“It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.”— Sydney J. Harris, goodreads.com
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”— Sigmund Freud, en.wikiquote.org
“Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?”— Kaui Hart Hemmings, amazon.com
“Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that comes from your words.”— Jennifer Donnelly, amazon.com
“Feelings are like blankets, covering you up so you can’t see clearly, or like mazes you can too easily get lost inside. I am terrified of getting lost.”— Corey Ann Haydu, amazon.com
“I know you have feelings left somewhere. But they’re all so hard to reach.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it’s ‘War and Peace’ every day.”— Rufus Wainwright, goodreads.com
“I think communication starts when words are not present at all. I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important”— Marina Abramovic, theodysseyonline.com
“Cussing doesn’t come from a lack of vocabulary – I know all the other words. None of them speak the same language that my fucking heart does.”— Anis Mojgani, goodreads.com
“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it — to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don’t want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it, too. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“He felt only what he had always felt in her presence—love and aching awe and gratitude for her.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“The mind can’t explain it, and you can’t make it go away. It’s called love.”— Lois Lowry, amazon.com
“Emotions are notoriously vapid. Once we catch them, they float away.”— Erin Loechner, designformankind.com