Feelings are like chemicals; the more you analyze them the worse they smell.
—Charles Kingsley (1819–75) English Clergyman, Academic, Historian, Novelist
The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.
—C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) Irish-born British Academic, Author, Literary Scholar
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.
—Jean de La Bruyere (1645–96) French Satiric Moralist, Author
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
—Augustine of Hippo (354–430) Roman-African Christian Philosopher
Your programming leads to your thoughts; your thoughts lead to your feelings; your feelings lead to your actions; your actions leads to your results. Therefore, just as is done with a personal computer, by changing your programming, you take the first essential step to changing your results.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
In this world full of pain and sorrow, maybe once in a lifetime, you’ll find someone who will make you feel wonderful. Hang on to that someone no matter what!
—Unknown
Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
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
We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
—Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
—Audre Lorde (1934–92) American Poet, Activist
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.
—Common Proverb
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
—Charles Dickens (1812–70) English Novelist
When you’re feeling terrific, notify your face.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (b.1940) American Self-Help Author
It’s imperative to realize that it is not necessary to try to get rid of fear in order to succeed. Rich and successful people have fear, rich and successful people have doubts, rich and successful people have worries. They just don’t let these feelings stop them. Unsuccessful people have fears, doubts, and worries, then let those feelings stop them.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
A Rescuer isn’t always a person. Addictions to alcohol or drugs, sexual addiction, workaholism—all the ways we numb out—can rescue the Victim from feeling his or her own feelings.
—David Emerald
Thoughts lead to feelings. Feelings lead to actions. Actions leads to results.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.
—Indian Proverb
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
—Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar
The gift of friendship… a willingness to listen… a pair of helping hands… a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.
—Indian Proverb
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell him.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–94) American Physician, Essayist
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
True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English Dramatist, Poet, Actor
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
—William Arthur Ward (1921–94) American Author
A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.
—Chinese Proverb
When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even experience them as friends coming to show you what you have not yet investigated thoroughly enough.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.
—Robert Cialdini (b.1945) American Social Psychologist
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
—Graham Greene (1904–91) British Novelist, Playwright, Short Story Writer
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “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 to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1913) American Short-story Writer, Journalist
Cultivate consideration for the feelings of other people if you would not have your own injured. Those who complain most of ill-usage are those who abuse others the oftenest.
—Anonymous
Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore—not because they are pretty or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
—Henri Frederic Amiel (1821–81) Swiss Moral Philosopher, Poet, Critic
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
—Honore de Balzac (1799–1850) French Novelist
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
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
—Judy Garland (1922–69) American Actress, Singer
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
—Henry van Dyke Jr. (1852–1933) American Author, Educator, Clergyman
Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.
—Unknown
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
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
If you want to “get in touch with your feelings,” fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another thinking human being, get in touch with your thoughts.
—William Safire (1929–2009) American Columnist, Journalist, Author, Speechwriter
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Men are as old as they feel, women as old as they look.
—Italian Proverb
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
Love is not something you feel, it is something you do
—Unknown
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
—Unknown
A woman will be twice bound when her chains feel comfortable.
—Egyptian Proverb
A woman is like a blanket: If you cover yourself with it, it bothers you; if you throw it aside you will feel the cold.
—African Proverb
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
Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause—a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English Poet, Literary Critic, Philosopher
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
—Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717–97) English Art Historian, Man of Letters, Politician