Top 100 Quotes About Feeling Feelings
#1. The metaphysics of substance. The strange feeling which comes over us when we sense: this is skin - this is bone - all in a single vision that is completely unearthly. The dreaminess of our existence mixed at the same time with the indescribably sweet illusion of reality.
Max Beckmann
#2. If you feel afraid, you can make yourself courageous by acting courageous. If you are feeling unhappy, by deliberately acting happy you can induce happy feeling. If you are lacking in enthusiasm, by simply acting enthusiastic you can make yourself enthusiastic.
Norman Vincent Peale
#3. If one ... struggles for what is beyond the most proper, doing not in accordance with one's natural ability, acting not with one's genuine feeling, one will surely get into trouble ...
Guo Xiang
#4. It's a wonderful feeling to experience a shift when you realize that you have the power to change the patterns within yourself.
Renee Marino
#5. It's good to be back, feeling like myself and enjoying it.
Paula Radcliffe
#6. My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
#7. I've been up, down, trying to get the feeling again. All around, trying to get the feeling again. The one that makes me shiver, made my knees start to quiver.
Barry Manilow
#8. The romantic mode is primarily inspirational, imaginative, creative, intuitive. Feelings rather than facts predominate. "Art" when it is opposed to "Science" is often romantic. It does not proceed by reason or by laws. It proceeds by feeling, intuition and esthetic conscience.
Robert M. Pirsig
#9. Losing is a bad feeling. I've never been on an undefeated team throughout high school, so I tasted defeat before. I've been taught to handle it graciously.
Brad Tavares
#10. My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation.
May Sarton
#11. In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome in this duel of wits brings a great feeling of triumph.
Dorothea Brande
#12. I got a feeling that after six years of disappointment, of mediocrity and decline, a slow course correction is not what voters are going to be looking for in 2016.
Rick Perry
#13. I tried to bring in the live orchestra like Bjork does. I love the feeling that that music gives me when I just listen to it. I mean it would be awesome to do an entire record like that. But unfortunately that's not my style. So rather than do a record like that I just got inspired by it.
Willa Ford
#14. Music. It's not about those things. It's about a feeling. It's about expressing yourself. It's about letting go.
Antony John
#15. Touring is just the most incredible experience, and whilst I try to share it, there are moments where you feel the only way you can really know is to be there in the moment feelings what you are feeling.
Natalie Gulbis
#16. All of us have just got to find that time to look after our bodies. That helps us make sure that our mind is sharp. I know that when I'm feeling great and really fit, I can get in three or four hours more of really productive work.
Richard Branson
#17. There was nothing so very unfamiliar about the excitement she was feeling, and yet it felt always like a new excitement. It was, in other words, a perennially unfamiliar feeling.
Soseki Natsume
#18. I think that's the hardest thing as a woman, feeling like once you reach a certain age, no one wants to look at you or that you're not attractive or sexy anymore. And you start to feel like you're put out to pasture.
Erin Davie
#19. Feeling a little bit alive is a lot better than just waiting to die.
Robert De Niro
#20. There is this pain of love. You experience it some moments. It starts like a strange gnawing at your heart. It then slowly spreads. Spreads to the whole body. You fall deeply into it. This feeling.
Avijeet Das
#21. Composing is a natural fit. As far as the creative process goes, I'd rather do this than anything else, by far. Something different happened to me when I started to write music to images. It was a feeling of excitement and connection and a sense of being in the right place that I never had before.
James Newton Howard
#22. If I am feeling stupid, angry, jealous, or humiliated, I bring total awareness and acknowledgment to those feelings. I admit my failures and own them. Then I usually start laughing as I realize how small and inconsequential I really am and also how ridiculous my problems are!
Sharon Salzberg
#23. That which is seen and that which is touched are of a dream-like and illusion-like nature. Because feeling arises together with the mind, it is not [ultimately] perceived.
Shantideva
#24. It is through the repeated process of feeling impressions, recording them, and obeying them that one learns to depend on the direction of the Spirit more than on communication through the other five senses.
Richard G. Scott
#25. Hawaiian to me is a feeling of getting somewhere, without stepping on anybodys toes, without causing friction with anybody.
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
#26. Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays: A face o'er which a thousand shadows go!
William Wordsworth
#27. I imagined that if the surface of the package imitated the colour and texture of the fruit skin, then the object would reproduce the feeling of the real skin.
Naoto Fukasawa
#28. Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused.
Hermann Hesse
#29. I did not like this feeling of having feelings.
Jeff Lindsay
#30. Love is a strange feeling! And you cannot understand what happens to you when it does happen to you.
Avijeet Das
#31. The feeling that she was going to explode, that she was too big for her own skin.
Jodi Picoult
#32. Improv is what helped me overcome the anxiety that I was feeling sometimes. It's the thing that pushes me to be present, and to keep moving through all of the what-ifs that go through my mind.
Emma Stone
#33. Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others.
Desmond Tutu
#34. World music evokes a feeling. You don't have to think about the scene that it comes from.
St. Lucia
#35. No doubt, in complete abstraction one has a feeling of a great shock, if not an explosion, and in approaching the real, one feels health and truth restored ...
Jean Helion
#36. Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#37. But I have a gut feeling on this and it's not the oh-look-it's-a-bright-shiny-world kind. (Tate)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#38. A lot of making a movie is the comfort level of the people. It's just feeling open. We need to get along. We have to know something about each other.
Richard Gere
#39. There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
George Eliot
#40. The $50 note trick - ask who wants it even after stomping on it - moral is, no matter what we do to it it is still worth $50. We as human beings never lose our value either despite feeling down, flat or worthless at times.
John C. Maxwell
#41. You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin.
Chuck Palahniuk
#42. Language rarely lies. It can reveal the insincerity of a writer's claims simply through a grating adjective or an inflated phrase. We come upon a frenzy of words and suspect it hides a paucity of feeling.
Irving Howe
#43. There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance
do not sacrifice that to anything else.
John D. Rockefeller
#44. I think, for me, the main thing is feeling comfortable.
Sophie Cookson
#45. Feeling better is temporary. Transformation is forever.
Christine Kane
#46. Not being locked into one set of feelings, which you run the risk of mistaking for the truth, you have greater and more intense access to all feeling states, including those you would never choose to act out.
Mary Gaitskill
#47. It's a horrible feeling - there's nothing worse for any player than to be thinking at the back of your mind that there's something wrong with you.
Jamie Redknapp
#48. If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from delightful arabesques to an overflowing of religious feeling greater than anything we have since discovered.
Claude Debussy
#49. I'm pretty much the same person I was 20 years ago. My politics haven't changed. I have the same feeling of idealism. But I am a little bit wiser and more experienced.
Lucinda Williams
#50. The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success, above a certain level, are outside our self-concept-our image of who we are and what is appropriate to us.
Nathaniel Branden
#51. Entertainment, in the end, is a food industry for feeling.
Jenova Chen
#52. When a woman isn't feeling good about herself and you combine that with her period, eventually she'll ask you if you like her body. You have to say no.
Chris Klein
#53. Hosting the Emmys is a challenge for me. I guess it's the equivalent of someone who needs to climb a mountain or jump out of a plane. It's that kind of thing, where this could go terribly wrong. And I love the feeling of when it goes right.
Ellen DeGeneres
#55. The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; no perception comes amiss.
Virginia Woolf
#56. You do need an outlet to release all of those fears. You build it up and then, when you go to a movie theater, it's the last place that it's socially acceptable to be terrified. It's saying that, for the next 90 minutes, you're allowed to be afraid and you're not a coward for feeling that way.
Eli Roth
#57. I am definitely feeling 'intimate.' I'm kind of unstoppable at the moment! Like the big 'O' is like the biggest 'O' ever.
Jessica Simpson
#58. The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.
Aaron Rodgers
#59. When I go speak to these kids through my foundation and am able to sit down and tell them some of the things that I've been through, they can look up and relate to me, and they can understand the feelings I had that are similar to what they're going through and feeling.
Marshawn Lynch
#60. Why climb? For the natural experience; for the danger that draws us ever on; for the feeling of total freedom; for the monstrous drop beneath you. It is like a drug.
Hermann Buhl
#61. Talent is being able to sell what you're feeling.
Elvis Presley
#62. The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it; such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.
Andre Malraux
#63. One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting.
Sidney Nolan
#64. A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.
John F. Carlson
#65. Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
Rita Mae Brown
#66. Gratitude is a feeling of fullness, a recognition of the heart of what we are receiving in this moment.
M.J. Ryan
#67. Let's embrace more of life, not less. Balanced people don't change the world, and I'd rather spend my time feeling worn out from meaningful activities and projects.
Chris Guillebeau
#68. I just have this feeling if I take pi, well past all this static, take pi to 10 million, 20 million digits, that I'll find something really incredible. Not just a pattern, not just an order, but a sign. A mathematical sign.
Andrew Schneider
#69. It is in the area of feeling that religion enters the heart and is expressed by man.
Edgar Magnin
#70. Witchcraft is, and was, not ... for everyone. Unless you have an attraction to the occult, a sense of wonder, a feeling that you can slip for a few minutes out of the world into the world of faery, it is of no use to you.
Gerald Gardner
#71. The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling.
Babatunde Adebimpe
#72. Betrayal is a more subtle, twisted feeling than terror. It burns and eats, but terror stabs right through.
Wendy Hoffman
#73. I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.
Lily King
#74. And if he is lying and he double-crosses you, I'll kill him for you. From anyone else, it would have been an idle threat, and I smiled, feeling loved. (Ivy and Rachel)
Kim Harrison
#75. I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling
Robert Fulghum
#76. It's a wonderful feeling to have a niece like you
Because you are always so dear
You are so dear no matter the year
But all throughout each day of the year
There could hardly be a town in the South of England where you
could throw a brick without hitting the niece of a bishop.
George Orwell
#77. A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.
Eugene Delacroix
#78. A change of feeling is a change of destiny. - Neville Goddard P.g44
Rhonda Byrne
#79. Two individuals, conversing honestly, can be inspired by the feeling that they are engaged in a joint enterprise, aiming at inventing an art which has not been tried before.
Theodore Zeldin
#80. If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of one poem, you'll be very lucky indeed.
E. E. Cummings
#81. Having nerves and feeling the pressure just gets you focused and gets your concentration level where it needs to be. I harness that nervous energy into a positive way.
Tom Lehman
#82. If God said, 'Rumi pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms,' there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought, not one feeling, nor any act, I would not bow to.
Rumi
#83. I do tend to gravitate to the more dramatic side of things. I love feeling intense emotions when I'm acting. I just love characters and stories with conflict.
Aaron Paul
#84. There's a difference between, you know, God loves unconditionally in my feeling and religion loves conditionally. Religion spends an awful lot of time dictating who God can love and can't love.
Sinead O'Connor
#85. I've often gotten the feeling that the only people who have learned from computer assisted instruction are the authors.
Ben Shneiderman
#86. Rationalization: This is a close cousin of intellectualization. It occurs when we are so afraid of feeling pain, disappointment, or guilt that we make up a logical argument to reduce these feelings.
Shirley Impellizzeri
#87. Beauty is about Accepting yourself for who you are. It's about feeling secure about yourself. It's about feeling so blessed everyday that we are given the chance to live. All those beautiful feeling and positive energy inside you, now that is what makes you beautiful.
Davina Veronica
#88. The same feeling you get from succeeding is the same feeling I get from failing, now imagine what happens when I win.
Behdad Sami
#89. I think the most important recipe for a good date is just spending time with somebody and really connecting and feeling like the best version of yourself regardless of what you may be doing.
Sophia Bush
#90. So much of creativity is the feeling that you're either getting a gift from some other dimension or some other part of yourself.
John Hodgman
#91. The feeling of rich makes you rich. The feeling of poor makes you poor.
Mark Victor Hansen
#92. Man they treat me like a legend, am I really this cold? I'm really too young to be feeling this old.
Drake
#93. Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person.
Veronique Vienne
#94. In religion faith does not spring out of feeling, but feeling out of faith. The less we feel the more we should trust. We cannot feel right till we have believed.
Horatius Bonar
#95. Sometimes you have the feeling that some little imp is standing behind you and dictating to you, but he gives it to you slowly, drop by drop.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#96. The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him in intelligence.
Ernst Mach
#97. I felt totally myself, nothing like the emptiness and horrible feeling I had then [pulling out the Olympics] - no dizziness.
Paula Radcliffe
#98. We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like; and if the art we like is bad then our thinking and feeling will be bad. And if the thinking and feeling of most of the individuals composing a society is bad, is not that society in danger?
Aldous Huxley
#99. The feeling of losing oneself in somebody's arms, yet at the same time finding oneself there, is irreplaceable. Nothing compares to the intensity of that feeling.
Katarina Witt
#100. Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien ... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.
Terence McKenna
