“Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.com
“You are beautiful because you let yourself feel, and that is a brave thing indeed.”— Shinji Moon, amazon.com
“If you don’t feel, what’s the point? What can you do?”— Lois Lowry, Jonas, Brenton Thwaites, amazon.com
“Love, love, love, love is like sunshine: Sometimes you have to get burned to know you were there.”— Andrea Gibson, amazon.com
“You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.”— Tabitha Suzuma, amazon.com
“I feel that a lot, actually, in lot of circumstances. Like I ought to be feeling something I don’t.”— Marina Keegan, amazon.com
“We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I want in life…it’s not quite love and it’s not quite community; it’s just this feeling that there are people, an abundance of people, who are in this together. Who are on your team. When the check is paid an…”— Marina Keegan, amazon.com
“Maybe the best feeling of all feelings, that I’ve ever had, is opening up and letting somebody that you love see all your broken bits. And then they’re like, ‘I don’t mind, those are pretty cool. Here are mine too.’”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“Retrouvailles (French): The joy people feel after meeting loved ones again after a long time apart.”— Shaunacy Ferro, mentalfloss.com
“Kanyininpa (Pintupi): Intimate and active relationship between carer and caree.”— Shaunacy Ferro, mentalfloss.com
“Gjensynsglede (Norwegian): The joy of meeting someone you haven't seen in a long time.”— Shaunacy Ferro, mentalfloss.com
“Gigil (Tagalog): The irresistible urge to pinch someone because they are loved or cherished.”— Shaunacy Ferro, mentalfloss.com
“Cafune (Portuguese): Tenderly running one’s fingers through a loved one’s hair.”— Shaunacy Ferro, mentalfloss.com
“Sabsung (Thai): Being revitalized through something that livens up one’s life.”— Shaunacy Ferro, mentalfloss.com