#thoughts

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#different #dwellers #each #feelings #habits

If you feel flustered when pressured to make a hard decision in a rush, the best answer is usually no. ↗

— Faydra D. Fields

#food

I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young. ↗

— Kim Elizabeth

#articulate #came #easy #emotions #fantasy

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts. ↗

— Walker Evans

#eye #feelings #joyous #photographer #reason

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#beating #becomes #contented #day #deeds

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#appear #disappears #hand #lot #order

Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#escaped #friend #husk #mourn #much

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts. ↗

— Mary Ellen Chase

#father #given #good #labor #manual

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#feed #flame #frame #his #love

The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#computer #diaries #did #end #ended