“What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, whom you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude.…”— Fr. Pedro Arrupe, ignatianspirituality.com
“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”— William Styron, amazon.com
“Even if you know what’s coming, you’re never prepared for how it feels.”— Natalie Standiford, amazon.com
“I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.”— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com
“There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”— Khalil Gibran, amazon.com
“You write a poem to discover what you’re thinking, feeling, where the truth is. You don’t begin by saying, now this is the truth.”— Maxine Kumin, amazon.com
“I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, en.wikiquote.org
“I try to express how I feel, but it changes every day and so I’m finding it hard.”— Kate Nash, play.spotify.com
“Emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. In the middle they are acted. This is why all the world is a stage.”— Iris Murdoch, amazon.com
“That is why they are great...feelings that are unspoken are unforgettable.”— Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrei Gorchakov, Oleg Yankovskiy, amazon.com
“I want to feel all there is to feel, he though. Let me feel tired now. I mustn’t forget, I’m alive, I know I’m alive. I mustn’t forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“I’m numb and I’m tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I’d been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I’m soaked to the skin with emotion.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“The eye doesn’t see. The brain sees. The eye just transmits. So what we see isn’t only determined by what comes through the eyes. What we see is affected by our memories, our feelings, and by what we’ve seen before.”— Brandon Stanton, amazon.com
“My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”— Jane Austen, amazon.com