Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.
—David Hare (b.1947) English Dramatist, Director, Film-Maker
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
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
Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
—Anthony de Mello (1931–87) Indian-born American Theologian
I didn’t find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
If love is great, and there are no greater things, then what I feel for you must be the greatest.
—Unknown
Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.
—Ernest Holmes (1887–1960) American New Thought Writer, Teacher
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
—Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American Poet
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
—Mother Teresa (1910–97) Roman Catholic Missionary, Nun
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
—Woody Allen (b.1935) American Film Actor, Director
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian Psychiatrist, Psychoanalytic
Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.
—Indian Proverb
Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don’t put off being happy until some future date.
—Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American Self-Help Author
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
—G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.
—Indian Proverb
With true friends, even water drunk together is sweet enough.
—Chinese Proverb
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
—Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
—Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian
Do not look where you fell but where you slipped.
—Common Proverb
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State
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
Love is a serious mental disease.
—Plato (428 BCE–347 BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Mathematician, Educator
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don’t accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept, because you will gain one friend.
—Augustine of Hippo (354–430) Roman-African Christian Philosopher
What’s so remarkable about Love at first sight? It’s when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.
—Indian Proverb
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
—Charles Dickens (1812–70) English Novelist
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
—Oprah Winfrey (b.1954) American TV Personality
If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.
—Marianne Williamson (b.1952) American Activist, Author, Lecturer
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.
—Common Proverb
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
—George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist
Love is not something you feel, it is something you do
—Unknown
Feelings come and go, like light troops following the victory of the present; but principles, like troops of the line, are undisturbed and stand fast.
—Jean Paul (1763–1825) German Novelist, Humorist
A little kingdom I possess,
Where thoughts and feelings dwell;
And very hard the task I find
Of governing it well.
—Louisa May Alcott (1832–88) American Novelist
Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations—always darker, emptier, simpler than these.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
—Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American Novelist, Human Rights Activist
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
Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
—Charlotte Bronte (1816–1855) English Novelist, Poet
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
Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!
—Indian Proverb
No three words have greater power than I Love You.
—Indian Proverb
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
—Alfred Adler (1870–1937) Austrian Psychiatrist
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realize the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
—Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic
A buffalo does not feel the weight of his own horns.
—Indian Proverb
Men are as old as they feel, women as old as they look.
—Italian Proverb
I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.
—Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) New Zealand-born British Author
In as much as love grows in you,
so in you beauty grows.
For love
is the beauty of the soul.
—Augustine of Hippo (354–430) Roman-African Christian Philosopher
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