Feelings Quotes - Page 40

• Poetry is not an end in itself but in the service of life; of what use are poems, or any other works of art, unless to enable human lives to be lived with insight of a deeper kind, with more sensitive feelings, more intense sense of the beautiful, with deeper understanding?

  Kathleen Raine

  Beautiful, Art, Understanding

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• pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling.

  Audre Lorde

  Erotic, Denial, Suppression

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.54, Crossing Press

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• Though there is nothing more dangerous, yet there is nothing more ordinary, than for weak saints to make their sense and feeling the judge of their condition. We must strive to walk by faith.

  Thomas Brooks

  Judging, Ordinary, Saint

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 245, 1895.

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• Feeling comes before reflection.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Reflection

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• Ye children of promise who are awaiting your call to glory, take possession of the inheritance that now is yours. By faith take the promises. Live upon them, not upon emotions. Remember, feeling is not faith. Faith grasps and clings to the promises. Faith says, "I am certain, not because feeling testifies to it, but because God says it.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Faith, Children, Promise

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• It is so much easier to rest contented with what we have already acquired than to change ever so slightly those routine but profound habits of thought and feeling which govern our life, and by which we live so blissfully. This mental inertia is, perhaps, our greatest enemy. Insidiously it leads us to assume that we can renew our lives without renewing our habits.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Profound, Enemy, Routine

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• Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand.

  Anna Magnani

  Moon, Hands, Jewels

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• From this haunting feeling of being not wanted, which remained a recurrent haunt through life, I found two ways of escape, both of which in changing form also persisted. One was the invention of gods, the other was personal efficiency in work.

  Anna Louise Strong

  Two, Way, Haunting

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• In the end, in England, when you want to find out how people are feeling, you always go to the pubs.

  Martha Gellhorn

  People, Want, England

  Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.123, Granta Books

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• Performing is one of the best feelings I know!

  Gloria Estefan

  Performing, Knows

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• I might not be a psychiatrist, but I am convinced that sex is not as important as we tend to make it. First there is that little feeling, that little red flame, called love. Blow on the flame and make it get bigger like a fire, don't blow it out like a candle.

  Xaviera Hollander

  Sex, Blow, Fire

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• when asked, most folks will gladly tell us about ourselves, who we are, what we're feeling, and where we should be heading. And if we don't honor ourselves by listening to our lives, we'll believe them.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Believe, Listening, Honor

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• almost all American writers tend to overwrite, to tell too much. I get the disillusioned feeling that novels, today, are sold by the pound, like groceries. It actually takes a great deal more discipline to be able to leave out rather than to throw in everything. This means that you have to say in one sentence precisely what you mean, instead of saying sort of what you kind of mean in hundreds of sentences and hoping the sum total will add up.

  Rona Jaffe

  Mean, Discipline, Able

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• Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects upon stern natures. It is the spring rain which melts the ice-covering of the earth, and causes it to open to the beams of heaven.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Kindness, Spring, Rain

  Fredrika Bremer (1856). “Hertha”, p.143

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• I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and I have such strong feelings about what must be done.

  Robert Kennedy

  Running, Country, Strong

  "Robert Francis Kennedy: Attorney General, Senator and Heir of the New Frontier" by Alden Whitman, archive.nytimes.com. June 6, 1968.

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• It's like that perfection thing, trying to be that thing you're not. You have to feel that discomfort and not try to get rid of it. Accept that aspect and get into it. Acknowledge those feelings and let them be. You are who you are.

  Jeff Bridges

  Perfection, Trying, Accepting

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• To determine whether or not you have the ingredients to be charismatic, answer the following questions: What are your real feelings about who you are? What do you believe in? Do you have goals or a mission in life? Do you project optimism? Do others turn to you for leadership? Noncharismatic people spend their lives auditioning for others and hoping they'll be accepted. Charismatic people don't doubt their ability to add value to a situation, so they move forward with their mission.

  Roger Ailes

  Real, Moving Forward, Believe

  Roger Ailes (2012). “You Are the Message: Getting What You Want by Being Who You Are”, p.106, Crown Business

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• The kind of response I hope for when I write my novels for children: to give them a chance to recognize something of their own feelings -- about themselves, their parents, their friends -- and their own situation as a kind of subject race, always at the mercy of the adults who mostly run their lives for them.

  Nina Bawden

  Running, Children, Writing

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• In truth, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” isn't about Sept. 11. It's about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity and turn it into yet another wellspring of generic emotions: sadness, loneliness, happiness. This is how kitsch works. It exploits familiar images, be they puppies or babies - or, as in the case of this movie, the twin towers - and tries to make us feel good, even virtuous, simply about feeling. And, yes, you may cry, but when tears are milked as they are here, the truer response should be rage.

  Manohla Dargis

  Baby, Loneliness, Sadness

  "A Youngster With a Key, a Word and a Quest" by Manohla Dargis, www.nytimes.com. December 22, 2011.

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• Women's thoughts are impelled by their feelings. Hence the sharp-sightedness, the direct instinct, the quick perceptions; hence also their warmer prejudices and more unbalanced judgments. In this the child is like the woman.

  Antoinette Brown Blackwell

  Children, Perception, Prejudice

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• Ultimately the Force is the larger mystery of the universe. And to trust your feelings is your way into that.

  George Lucas

  Way, Mystery, Force

  "Of Myth And Men". Interview with Bill Moyers, content.time.com. April 18, 1999.

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• Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis

  Father, Liars, Want

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis (2014). “Where the Dark Streets Go”, p.71, Open Road Media

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• The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves. Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Memories, Cells, Water

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• What has made it work, or what makes certain paintings successful or not, has to do with my being a painter and a thinking, feeling person, more than my sex, color, height, origin.

  Helen Frankenthaler

  Sex, Successful, Thinking

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• Good theater should always send people away feeling changed.

  Suzanne Farrell

  People, Should, Theater

  "Ballet Legend Suzanne Farrell Passes on the Balanchine Legacy". Seven Days Interview, www.sevendaysvt.com. February 15, 2012.

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