#feelings

When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calender that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from the chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table. I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#feelings #happiness #life #old #sadness

You cannot prove to yourself that you love God by examining your feelings toward Him. They are indefinite and they fluctuate. But just as far as you obey Him, just so far, depend upon it; you love Him. It is not natural to us sinful, ungrateful beings to prefer His pleasure to our own or to follow His way instead of our own way, and nothing, nothing but love of Him can or does make us obedient to Him. ↗

— Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

#god #love #truth #love

...no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#identity

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. ↗

— Alice Duer Miller

#contempt #defense #despised #feelings #own

She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled! ↗

— Maria Monk

#another #baptized #born #convent #dreadful

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#feelings #human #i #i am #loved

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings. ↗

— Louis Nizer

#believed #feelings #hurt #our #slow

My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it. ↗

— Olusegun Obasanjo

#faith #feelings #god #gut #human

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy. ↗

— John Ruskin

#effect #external #external things #fallacy #falseness

Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#accepting #between #black #black and white #fears