Whatever you do, you should do it with feeling.

- Yogi Berra

I would never trust a man who didn't cry; he wouldn't be human.

- Norman Schwartzkopf

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

- William Arthur Ward

As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I hold this question as a guiding light: "What do I really need right now to be happy?" What I come to over and over again is that only qualities as vast and deep as love, connection and kindness will really make me happy in any sort of enduring way.

- Sharon Salzberg

Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we're holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel we'd rather collapse and back away. They're like messengers that show us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where we're stuck. This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we are.

- Pema Chodron

Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.

- Audre Lorde

Love is more than a noun -- it is a verb; it is more than a feeling -- it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.

- William Arthur Ward

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.

- Judy Collins

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

- Madame de Stael

We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy and sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I feel my courage wavering I rush to them. They will give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resilience to push on.

- Helen Hayes

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

- Albert Einstein

Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.

- Judy Collins

Emotions are celebrated and repressed, analyzed and medicated, adored and ignored -- but rarely, if ever, are they honored.

- Karla McLaren

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

- Alice Miller

Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst.

- Walter Weckler

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

- Erich Fromm



You may not always be able to feel a deeper heart feeling right away, but stay focused in the heart. The sincerity of your effort can reconnect you to your heart current and start the juices flowing. To plug in, think of someone you love or remember what feels good, maybe a fulfilling experience. Feelings help you remember.

- Sara Paddison



Good manners are the technique of expressing considerations for the feelings of others.

- Alice Miller



The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

- Lord Byron



The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

- Carlos Castaneda



There is no instinct like that of the heart.

- Lord Byron



Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.

- Winston Churchill



One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

- Ann Radcliffe



Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.

- David Borenstein



You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

- Pearl S. Buck



The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.

- Helen Keller



If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.

- Rachel Carson



When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.

- Virginia Woolf



[I]t is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

- George Eliot



But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman



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