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
A friend walks in when everyone else walks out
—Unknown
Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.
—Unknown
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
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
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
—Charles Dickens (1812–70) English Novelist
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 (b.1940) American Motivational Writer, Author, Motivational Speaker
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian Psychiatrist, Psychoanalytic
When a man stops thinking he stops feeling.
—French Proverb
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
—Peter Ustinov (1921–2004) British Actor, Playwright, Director
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
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference towards one’s neighbor.
—Mother Teresa (1910–97) Roman Catholic Missionary, Nun
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
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
—Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian Novelist
No three words have greater power than I Love You.
—Indian Proverb
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
Men are as old as they feel, women as old as they look.
—Italian Proverb
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
Friendship: Never explain—your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
—Eric Hoffer (1902–83) American Philosopher, Author
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
Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State
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 most important and visible outcropping of the action bias in excellent companies is their willingness to try things out, to experiment. If you wait until you believe you are safe, sure to be without occasional foolish feelings, you’ve most likely waited too long.
—Tom Peters (b.1942) American Management Consultant, Author
When you’re feeling terrific, notify your face.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (b.1940) American Self-Help Author
Do not look where you fell but where you slipped.
—Common Proverb
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 (1895–1986) Indian Philosopher
It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
—Common Proverb
The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
—Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French 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
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
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
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
The hen lays an egg, and the cock feels the pain in is backside.
—Moroccan Proverb
One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.
—William James (1842–1910) American Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician
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 rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.
—Unknown
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
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
—Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American Self-Help Author
Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
—Alfred Adler (1870–1937) Austrian Psychiatrist
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
—Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar
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
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
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
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
The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.
—Anne Louise Germaine de Stael (1766–1817) French Woman of Letters
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Who suffers from love, feels no pain.
—Italian Proverb
Live for love. Without love, you don’t live.
—Indian 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