Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.
—Stephen Covey (1932–2012) American Self-help Author
Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
—Alfred Adler (1870–1937) Austrian Psychiatrist
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
—G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet
To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
—Barbara Walters (1929–2022) American Broadcast Journalist
Love is not something you feel, it is something you do
—Unknown
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American First Lady, Diplomat, Humanitarian
You are innately designed to use your personal power. When you don’t, you experience a sense of helplessness, paralysis, and depression—which is your clue that something is not working as it could. You, like all of us, deserve everything that is wonderful and exciting in life. And those feelings emerge only when you get in touch with your powerful self.
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
—Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) American Clergyman, Writer
Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
—Woody Allen (b.1935) American Film Actor, Director
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
—Jack London (1876–1916) American Novelist
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
—Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) American Journalist, Author
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
—Denis Diderot (1713–84) French Philosopher, Writer
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
—Buddhist Teaching
Where there is love there is life.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English Dramatist, Poet, Actor
Rather than understand the original cause—a thought—we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
The positive effect of kindness on the immune system and on the increased production of serotonin in the brain has been proven in research studies. Serotonin is a naturally occurring substance in the body that makes us feel more comfortable, peaceful, and even blissful. In fact, the role of most anti-depressants is to stimulate the production of serotonin chemically, helping to ease depression. Research has shown that a simple act of kindness directed toward another improves the functioning of the immune system and stimulates the production of serotonin in both the recipient of the kindness and the person extending the kindness. Even more amazing is that persons observing the act of kindness have similar beneficial results. Imagine this! Kindness extended, received, or observed beneficially impacts the physical health and feelings of everyone involved!
—Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.
—Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
—Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) (1818–85) American Humorist, Author, Lecturer
Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
—William James (1842–1910) American Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
—John Lennon (1940–80) British Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Activist
The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.
—Unknown
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
—G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
—Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) French Sociologist, Philosopher
Love is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900–44) French Novelist, Aviator
Feelings are like chemicals; the more you analyze them the worse they smell.
—Charles Kingsley (1819–75) English Clergyman, Academic, Historian, Novelist
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