“I’ve always treasured empathy as the particular privilege of the invisible, the observers who are shy precisely because they sense so much—because it is overwhelming to say even a single word when you’re sensitive to every last flicker of nuance in the room.”— Leslie Jamison, amazon.com
“Feelings come and feelings go. There is no need to fear them and no need to crave them. Be open to your feelings and experience them while they are here. Then be open to the feelings that will come next. Your feelings are a part of your experience. Yet no mere feeling, however intense it may seem, i…”— Ralph Marston, goodreads.com
“I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say, he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.”— Vincent Van Gogh, amazon.com
“Let me tell you what I do know: I am more than one thing, and not all of those things are good. The truth is complicated. It’s two-toned, multi-vocal, bittersweet. I used to think that if I dug deep enough to discover something sad and ugly, I’d know it was something true. Now I’m trying to dig deep…”— Richard Siken, amazon.com
“Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.”— Frances Hodgson Burnett, amazon.com
“They did feel it, yet neither spoke of it, for often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.”— Louisa May Alcott, amazon.com
“I’m not very good at putting my feelings into words. That’s why people misunderstand me.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Already I realize certain feelings I was not aware of, like the fear of being hurt. I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com
“We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.”— Philip James Bailey, amazon.com
“All conflict can be traced back to someone’s feelings getting hurt, don’t you think?”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It’s a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you’re hurt.”— Tom Gates, goodreads.com
“I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!”— Charles M. Schulz, amazon.com
“Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.”— Martin Luther King Jr., amazon.com
“The appearance of things change according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”— Khalil Gibran, amazon.com
“You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“Don't take other people's love for granted and don't assume that they know how you feel.”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“But you can’t feel bad every second, I wanted to tell her. Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn’t mean you don’t care, or that you’ve forgotten. It just means you’re human.”— Ransom Riggs, amazon.com
“I think of you often. Especially in the evenings, when I am on the balcony and it’s too dark to write or to do anything but wait for the stars. A time I love. One feels half disembodied, sitting like a shadow at the door of one’s being while the dark tide rises. Then comes the moon, marvelously sere…”— Katherine Mansfield, amazon.com