Feelings Quotes - Page 24

When you really work hard for something that you genuinely and truly love, and you don't want it to fail, it's a good feeling to see it do good.

It seems the more I try to connect with the world, I am feeling more alone than I ever have felt before

The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled.

When you wake up to the Divine Consciousness within you and your divine identity, you wake up simultaneously to the Divine Consciousness appearing as all other beings. And this is not poetry and this is not a feeling, this is a direct experience of the divine light living in and as all other beings. And until this realization is firm in you, you do not know who or where you are.

Some part of me can't wait to see what life's going to come up with next! Anticipation without the usual anxiety. And underneath it all is the feeling that we both belong here, just as we are, right now.

The catalyst that converts any physical location - any environment if you will - into a place, is the process of experiencing deeply. A place is a piece of the whole environment that has been claimed by feelings. Viewed simply as a life-support system, the earth is an environment. Viewed as a resource that sustains our humanity, the earth is a collection of places.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

I think human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself, we are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self; an accretion of sensory, experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody is nobody. Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight - brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.

I love being in love. It's the best feeling in the world. I have never felt like this before.

I have come to see that our problem is that we don't know what happiness is. We confuse it with a life uncluttered by feelings of anxiety, rage, doubt, and sadness. But happiness is something entirely different. It's the ability to receive the pleasant without grasping and the unpleasant without condemning.

Taste is the feeling that permits one to tell the difference between what is beautiful and what is merely spectacular.

You may have success in life, but then just think of it - what kind of life was it? What good was it - you've never done the thing you wanted to do in all your life. I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.

There is a feeling of personal dignity and independence in grasping, literally, the power to back your refusal to be a target of a violent crime with lethal force. This is not a sense of power, it is now the experience of escaping from a sense of powerlessness.

I will dine nowhere without your consent although with my present feelings I might be trusted with fifty virgins naked in a dark room.

Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

I don't think about being beautiful or not being beautiful. ... It's more about feeling confident inside your own skin really and thinking about yourself as little as possible.

All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.

Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.

One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.

When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances or conditions, rejoice in the Lord.

It's hard to fall in love with somebody, and then break up and not have feelings for that same person.

In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings.