#feelings

Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#feelings #reality #imagination

My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described. ↗

— Yann Martel

#imagination

It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#flattery #love #secret-love #sense #unavowed-love

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

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

Essentially, love is the Donnie Darko of feelings: Anyone who brags, "I, like, totally get it man," is either full of crap or really, really high (or they watched the commentary on the DVD). ↗

— Andrea Lavinthal

#donnie-darko #feelings #love #life

(Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#education #feelings #sir-walter-scott #education

Sometimes you can be touched by God, but not healed. Often when this happens, he is using your pain for a greater purpose. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#hurt-feelings #life-missions #life-purpose #pain #sorrow

I think that everybody has a right to their own thoughts, their own feelings and their own private moments, if they want them. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#feelings #i #i think #moments #own

A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#course #ever-changing #feelings #find #light