#feeling

Conversation, to take another example, is one of the common pleasures of life, but not all conversation is pleasurable. The stutterer finds talking painful, and the listener is equally pained. Persons who are inhibited in expressing feeling are not good conversationalists. Nothing is more boring than to listen to a person talk in a monotone without feeling. We enjoy a conversation when there is a communication of feeling. We have pleasure in expressing our feelings, and we respond pleasurably to another person's expression of feeling. The voice, like the body, is a medium through which feeling flows, and when this flow occurs in an easy and rhythmic manner, it is a pleasure both to the speaker and listener. ↗

— Alexander Lowen

#emotion #feeling #pleasure #communication

When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don't feel that I'm being brave. It can take much more courage to express true feelings to one person. [...] In spite of the risks, the courage to be honest and intimate opens the way to self-discovery. It offers what we all want, the promise of love. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#feelings #love #self-discovery #courage

I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only moderately moved. I almost never cry. It's not that I'm stronger than the ones with teary eyes, I'm weaker. They have courage. When all you are is skin and bones, feelings are a brave thing. I'm more of a coward. The difference is minimal though, I just use my strength not to cry. When I do allow myself a feeling, I take the part that hurts and bandage it up with a story that doesn't cry, that doesn't dwell on homesickness. ↗

— Herta Müller

#feelings #homesickness #sadness #courage

All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get on with your life. ↗

— Candace Bushnell

#disappointment #feelings #life #men #numb

Ask yourself, does this person make me feel good about myself? Do I feel safe, strong and free with this person? Those are the questions you need to ask....You have to be strong to truly be open. ↗

— April Sinclair

#dating-advice #feelings #relationships #dating

Do what others do not do, Believe in what others do not believe, Feel what others cant feel, Become what others cannot be ↗

— Yan Antropov

#etc #feeling #inspiration #life #dreams

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. ↗

— Ingmar Bergman

#conscience #dark #deep #deep down #directly

After each dream, Frankie woke with a start, soaked in tears. But she found no relief in the peaceful silence of her room, because there everything was real. And the guilt was too immense to bear. Each time she opened her eyes, she'd quickly shut them. And wish that she had woken up for the very last time. ↗

— Lisi Harrison

#guilt #mistakes #passive-deathwish #regret #remorse

The moment when you dream of someone deeply at night and in the morning you see that person staring and smiling at you. For me there is no word to express that feeling. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#staring #dreams

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#feelings #film #i #i think #map