#feelings

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#friendship

As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are impoverished and broken and realize that, if we were not, we would be God. The art of gentleness toward ourselves leads to being gentle with others -- and is a natural prerequisite for our presence to God in prayer. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#faith #feelings #gentleness #impostor #prayer

My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things. ↗

— John Marsden

#imagination #memory #mind #power #spirit

I'm too intense. I feel too much. And when I experience certain sensations, I act. Even if the situation is one I should probably walk away from. But you know what?" She was feeling a little better. "I'm never going to walk away, not from any of it. I can't. I am what I am. I'm intense, just as my fiance said. I feel everything around me, and I'm glad about that. I can't imagine life without the depth, without the magic that accompanies the pain. ↗

— Tara Taylor Quinn

#feelings #experience

I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#creative #feeling #feelings #haruki-murakami #inspirational

I know I’m not supposed to say this, but I love you. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#feelings #love #sydney-sage #love

I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can't tell anyone. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#negativity #love

Do you ever think that people who find it tougher to say what they're feeling are the ones who feel things more intensely? As if they're the ones who really understand what it means to love someone? As if they have to keep their defenses high, because they care too much and have too much to lose? ↗

— Claire Cross

#expression #feelings #love

He took a step closer. "I don't know if I'll ever get you out of my system, not completely. I have this... feeling. That you'll always be there. Here." Conrad clawed at his heart and then dropped his hand. ↗

— Jenny Han

#love #love

You can’t stop loving someone if you had already fallen; all you can do is hurting yourself ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#true-love #love