Quotes On Feelings And Understanding

#1. A distinction has been made between acuteness and subtlety of understanding. This might be illustrated by saying that acuteness consists in taking up the points or solid atoms, subtlety in feeling the air of truth. - Author: William Hazlitt

#2. The most precious gift you can ever give to a young woman is, appreciating and understanding her true feelings - Author: M.F. Moonzajer

#3. For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering. - Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

#4. I must have confessed that the feelings, emotions and sentiments in my words are beyond my understanding. - Author: M.F. Moonzajer

#5. Regenerate people feel through their minds and think through thier feelings. They are self-aware in a God-concious and God-centered way that is beyond the understanding of those who do not not actually share this life quality . - Author: J.I. Packer

#6. A relationship calls for sympathetic listening with a view to understanding the other person's thoughts, feelings, and desires. - Author: Gary Chapman

#7. No one can develop freely in this world and find a full life without feeling understood by at least one person. - Author: Paul Tournier

#8. It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in ... art that we acquire much of our truth, much of our nobility and grace, and much of our pleasure. - Author: Ursula Goodenough

#9. Happiness and suffering are feelings - parts of our mind - and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we really want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must improve our understanding of the mind. - Author: Kelsang Gyatso

#10. I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world. - Author: Lech Walesa

#11. If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability. - Author: Gayle Forman

#12. The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny. - Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

#13. He stared at Esmelda with a face like glass, nothing hidden. What I saw there wasn't steel or fire or stone. Feelings stirred in me and I had to look away. I knew what I saw because I'd felt them, too - understanding, sadness, compassion ... forgiveness. - Author: Deborah Wheeler

#14. Worship is not simply a feeling that is experienced; it must also involve understanding and the mind. - Author: R.C. Sproul

#15. And, perhaps, in the education of both sexes, the most difficult task is so to adjust instruction as not to narrow the understanding, whilst the heart is warmed by the generous juices of spring ... nor to dry up the feelings by employing the mind in investigations remote from life. - Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

#16. What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding. - Author: Susanne Katherina Langer

#17. The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind,
the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it. - Author: George Bernard Shaw

#18. Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy, it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness. - Author: Carl Rogers

#19. Communication. It's important to be completely open and fearless when it comes to communication. Good, bad, happy, sad. Talk it out, hug, see a shrink, text each other, hurl marshmallows. Whatever it takes to ensure a deep understanding of each other's feelings. Cancer is not a solo mission. - Author: Ethan Zohn

#20. In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it. I think you just have to allow your feelings to go with the music and you will find yourself carried along by it fairly quickly. - Author: Dave Holland

#21. speaking, as your level of understanding rises, you will have the experience of deeper feelings such as gratitude, calmness, peace, hope, and joy. - Author: Richard Carlson

#22. A person can only see their shadow if they awaken their eclectic soul. Self-understanding commences by admitting to the shadowy presence of the primordial unconsciousness. The unconscious mind is a magical concoction of logical and irrational thoughts and feelings. - Author: Kilroy J. Oldster

#23. Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what's happening, and they have better skills to work it out. - Author: Brene Brown

#24. I don't have any understanding of a human being who doesn't respect the beauty of life and that goes for all creatures that have thoughts, feelings and needs. - Author: Alicia Silverstone

#25. I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right. - Author: Nina Bawden

#26. The moment when you realize no one understands, no one ever did, no one ever will.
You were alone, you always will be.
But may be, just may be, someone will look up to you someday. And when they do, remember to hide those tearful eyes, to smile and to say - look, life's so good. - Author: Sanhita Baruah

#27. The time and intelligence that our ancestors spent on understanding the sovereignty revealed in Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are directed by our contemporaries in affirming and validating the sovereignty of our needs, wants, and feelings. - Author: Eugene H. Peterson

#28. Elinor ... whose advice was so effectual, possessed a strength of understanding and coolness of judgment ... her disposition was affectionate, and her feelings were strong; but she knew how to govern them. - Author: Jane Austen

#29. The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified. - Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#30. Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered up so many disparate needs and wants and feelings, and inspired so many different paths towards understanding it. - Author: Robert Winston

#31. We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people. - Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

#32. If you have feelings about reading, you feel the rhythm of prose or of a poem like music. It awakens something in your soul and then of course you study, read, you grow up and you begin to understand the message and that is the first step towards understanding life. - Author: Maria Kodama

#33. Research suggests when it comes to understanding our feelings, we humans have an odd mix of low ability and high confidence. - Author: Leonard Mlodinow

#34. Feeling inspired, being challenged. Learning something new, something meaningful. Knowing change is possible and I can make that happen. Understanding and loving others, feeling truly connected and authentic. Good food, great sex, and belly laughs. All the basic foundations of happiness, really! - Author: Jaime Murray

#35. Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine. - Author: Emma Goldman

#36. In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it. - Author: Mitch Albom

#37. Writing about personal thoughts and observations, subjective feelings and objective reality is a gateway experience that intensifies a person's level of consciousness. Every degree of increased consciousness can lead to increased knowledge of the world and self-understanding. - Author: Kilroy J. Oldster

#38. I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or hurtful. - Author: Carl R. Rogers

#39. As long as your feelings, faith, honesty and understanding are alive, there is no need to measure your love. - Author: Raj Singh

#40. Understanding of our fellow human beings ... becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow. - Author: Albert Einstein

#41. Making choices for the feelings they bring us & not what others think means we can find fulfilment and achievement from fulfilling our goals.
From the writers of Carolann's Pathway and Carolann's Progression, The Gateway to Understanding your Life's Ultimate Journey - Author: Roland Bush-Cavell And Carolann Frankie

#42. The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings. - Author: Asher Brown Durand

#43. If we would know true love and understanding one for another, we must realize that communication is more than a sharing of words. It is the wise sharing of emotions, feelings, and concerns. It is the sharing of oneself totally. - Author: Marvin J. Ashton

#44. The best way I can get understanding from another person is to give this person the understanding, too. If I want them to hear my needs and feelings, I first need to empathize. - Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg

#45. I'm human, I feel, I understand. That's the highest level of love, is understanding - when you can understand someone, when you can love them with their flaws and their faults. So I understand, I consider. I may speak the truth, but I'll consider your feelings, too. - Author: Tracy Morgan

#46. The number one way a man can succeed in fulfilling a woman's primary love needs is through communication. By learning to listen to a woman's feelings, a man can effectively shower a woman with caring, understanding, respect, devotion, validation, and reassurance ... - Author: John Gray

#47. In the last three years of racing I've met as many women fans as men fans, and in NASCAR it's the same thing. My wife loves cars, but the difference is she doesn't have 20 years of understanding the background of them. She basically drives them and uses her gut feelings as to which is best. - Author: Tim Allen

#48. Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first
not through intellectual understanding. - Author: Christiane Northrup

#49. YOUR job for a REAL LIVING LIFE is to be Responsible for your actions and your feelings. If people "don't understand you", don't worry, most people don't even know themselves enough to understand themselves, not to mind understanding You!! - Author: A. Antares