#feeling

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly. ↗

— Matthew Quick

#feelings-of-weakness #happiness #life #literature #movie

If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#feeling #love #message-in-a-bottle #nicholas-sparks #regret

We need music the most when we’re feeling things really intensely. I think the most intense times in your life are when you’re either falling in love or losing it ↗

— Taylor Swift

#love #song #life

We felt so small with the city lights stretching forever below us, and we yelled at the top of our lungs because we were just these small humans but we felt more longing than could ever fit inside us. ↗

— Nina LaCour

#humans #life #life

For me, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them. Feel with them … ↗

— Morrie Schwartz

#feelings #life #living #talk #life

If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has allowed me to open up -- to know that there's life under the earth and that I have to let it come through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else. ↗

— Natalie Goldberg

#life

This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling ↗

— Adriana Trigiani

#life

Everything was okay today, but I am not feeling okay. I think that when the things you like go away, you die a little bit inside, and I think that it takes a long time for you to feel okay again. ↗

— Abraham M. Alghanem

#going-away #life #okay #life

I wish the army had taught us how to navigate feelings as easily as they did a starless night sky. ↗

— Sherri L. Smith

#life-lessons #life

Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it. ↗

— Mark Doty

#life #living #love #philosophy #life