"Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision."
— Erich Fromm (The Art of Loving)

"since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;

wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world

my blood approves,
and kisses are a far better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
--the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says

we are for eachother: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis"
— e.e. cummings

"Love is not a feeling it is an ability"
— Steve Carell

"You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn’t decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place."
— Ann Brashares

"We think to much and feel to little."
— Charlie Chaplin

"Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love."
— M. Scott Peck

"Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling."
— bell hooks

"I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest."
— Luis Buñuel (My Last Sigh)

"If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has allowed me to open up -- to know that there's life under the earth and that I have to let it come through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else."
— Natalie Goldberg

"Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
— Albert Einstein

"Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?"
— Eileen Wilks (On the Prowl (Includes: Alpha & Omega Prequel; World of the Lupi, #3.5; Dorina Basarab Prequel; Monère, #3))

"There ARE people who won't customarily eat an entire row of cookies, or hear food calling their name from other rooms, or who don't grind up food in the garbage disposal for fear of eating it, or get it back out of the garbage so they could eat it. Of course, my binge eating was just a cover-up for the larger issue: Trying to fill the emptiness"
— Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy (SARK) (Transformation Soup: Healing for the Splendidly Imperfect)

"Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel."
— Jean Racine

"If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.

From, The Book of Disquiet
"
— Fernando Pessoa

"As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly alone, passing, smiling, holding each other's eyes, floors and walls gone, two people in a universe of space and stars.
"
— Jerry Spinelli

"What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys me, and an unusual capacity for dreaming to keep me entertained. A dead will and a reflection that cradles it, like a living child.

From, The Book of Disquiet


"
— Fernando Pessoa

"There is art in my fingertips,
a poem in my head,
a song brushing past my lips,
a piano being fed.

A mic waiting to be held,
a pen waiting to be used;
Waiting for the perfect hand
and a voice to be felt.

This is: EMOTION"
— Melinda Pitkin

"Feel good about what you do not what you can't do"
— Sheherazade Goldsmith (Slice of Organic Life)

"For our part, when we feel, we
evaporate; ah, we breathe
ourselves out and away; with each new
heartfire
we give off a fainter scent. True,
someone may tell us:
you're in my blood, this room, Spring
itself
is filled with you . . . To what end?
He can't hold us,
we vanish within him and around him."
— Rainer Maria Rilke (Duino Elegies)

"I don't think there is a higher, or more peaceful bliss than the feeling of rocking a baby to sleep."
— Alysha Speer

"When people ask me why I run, I tell them, there's not really a reason, it's just the adrenalin when you start, and the feeling when you cross that finish line, and know that you are a winner no matter what place you got."
— Courtney Parsons

"cloud dances because of wind; flower sings because of rain; grass grows because of earth;I live because of you; you are only the reason, you are all the reasons......"
— vivie

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

"
— Albert Einstein

"What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys me, and an unusual capacity for dreaming to keep me entertained. A dead will and a reflection that cradles it, like a living child.

From, The Book of Disquiet


"
— Fernando Pessoa

"For me it's not enough to perceive something clearly, with my eyesight or my hearing or any of my other senses, in order to feel that it's real. It can even happen that simultaneously feel two things that can't logically coexist. No matter.

--The book of Disquiet


"
— Pessoa, Fernando