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Feelings |
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| “All our
reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.” |
| -- Blaise Pascal |
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| "All the beautiful sentiments in the world
weigh less than a single lovely action." |
| -- James Russell Lowell |
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| "No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here
and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the
more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim." |
| -- Boris Pasternak |
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| "There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from
feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination." |
| -- Edmund Burke (1729-97),
Irish-born British politician, writer |
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| "Sadness is almost never anything but a
form of fatigue." |
| -- Andre Gide |
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| "The cure for grief is motion." |
| -- Elbert Hubbard |
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| "So when you are listening to somebody,
completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the
words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the
whole of it, not part of it." |
| -- Jiddu Krishnamurti |
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| "This was love at first sight, love
everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far
as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire
possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that
this was for life." |
| -- Thomas Mann (1875-1955), German author |
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| "An animal's feelings are the means an
animal uses to sense their environment and deal with it on a real
level. For man, as an animal, it is no different. All else,
thinking, for instance, is only abstraction of subjective
reality." |
| -- Albert Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002),
American writer |
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| "But are not this struggle and even the
mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than
if we kept systematically away from emotions?" |
| -- van Gogh |
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| "Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a
feeling of destiny, he thinks he is in the world for something
important and it gives him drive and confidence." |
| -- Benjamin McLane Spock (b. 1903), American
pediatrician |
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| "Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling
the artist has experienced." |
| -- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910),
Russian writer, philosopher |
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| "There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive
of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of
unlimited power." |
| -- William Henry Harrison |
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| "The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be
clearly recognized as the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment ...
both of individuals and of humanity." |
| -- Alfred Adler (1870-1937),
Austrian psychiatrist |
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| "The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too." |
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-- Saint Teresa of Avila |
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| "Never apologize for showing feeling. When
you do so, you apologize for truth." |
| -- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
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| "When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or
sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than
the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language." |
| -- James Earl Jones, actor |
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| "Boredom is the feeling that everything is
a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is." |
| -- Thomas S. Szasz (b. 1920), American
psychiatrist |
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| "The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for
reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make
sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling
that something is right in the world." |
| -- Leonard Bernstein (1918-90),
American conductor, composer |
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| "One must not always think that feeling is
everything. Art is nothing without form." |
| -- Gustave Flaubert (1821-80),
French writer |
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| "I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the
lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of
inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow." |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-82), American writer, philosopher, poet, essayist |
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| "Good manners have much to do with
the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely
exhibit them." |
| -- Amy Vanderbilt |
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| “Modern man’s besetting temptation is to
sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his
reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of
his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.” |
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-- Aldous Huxley |
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| “It
is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very
much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness
such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts
and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as
ourselves.” |
| -- George Eliot (1819-1880) |
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| "To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists,
manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty,
which our dull facilities can comprehend only in the most primitive
forms--this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true
religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the
ranks of the devoutly religious men." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955),
German-born American theoretical physicist |
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| "It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do
anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a
fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A
good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a
majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single
electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own
environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than
hysteria, happiness rather than misery." |
| -- Bertrand Russel (1872-1970),
British philosopher, mathematician, social critic, writer |
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| "An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and
cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the
brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human
feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is
the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the
child." |
| -- Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961),
Swiss psychiatrist, founded psychology |
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| "One of the great attractions of patriotism -- it fulfills
our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to
bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are
profoundly virtuous." |
| -- Aldous Leonard Huxley
(1894-1963), British writer, "Brave New World" |
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| "One's life story cannot be told with complete
veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind,
emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears; not in months and years, or
physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by
dates." |
| -- Helen Adams Keller
(1880-1968), American memoirist, lecturer |
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| "The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind
men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal
peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision." |
| -- Henry Alfred Kissinger (b.
1923), German-born American diplomat |
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| "Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work
you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this
belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it." |
| -- Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| "A human being is part of a whole, called by us the
"Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences
himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the
rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a
kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to
affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves
from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all
living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955),
German-born American theoretical physicist |
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