Old Feelings Quotes

• That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.

  William S. Burroughs

  Heart, Feelings, Stills

  William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz (2001). “Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs”, p.6, Grove Press

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• You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Peace, Emotions Feelings, Anxiety

  "To My Daughters, With Love (My Neighbor's Son)". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

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• Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Inspirational, Feelings

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.203, Vintage

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• People will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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• One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing that we as individuals can make a difference. Ending hunger in America is a goal that is literally within our grasp.

  Jeff Bridges

  Differences, Knowing, America

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• You can make lots of mistakes, but if you give children avenues for creativity and joy, they will have resources to carry them through. For example, if cooking together, reading, listening to music, coloring, participating in sports, or taking a walk in the woods are paired with pleasure and closeness, throughout life doing these things will kindle old feelings of happiness an/or comfort.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Sports, Children, Mistake

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• Every time I read the paper those old feelings come on.We are waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool says to push on.

  Pete Seeger

  Feelings, Paper, Fool

  "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" (song) (1967)

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• Success on a cosmic level completely eludes me. I'm deeply suspicious of things being too good. It's part of my superstition, I think, to generate pain in order to give the illusion of gain. I'm not saying I reject success, but honestly, I don't quite know how to deal with it. It's an old feeling: As soon as you have the thing you've been going after all your life, that reasonable degree of security, you start kicking against it, doubting it.

  Hugh Laurie

  Success, Pain, Thinking

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• I find that because of modern technological evolution and our global economy, and as a result of the great increase in population, our world has greatly changed: it has become much smaller. However, our perceptions have not evolved at the same pace; we continue to cling to old national demarcations and the old feelings of 'us' and 'them'.

  Dalai Lama

  Our World, Feelings, Perception

  The Dalai Lama, Nicholas Vreeland (2002). “An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge: it can never mean as you're t' have your old feelings back again, for that's not possible.

  George Eliot

  Giving Up, Revenge, Mean

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.403, George Eliot

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• His smile brought back the best times, sweet memories of nights together... stirring up those old feelings that got me thinkin' bout forever.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Sweet, Memories, Night

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• Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings of remorse and regret and hurt and anger often have to come up in order to be released. On the other side we're a better person, capable of a happier life...who we are when we're no longer burdened by the buried feelings that weighed us down, or the self - defeating patterns that the pain produced.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Hurt

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 24, 2013

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• Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were times too when I lived in a desert and felt no joy and saw no hope and could not remember my old feelings. Then I lived by faith alone, faith without hope. What good did I get from it? I got to have love in my heart.

  Wendell Berry

  Heart, Sacrifice, Joy

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• To picture Roosevelt as a man at this time in his life - he felt he was old. He was 53 years old, feeling lonely and irrelevant. And all of a sudden, he takes on this campaign, and it becomes a crusade for popular government. And he ultimately goes on fire in the campaign, but he discovers he's up against all the old machine tactics that he used to use himself, and he has to let the public get involved. And he energizes the public through the most extreme kind of rhetoric, which truly brings him into the streets and onto his side.

  Geoffrey Cowan

  Lonely, Men, Years

  "The American Political Invention That 'Let The People Rule'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

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