Feel Good Quotes - Page 39

• Because I am an African I reserve the right to say that Africa does not exist simply to make people in this country [the UK], or anywhere else in the developed world, feel good about themselves.

  Nicky Oppenheimer

  Country, People, Doe

  "I am an African". Interview with Terry Macalister, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2005.

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• Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Feelings, Important, Doing Good

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• Sometimes hate hurts more than love feels good. Just have to realize it's because we're more used to love. Let the haters stumble by.

  Lights

  Hurt, Hate, Sometimes

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• Think thoughts that make you feel good, make choices that make you feel good, and take actions that make you feel good.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Thinking, Choices, Action

  Louise L. Hay, Cheryl Richardson (2011). “You Can Create an Exceptional Life: Candid Conversations with Louise Hay and Cheryl Richardson”, p.15, Hay House, Inc

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• When we are honest, we admit how agreeable it can feel to be singled out for favored treatment.  The biggest barrier to equality for all is that inequality for some feels good.

  Philip Gulley

  Honest, Treatment, Inequality

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• Good girls don't hurt other people's feelings. Good girls are not overly aggressive, competitive, or boastful. Good girls please others. But what good girls are good for is another question.

  Susan Jane Gilman

  Girl, Hurt, People

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• I've reached a point where I'm comfortable in my own skin, and I do what I need to do, to feel good, but I'm built the way I am. The dancer's feet, the bruises on my legs, they're not going to go away. I think real girls have bruises. Tough chicks get bruised. They get dirty. And they have fun.

  Nina Dobrev

  Girl, Fun, Real

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If we're going to change the world for the better, kids need to know that they can by feeling good about who they are and helping others.

  Dorothy Koomson

  Kids, Helping Others, Feelings

  Dorothy Koomson (2007). “Marshmallows for breakfast”

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• Me and running don’t always see eye to eye. Some days it hurts more than others. But it doesn’t mean I don’t do it. I deal with it and I keep running because not everything that is good for you, always feels good for you.

  Lance Armstrong

  Running, Hurt, Mean

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• Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do, your giving will be thin and short-lived, and that is not what the poor need; it will only improvish them further. Give only if you have something you must give; give only if you are someone for whom giving is its own reward.

  Dorothy Day

  Gratitude, Giving, Needs

  "Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation". Book by Parker Palmer, pp. 48-49, 1999.

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• It suddenly hit me—it was nearly impossible to take good care of something I hated. I’d spent so long hating my body that I didn’t know how to respect and nurture myself or my body. By focusing so much on my exterior, I also robbed myself of the opportunity to feel good about myself and my body, simply because I didn't meet a cultural standard of beauty that is obsessed with thinness. That created stress that interfered with my weight loss and with my own happiness.

  Jessica Ortner

  Hate, Stress, Loss

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• You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.

  Russell Baker

  Smile, Opportunity, Cameras

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• Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good.

  Kevin McCloud

  Air, Order, Ideas

  Kevin McCloud (2010). “Kevin McCloud’s 43 Principles of Home: Enjoying Life in the 21st Century”, p.2, HarperCollins UK

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• For me,it is very important to believe in the kind of movies I do. Rang De Basanti made me feel good about Indian cinema. The movie instilled in me,a confidence so strong,that I wanted to be a part of the revolution in Bollywood.

  Vir Das

  Strong, Believe, Important

  "Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra inspired Vir Das to become an actor". indianexpress.com. August 16, 2013.

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• History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.

  Margaret MacMillan

  Generations, Complicated, Affair

  Margaret MacMillan (2010). “The Uses and Abuses of History”, p.127, Profile Books

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• People always talk about good time rock and roll, Chuck Berry or whatever, like this liberating force for feeling good. But what I need in my life is to be liberated into feeling bad. Not sad. I have plenty of sad. What I need is a place where I can spray anger in sparks like a gnarled piece of electrical cable. Just be mad at stuff and soak in the helplessness.

  John Darnielle

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, People

  John Darnielle (2008). “Black Sabbath's Master of Reality”, p.75, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• You should never do something kind in hopes of recognition. Do it because its right. Do it because it makes you feel good.

  Scooter Braun

  Recognition, Kind, Should

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• Providing great customer service is the most natural activity in the world. It’s fun to help others because it feels good.

  Kevin Stirtz

  Fun, Helping Others, World

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• A good sweat, with the blood punding through my body, makes me feel alive, revitalized. I gain a sense of mastery and assurance.  I feel good about myself.  Then I can feel good about others.

  Arthur Dobrin

  Blood, Sweat, Mastery

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• All of us can improve the quality of our lives if we practice the art of self-care and train our minds to think thoughts that make us feel good.

  Louise Hay

  Art, Thinking, Self

  Louise L. Hay, Cheryl Richardson (2011). “You Can Create an Exceptional Life: Candid Conversations with Louise Hay and Cheryl Richardson”, p.12, Hay House, Inc

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• If you feel depressed for an hour, you've produced approximately eighteen billion new cells that have more receptors calling out for depressed-type peptides and fewer calling out for feel-good peptides.

  Chris Prentiss

  Cells, Calling, Hours

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.133, BookBaby

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• A hug makes you feel good all day.

  Kathleen Keating

  Kissing, Hug, Feels

  Kathleen Keating (2011). “The Hug Therapy Book”, p.8, Hazelden Publishing

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• Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no hope in the inspirational preachers of Christian sunshine, who are able to pick you up and set you back on your feet and make you feel good for three or four days-until you fold up and collapse into despair. Self-confidence is a precious natural gift, a sign of health. But it is not the same thing as faith. Faith is much deeper, and it must be deep enough to subsist when we are weak, when we are sick, when our self-confidence is gone, when our self-respect is gone.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Spiritual, Sunshine

  Thomas Merton (2003). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.190, Shambhala Publications

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• Most people think of love as some sort of power outside of themselves that will "take them away from all of this." Sadly, this is not the case. Love exists only within our own hearts, and to have happy relationships we must first become truly loving people. And as we fill our hearts with love by expressing love for others in thought, word, and deed ("acting as if" until we make it happen if necessary), that love can heal our own lives, help to solve our problems, and enable us to feel good about ourselves.

  John Templeton

  Love, Heart, Thinking

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• Thyroid Panel (blood test)-Abnormal thyroid hormone levels are a common cause of anxiety, depression, forgetfulness, confusion, and lethargy. Having low thyroid levels decreases overall brain activity, which can impair your thinking, judgment, and self-control and make it very hard for you to feel good. Low thyroid functioning can make it nearly impossible to manage weight effectively. To know your thyroid levels, you need to know these figures: thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) Free T3 Free T4 Thyroid antibodies (thyroid peroxidase and thyroglobulin antibodies)

  Daniel Amen

  Thinking, Self, Blood

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