Feelings quotes and words of wisdom

"A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings."
Olin Miller


"Action and feeling go together and by regulating the action which is under the more direct control of the will, we can regulate the feeling, which is not."
William James


"Exhilaration ? that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and before you realize what"s wrong with it."
Unknown


"Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there."



"Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition."
Charlotte Brontė


"Human life is more governed by fortune than by reason."
David Hume


"I don"t believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel."
Gloria Naylor


"I perfectly feele even at my fingers end."
John Heywood


"In handling men, there are three feelings that a man must not possess ? fear, dislike and contempt. If he is afraid of men he cannot handle them. Neither can he influence them in his favor if he dislikes or scorns them. He must neither cringe nor sneer. He must have both self-respect and respect for others."
Herbert N. Casson


"Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason."
Samuel Adams


"Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic."
William Ewart Gladstone


"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth."
Benjamin Disraeli


"O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts!"
John Keats


"Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge."
Audre Lorde


"We rely upon the poets, the philosophers and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope. They give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I find my courage wavering I rush to them. They give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resilience to push on."
Helen Hayes


"When late morning rolls around and you"re feeling a bit out of sorts, don"t worry; you"re probably just a little eleven o"clockish."
Alan Alexander Milne


"When we have "second thoughts" about something, our first thoughts don"t seem like thoughts at all ? just feelings."
Sydney J. Harris


"You can"t expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can"t expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones."
Greg Anderson


Interesting Quotes

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.Dame Rose Macaulay - English novelist (1881 - 1958)

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.John F Kennedy