#feelings

Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion...Life on its own, without art to shape it, leaves you in confusion and chaos, but aesthetic emotion harmonizes what you know with what you feel to give you a heightened awareness and a sureness of your place in reality. ↗

— Robert McKee

#art #awareness #chaos #confusion #emotion

Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#feelings #reading #thoughts #time

The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#fall

That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood. ↗

— Alexandra Adornetto

#feelings #human #church

If sexuality is one dimension of our ability to live passionately in the world then in cutting off our sexual feelings we diminish our overall power to feel know and value deeply. ↗

— Judith Plaskow

#passion #power #sexuality #sexuality

Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection. As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, "Well, that proves once again that I am a nobody." ... [My dark side says,] I am no good... I deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and abandoned. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved." Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#christianity #faith #feelings #identity #rejection

If you don't feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated. ↗

— Paul F. Davis

#feel #feelings #go #wisdom #tolerance

Do not fear the curse that an enemy has uttered, it is harmless.. but the sigh concealed in a loved one's broken heart may add to your sins. ↗

— Ram Mohan

#enemy #feelings #friendship #friendships #heart

Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better ↗

— Ron Rash

#humans #love #vulnerable #love

Spesso la gente non ha le emozioni chiare, altro che le idee. ↗

— Diego De Silva

#feelings #idee #love #sentimenti #love