It is only when you don’t vitally feel the truth of something that you say it is difficult to put it into action.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
—Jim Morrison
That’s the worst way to miss somebody. When they’re right beside you and you miss them anyway.
—Pittacus Lore in I Am Number Four
Only do what your heart tells you.
—Princess Diana
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
—Alfred Hitchcock
When I’m with him, I can feel myself getting better. It’s like he’s picking up broken pieces of me and putting me back together, and I don’t even know he’s doing it. We never talk about it. We don’t go to therapy. He just loves me and that’s enough.
—Ilona Andrews in Magic Bleeds
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
—Anna Quindlen
My mother thought it would make us feel better to know that animals had no souls, and thus their deaths were not to be taken seriously. But it didn't help, and when I think of some of the animals I have known, I wonder. The only really "soulful" eyes in the world belong to the dog or cat who sits on your lap or at your feet, commiserating when you cry.
—Liz Smith
No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill.
—Gayle Forman in If I Stay
Nonattachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to arise without closing around it, without eliminating the pure witness of being. It is an active receptivity to life.
—Stephen Levine
The pain is just a subtle reminder of how alive you made me feel.
—Cassia Leo in Black Box
He had known the rarest of things—love, real love—he'd held it in his hand and he'd thrown it away. What was left for him? A lifetime of second-bests.
—Jennifer Donnelly in The Tea Rose
We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
—George Eliot
Right now I want a word that describes the feeling that you get—a cold sick feeling, deep down inside—when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but you can't stop it. And you know, for the first time, for the very first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. And that you will never again quite be the same person you were.
—Jennifer Donnelly in A Northern Light