“'What is terrible, my sweet one?' She sighed deeply. 'To have no more life of my own! It has all gone — to you! And yours has come to me! Is it not strange and almost sad? How your heart beats, poor boy! I can hear it throb, throb — so fast! — here, where I am resting my head.'”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“I cannot say it properly! There is no language for my heart! If I could tell you all I feel, you would think it foolish, I am sure, because if is all so wild and strange.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“Is it not true that many people do hide their feelings, and pretend to be quite different to what they are?”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“People who are controlled by their emotions typically have something in common: they tend to only do what feels most comfortable. In other words, their emotions are organized into feels good and feels bad, not feels good or does good.”— Brianna Wiest, forbes.com
“He wished to be alone with his own thoughts for awhile — to try and resolve the meaning of this strange new emotion that possessed him, — a feeling that was half-pleasing, half-painful, and that certainly moved him to a sort of shame.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“It hurt my feelings. I was getting jokes made at my expense on every late-night show, people were making fun of me. I was really depressed. And because of that, and because my show was cancelled, I was looked at as a failure in this business. No one would touch me. I had no agent, no possibility of…”— Ellen Degeneres, eonline.com
“The spread of the flames was soft and gentle, like an expert caress, with nothing rough or hurried about it—their only purpose was to warm people's hearts.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Stop minimizing and discounting your feelings. You have every right to feel the way you do. Your feelings may not always be logical, but they are always valid. Because if you feel something, then you feel it and it’s real to you. It’s not something you can ignore or wish away.”— Daniell Koepke, internal-acceptance-movement.tumblr.com
“When a woman tells a man about her feelings, she doesn't want him to fix her. She wants him to shut up and listen.”— Andrew Wilder, Emily Prentiss, Paget Brewster, imdb.com
“I hope I offended some people. I didn’t want to win the Emmy for nothing.”— Kathy Griffin, reuters.com
“For men the answer was always the same, and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.”— George R. R. Martin, Catelyn Stark, amazon.com
“Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed The speculating rooks at their nests cawed And saw from elm-tops, delicate as flowers of grass, What we below could not see, Winter pass.”— Edward Thomas, amazon.com
“The sentiments I now announce were not unknown before the expression of the voice which called me here.”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“We don’t put enough emphasis on emotional intelligence and it’s left people unable to figure out how to handle their own.”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com
“Read more books, I guess, is what I’m trying to say. Read stories about other people, other emotions. Get emotions that you can’t get from daily life just now.”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com
“The next time you cry, imagime that a tiny piece of the ocean is behind ur eyes & is just tryimg to find its way back to the sea.”— Jonny Sun, twitter.com