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What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

—Aldous Huxley

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You’re scared of the way I make you feel because you don’t want to feel anything.

—Maya Banks in Sweet Temptation

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To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

—Dorothy Thompson

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Home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.

—Cecelia Ahern in Love, Rosie

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You shouldn’t try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you’re supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you’re supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it’s necessary because it’s all part of you getting to the next part of yourself.

—Cecelia Ahern in The Book of Tomorrow

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Master Shaku Soen liked to take an evening stroll through a nearby village. One day he heard loud lamentations from a house and, on entering quietly, realized that the householder had died and the family and neighbors were crying. He sat down and cried with them. An old man noticed him and remarked, rather shaken on seeing the famous master crying with them, "I would have thought that you at least were beyond such things." "But it is this which puts me beyond it," replied the master with a sob.

—Irmgard Schloegl

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Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.

—Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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We have attempted to separate the spiritual and the erotic, thereby reducing the spiritual to a world of flattened affect, a world of the ascetic who aspires to feel nothing.

—Audre Lorde

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We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

—Anna Sewell

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Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

—David Wilkerson

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You know how it feels right before a tornado hits? I mean when the sky’s still clear, but the wind’s starting to cool off and change direction. You know something’s coming, but you don’t always know what. That’s how things feel to me right now.

—P.C. Cast in Betrayed

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Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of like it’s becoming nice again around you. And you realize it, and realize how happy you are in it, and you just gotta laugh.

—Jacqueline Woodson in Peace, Locomotion

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I let myself have feelings for you despite not knowing how this would end.

—Siobhan Vivian in Not That Kind Of Girl

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Part of the beauty of love was that you didn't need to explain it to anyone else. You could refuse to explain. With love, apparently you didn't necessarily feel the need to explain anything at all.

—Meg Wolitzer in The Interestings

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Sometimes we get so used to not really feeling anything, just going with the flow, that we forget how it feels to be really happy or sad.

—Lindsey Kelk in I Heart New York

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