Feel Good Quotes - Page 32

• And taking care of somebody else made me feel good. Like discovering you're more than you thought you were. More even than you hoped to be.

  Bette Greene

  Care, Made, Discovering

  Bette Bette Greene (2011). “Morning Is a Long Time Coming”, p.50, Open Road Media

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• We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love.

  Eric Weiner

  Helping Others, People, Payback

  Eric Weiner (2014). “The Geography of Bliss”, p.187, Random House

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• The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Happiness, Selfish, Discipline

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• Tommy moved on. "Lash, your people have been oppressed for hundreds of years. It's time to strike back. Look, you don't have your MBA yet - they haven't completely juiced you of your usefulness yet. Would Martin Luther King back down from this challenge? Malcolm X? James Brown? Don't you have a dream? Don't you feel good, like you knew that you would, now?

  Christopher Moore

  Dream, Kings, Years

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• What are you up to now?" "I'm sill crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it.

  Ray Bradbury

  Crazy, Rain, Walks

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of.

  Jason Mraz

  Inspirational, Heart, Thinking

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• 90% of the work in this country is done by people who don't feel good".

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, People, Done

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• A storm was brewing. The wind has picked up and a mass of purple clouds was coming in from the West. It felt good to have my hair whipping around my head. I thought it might feel good to have hail beat down on me. Sometimes storms outside are the only relief for storms inside.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Clouds, Hair, Wind

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• The phrase 'I just turn on my monkey and it makes me feel good' sounds very dirty, but I can't explain why. It's great to try to use expressions like that on the comics page. People want to complain but they can't, because they can't figure out quite what they should be complaining about.

  Stephan Pastis

  Dirty, Expression, People

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• The act of laughing releases some nice chemical into your brain, you feel good and it's free.

  James Patterson

  Moving On, Nice, Laughing

  James Patterson (2004). “Sam's letters to Jennifer”

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• I always felt sorry for humans, spending so much time in front of the mirror. Fixing their hair, makeup, and clothes, mostly to impress others. Did they really see themselves in the mirror? Was it what they wanted to see? Did it make them feel good or bad? And mostly I wondered if they based their self-image on their reflected one.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Sorry, Makeup, Mirrors

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• He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Book, Feels

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's just so hard to feel good, you know?" I do know. And more than that, it's just so incredibly hard to feel. (54)

  Ellen Hopkins

  Feels, Knows, Hard

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• It feels good, honey, but it isn't love.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Honey, Feels

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• Flirtation doesn't have to go somewhere; it certainly doesn't need to end up in bed. I like to think of it as a little friendlier than a handshake, a little less intimate than a kiss. It's a way of saying hi, you look great, have a wonderful day. A tasteful flirtation, played out people who understand the rules, leave everyone feeling good and can perk up the bluest mood.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Kissing, Thinking, People

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.275, Dell

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• Don't you see? We've become smart enough to justify stupid behavior. Like, 'I'm angry at him and I didn't express it, so I turned my anger inward and now it's depression, so in order to feel good again, what I should do is call him and express my anger.' It's like, if we can make it sound smart enough, we're allowed to do stupid things.

  Carrie Fisher

  Smart, Stupid, Order

  Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• First, consider the pen you write with. It should be a fast-writing pen because your thoughts are always much faster than your hand. You don't want to slow up your hand even more with a slow pen. A ballpoint, a pencil, a felt tip, for sure, are slow. Go to a stationery store and see what feels good to you. Try out different kinds. Don't get too fancy and expensive. I mostly use a cheap Sheaffer fountain pen, about $1.95.... You want to be able to feel the connection and texture of the pen on paper.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Hands, Trying

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• He never hurries. He never shows his cards. He always hangs up first....Like when we first started talking on the phone, he would always be the one who got off first. When we kissed, he always pulled away first. He always kept me just on the edge of crazy. Feeling like I wanted him too much, which just made me want him more....[It was] excruciating and wonderful. It feels good to want something that bad. I thought about him the way you think about dinner when you haven't eaten for a day and a half. Like you'd sell your soul for it.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Crazy, Thinking, Phones

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• Even before the withdrawal sets in, you'll do anything to get that feeling back, because as long as it lasts, nothing's wrong. It doesn't matter if you forget something, or lose something. Or if you fail someone. Nothing's wrong and everything feels good, and you never want it to end.

  Rachel Vincent

  Long, Feelings, Withdrawal

  Rachel Vincent (2012). “Soul Screamers Volume Two: My Soul to Keep\My Soul to Steal\Reaper”, p.171, Harlequin

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• True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those tenets personally chosen by the individual, strong enough to endure through trials of solitude and adversity. The principles are fitted together into what we call integrity, literally the integrated self, wherein personal decisions feel good and true. Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others.

  E. O. Wilson

  Strong, Integrity, Character

  "Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge". Book by E. O. Wilson, 1998.

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• If you want to achieve your objectives, you have to be prepared for a daily dose of pain or discomfort. At first, it's unpleasant and demotivating, but in time you come to realise that it's part of the process of feeling good, and the moment arrives when, if you don't feel pain, you have a sense that the exercises aren't having the desired effect.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pain, Exercise, Feelings

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• I love to read about anger. A "feel bad" book always makes me feel good. And no other novel in the history of literature is more depressing than Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children.

  John Waters

  Depressing, Children, Book

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.161, Macmillan

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• In the end, I take my shoes off and stick my feet in, letting the lukewarm water lick at my ankles. It feels good, and not just because I’m stoned. I make a mental note to add this to Dulcie’s list of things worth living for. For some reason, I keep seeing her rolling her eyes at me, that big, goofy grin stretching her face like Silly Putty. On my private list, I add her smile. She doesn’t have to know.

  Libba Bray

  Silly, Eye, Shoes

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.249, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• It's like one of those scenes from a feel-good Hollywood movie. Where everybody is happy and nobody's hair fizzes in the wind. Where it doesn't rain, your shoes stay comfortable all day, and everybody's jokes are funny.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Rain, Hair, Wind

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• Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.

  C. S. Lewis

  Nice, Smart, Stupid

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