hurt-feelings #lovers #makeup #humor

There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart. ↗

— Cynthia Hand

#feelings #heart #inspiration #love #beauty

In one moment I was feeling everything and I was feeling nothing. ↗