#feelings

Living with life is very hard. Mostly we do our best to stifle life - to be tame or to be wanton. to be tranquillised or raging. Extremes have the same effect; they insulate us from the intensity of life. And extremes - whether of dullness or fury - successfully prevent feeling. I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies - unconscious strategies- to keep those feelings away. We do a feelings-swap, where we avoid feeling sad or lonely or afraid or inadequate, and feel angry instead. It can work the other way, too - sometimes you do need to feel angry, not inadequate; sometimes you do need to feel love and acceptance, and not the tragic drama of your life. It takes courage to feel the feeling - and not trade it on the feelings-exchange, or even transfer it altogether to another person. You know how in couples one person is always doing all the weeping or the raging while the other one seems so calm and reasonable? I understood that feelings were difficult for me although I was overwhelmed by them. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#avoidance #feelings #inadequate #life #living-life

Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others ↗

— Roland Merullo

#hurt-feelings #hurting #inspiration #funny

ليس السن هي مابلغه أحدنا من العمر ، بل مايشعر به ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#feelings #novel #old #age

My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

#decided #enter #feelings #getting #holidays

Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution. ↗

— Bill Condon

#galileo #himself #identify #kinsey #moments

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts? ↗

— Confucius

#beasts #distinguish #feelings #respect #without

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#controls #feelings #much #reason #rule

I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience. ↗

— David Coverdale

#been #certainly #display #feelings #heart

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better. ↗

— Anna Held

#care #feelings #find #i #personal

Showing young children in these communities, that there are outlets for their feelings, that there is room in a space for their stories to be told, and that they will be applauded - and it's not about ego, it's about connection: that their pain is everybody else's pain. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#applauded #children #communities #connection #ego