#feelings

There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn't. When we are objective we are subjective too. When we are neutral we are involved. When we say ‘I think’ we don't leave our emotions outside the door. To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#thoughts #science

...He wanted to hear her concerns and alleviate them, he wanted to hold her and kiss her and convince her that he would find a way to make their relationship work, no matter how hard that might be. He wanted to to make her hear his words: that he couldn't imagine a lofe without her,that his feelings for her were real. But most of all, he wanted to reassure himself that she felt the same way about him. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #imagination

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#honesty #morality #sentiments #imagination

Love those who hurt you the most, because they are probably the ones closest to you. They, too, are on a path, and just like you they are learning to walk before they can fly. Imagine of everybody you hurt in life turned their backs on you? You would be playing a hell of a lot of solitaire. Love them no matter what. ↗

— Nikki Sixx

#hurting-the-one-you-love-lessons #life #love #nikki #nikki-sixx

It's not because I don't want to hurt Delia's feelings. It's because when she is bruised, I'm the one who aches. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#hurt #love #love

I wonder why when I told him that my chest still ached even though I had finally told him how I felt, he said, "So you finally realize how I've felt these past three years?" and laughed. ↗

— Kou Yoneda

#love #requital #love

For what it’s worth: trust your feelings. I can’t promise that you’ll never get hurt again, but I can promise you the risk is worth it. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#love #risk #love

Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#emotions #feelings #god #obedience #possible

Rich said, "As your get older, feelings are harder to come by." It was so simple and poignant. ↗

— Questlove

#feelings #life #age

Now he could say for sure that he'd never known a feeling stronger than that of being at one with another person - that rare feeling of not being alone anymore. ↗

— Guillaume Musso

#love #strength #love