“Commuovere (Italian): To be moved in a heartwarming way, usually relating to a story that moved you to tears”— Nicola Dall'Asen, wearesweet.co
“Tiám (Farsi): The twinkle in your eye when you first meet someone.”— Nicola Dall'Asen, wearesweet.co
“Gezellig (Dutch): Describes much more than just coziness—a positive, warm emotion or feeling rather than just something physical—and connotes time spent with loved ones, togetherness.”— Nicola Dall'Asen, wearesweet.co
“Wabi-Sabi (Japanese): Finding beauty in the imperfections, an acceptance of the cycle of life and death.”— Nicola Dall'Asen, wearesweet.co
“Forelsket (Norwegian): The indescribable euphoria you experience as you begin to fall in love.”— Nicola Dall'Asen, wearesweet.co
“Naz (Urdu): The pride and assurance that comes from knowing you are loved unconditionally.”— Nicola Dall'Asen, wearesweet.co
“Kilig (Tagalog): The feeling of butterflies in your stomach, usually when something romantic or cute takes place.”— Nicola Dall'Asen, wearesweet.co
“You touched me and a garden bloomed trails all over my skin.”— Genefe Navilon, letters-to-the-sea.tumblr.com
“Whoever said feeling right meant doing right, knew nothing about living right.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.com
“When I don't know how I'm supposed to feel, you're the only person that can remind me.”— Iain S. Thomas, amazon.com
“Let it be enough that the world looks alive when it’s wet and so much living is most beautiful when it’s dying.”— Bryce Emley, narrativemagazine.com
“Once, someone told me I have a small heart. Whenever I weep I press the moment like a garlic clove— I want to feel, good God I want to feel, to see how everything alive becomes a landscape.”— Bryce Emley, narrativemagazine.com
“Children can feel, but they cannot analyze their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.com
“HELP ME... I'm FEELING.”— Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman, Jim Carey, The Grinch, Jim Carrey, imdb.com
“Your numbness isn't feeling nothing, it's feeling everything and never having learned to process anything at all.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Healing is really just letting yourself feel. It is unearthing your traumas and embarrassments and losses and allowing yourself the emotions that you could not have in the moment that you were having those experiences.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“We avoid feeling anything because we have more or less been taught that our feelings have lives of their own. That they'll carry on forever if we give them even a moment of our awareness.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com