Feelings Quotes - Page 37

• Quotes are like prompts. A way of searching, connecting the dots. Other people's thinking has always - both positively and negatively - jumpstarted my thinking. Quotes are also a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking. The quotes are part of those constructions and reflections. Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinking/feeling through a subject.

  Masha Tupitsyn

  Thinking, Reflection, People

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• You have to have an eye and a feeling for where things go. Writing visually, writing textually, writing sonically. Text is visual for me and images are textual. There is power in the way ideas are arranged, not just developed rhetorically. Form is everything.

  Masha Tupitsyn

  Writing, Eye, Ideas

  "True Lovers are as Rare as True Rebels". Interview with Jacob Wren, logger.believermag.com. October 24, 2013.

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• Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.

  Matthea Harvey

  Writing, Sadness, Games

  "'All of these things are poetry.'". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. August 21, 2014.

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• Writing and giving voice to what I am feeling makes me happy. And supporting people in finding their voice, passion, outrage and resistance. There is nothing better than that.

  Eve Ensler

  Passion, Writing, Voice

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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• I think there are differences between men and women. There is more of a softness to women than there is to men, especially when it comes to those more intimate emotions: feeling love, feeling familial connections.

  David Bezmozgis

  Men, Thinking, Differences

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Here I am: a Russian-speaking Jew living in Canada, and you, an Indian ex-patriot living in San Francisco. All of a sudden we commune in this moment about a much older Russian political dissident.That's the human part of being human: feeling those moments.

  David Bezmozgis

  San Francisco, Here I Am, Political

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.

  Hosea Ballou

  Wise, Religious, Men

  Hosea Ballou (1832). “Select sermons: delivered on various occasions from important passages of Scripture”, p.216

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• The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling when it is caused by a lively love of good. Whatever makes the passions pure, makes them stronger, more durable, and more enjoyable.

  Joseph Joubert

  Passion, Hatred, Stronger

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• Being assertive does not mean attacking or ignoring others feelings. It means that you are willing to hold up for yourself fairly-without attacking others.

  Albert Ellis

  Attitude, Mean, Doe

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• do you not feel that sometimes in life one's friendships begin by antipathy - sometimes by indifference - and sometimes by that sudden magnetism of sympathy as if in some former life we had been very near and dear, and were only picking up the threads again, and to such two souls there is no feeling that they are strangers.

  Elinor Glyn

  Friendship, Two, Soul

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• By some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed.

  Margaret Deland

  Gossip, Gone, Faults

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• The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.

  George Sand

  Ungrateful, Ignorant, Style

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.140, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It seems to me that the earth belongs to God who made it and entrusted it to men as a perpetual home. But it cannot have been part of His plan that some men should be ill with overfeeding and that others should die of starvation. No matter what anyone can say they cannot prevent me from feeling sad and angry when I see a beggar crying at a rich man's door.

  George Sand

  Home, Men, Doors

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• No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood.

  George Sand

  Losing, Blame, Humans

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• Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Approach, Poetry Is

  "The Life of Poetry". Book by Muriel Rukeyser. Chapter One: "The Fear of Poetry", 1949.

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• Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Believe, Book, Reading

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• What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Beautiful, Mean, Humility

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• Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We feel less lonely when we see other people going through the same things, even if they're fictional characters.

  Isabel Allende

  Lonely, Character, People

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• The slightest emotion of disinterested kindness that passes through the mind improves and refreshes that mind, producing generous thought and noble feeling, as the sun and rain foster your favourite flowers. Cherish kind wishes, my children; for a time may come when you may be enabled to put them in practice.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Kindness, Children, Rain

  Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery”, p.439

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• Really living without clutter takes an iron will ... This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife's occupations, picking up. I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Iron, Long, Way

  Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.439, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• my mother always found me out. Always. She's been dead for thirty-five years, but I have this feeling that even now she's watching.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Mother, Years, Thirty

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• On the whole, and providing one is in good spirits and feeling reasonably bright, it is not hard to converse for a short space of time on subjects about which one knows little, and it is indeed often amusing to see how cunningly one can steer the conversational barque, hoisting and lowering her sails, tacking this way and that to avoid reefs, and finally racing feverishly for home with the outboard engine making a loud and cheerful noise.

  Virginia Graham

  Home, Space, Racing

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• I create by feeling rather than by intellectualizing.

  Joni Mitchell

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• The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.

  Joni Mitchell

  Writing, Blood, People

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• Love is a very hard feeling to keep alive. It's a very fragile plant.

  Joni Mitchell

  Love Is, Alive, Plant

  Marom, Malka, Mitchell, Joni (2014). “Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now”, p.139, Music Sales Limited

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