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  • I'm really afraid of spiders and my own feelings. -- Julie Klausner
  • Self-empathy in NVC means checking in with your own feelings and needs. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
  • A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so. -- Jane Austen
  • I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings. -- Mario Vargas Llosa
  • I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
  • Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them. -- Ben Marcus
  • I am a person who beats around the bush when I want to speak about my own feelings. -- Daesung
  • Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights. -- John Wooden
  • So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music. -- Conor Oberst
  • I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something. -- Jacob Lawrence
  • It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs. -- Tasha Alexander
  • To be able to hear our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
  • The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions. -- Ichiro Suzuki
  • We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. -- Jim Morrison
  • Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it. -- Rachel Cusk
  • Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ. -- J. C. Ryle
  • Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life. -- Leo Tolstoy
  • I think that everybody has a right to their own thoughts, their own feelings and their own private moments, if they want them. -- Katherine Heigl
  • I am sure as I grow older I will understand more about my own feelings and how to put them in a song. -- Michael Tolcher
  • I'm overwhelmed with my own feelings and the feelings I have for all the people who were rooting for us to win this thing. -- Garry Maddox
  • The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
  • In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. -- Paulo Coelho
  • Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness. -- Deepak Chopra
  • You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to write poetry. -- Edward Hirsch
  • With guests who are 'in the middle of the fight,' we're able to hear their point-of-view on the topics, as well as advance our own feelings. -- Sean Hannity
  • No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • People who are empathic definitely will have some difficulties distinguishing their own feelings from other people's feelings and they tend to take on other people's energies quite easily. -- Doreen Virtue
  • The first lesson in constructing viral content is having the strength, courage, and self-confidence to get in touch with your own feelings, thinking about what profoundly affects you. -- Ken Poirot
  • Beginners focus on analysis, but professionals operate in a three dimensional space. They are aware of trading psychology their own feelings and the mass psychology of the markets. -- Alexander Elder
  • What was doubly disconcerting for me was that he showed such extraordinary and precocious insight in describing his own feelings that I felt he was making my own confession. -- Andre Gide
  • A Rescuer isn't always a person. Addictions to alcohol or drugs, sexual addiction, workaholism-all the ways we numb out-can rescue the Victim from feeling his or her own feelings. -- David Emerald Womeldorff
  • I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing. -- Mary Oliver
  • Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and appease their own feelings of mediocrity and fear. -- Uell Stanley Andersen
  • That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war. -- Jupiter Hammon
  • My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights. -- Bruce Springsteen
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  • Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea. -- Samuel Rutherford
  • It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit, and when we praise them we wish to attract their praise. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience -- Douglas Coupland
  • I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so often we attribute our own feelings on to someone else. -- Larry Gelbart
  • You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you're singing it from someone else's angle. But it's always from me. It's just a new way of framing it. -- Chris Martin
  • NVC enhances inner communication by helping us translate negative internal messages into feelings and needs. Our ability to distinguish our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
  • Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined. -- Vernon Lee
  • I'm not a preacher, and I'm certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I'm kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach. -- Neil Young
  • Fiction writers learn about the development of metaphor, the use of rhythm, the way that language is compacted in order to express the feelings of - express their own feelings and the feelings of their characters. -- Edward Hirsch
  • I do find it sometimes that people project their own feelings on to the characters and I think that there is a certain amount of sexism - I mean the proprietary nature, for men and women. -- Matthew Weiner
  • When our children see us expressing our emotions, they can learn that their own feelings are natural and permissible, can be expressed, and can be talked about. That's an important thing for our children to learn. -- Fred Rogers
  • A small craft in the ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. The skipper's brain is the vessel's brain and he must give up his soul to her, regardless of his own feelings or inclinations. -- Tristan Jones
  • You have to trust your own instincts about what is appropriate and what is not appropriate and trust your own feelings about what you can and can't show for yourself, and it'll be different for everybody. -- Stephen Daldry
  • Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Cut off from direct experience, cut off from our own feelings and sometimes our own sensations, we are only too ready to adopt a viewpoint or perspective that is handed to us, and is not our own. -- Michael Crichton
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  • God wants our conscience to be certain and sure that it is pleasing to Him. This cannot be done if the conscience is led by its own feelings, but only if it relies on the Word of God. -- Martin Luther
  • It seemed inevitable to try to address my feelings about everything that had happened. To a certain degree, it felt cathartic, but it's less cathartic to me than it is illuminating and helping me navigate my own feelings. -- Mary Chapin Carpenter
  • Your own feelings may be reasonable or unreasonable; how can you expect others to always be reasonable? It is useful to see things in this light and thereby correct the contradictions in your expectations for yourself and others. -- Zicheng Hong
  • I'm so lucky to have been raised the way I have, because my parents believed that everyone had the right to their own feelings, opinions, and existence; as long as they weren't harming others, you had to defend those rights. -- George Clooney
  • Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We feel less lonely when we see other people going through the same things, even if they're fictional characters. -- Isabel Allende
  • It's hard to look at anything with an objective eye. I think people bring themselves into the equation when they watch a movie. They bring their own prejudices, their own biases, their own feelings toward the subject matter, the characters. -- James Ponsoldt
  • A letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person. They permit themselves to write down feelings and observations using emotional syntax far more intimate and powerful than speech will allow. -- Alice Steinbach
  • They praise these tiny indie bands, but if a band finally gets mainstream success, the same people who praised them attack them for 'selling out.' People often play at being nonconformists to mask their own feelings of not fitting in. -- Kyle Baker
  • A poet is simply an artist whose medium is human emotions. A poet chisels away at our own sensibilities, shaping our vision while molding our hearts. A poet wraps words around our own feelings and presents them as fresh gifts to humanity. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
  • There's a contract that I make between myself, the author, and the reader. I have to figure out how to give the reader certain powers of recognition, or his own knowledge, his own feelings, but I provide them, so we're working together. -- Toni Morrison
  • In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up. -- Eddie Izzard
  • Speak up and speak clearly. I want to hear what you have to say because it matters. Let's listen to each other and respect one another's opinions. Although, they may be different, wisdom allows us to be responsible for our own feelings and actions. -- Felicia Johnson
  • In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer.... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our age of bottomless self-love and obsession with our own feelings, Krauthammer suggested, "The too-examined life is not worth living either. -- John Leo
  • My own feelings about the direction in which jazz should go are that there should be much less stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content, on what might be termed humanity in music and the freedom to say all that you want. -- Booker Little
  • Have you ever felt love? Did you need scientific proof of this? How would you have definitively and scientifically proved your love existed? If you could not prove it, would that mean your love didn't exist? What would you trust: your own feelings, or science? -- Derrick Jensen
  • A Great Work of Art is one that truly moves and inspires you. You yourself must be moved. Don't look at art with others' eyes. Don't listen to music with others' ears. You must react to art with your own feelings, your own heart and mind. -- Daisaku Ikeda
  • We don't lie to protect the other person. We lie to protect ourselves from the consequences. We lie because we don't want to deal with our own feelings. We lie because we don't want things to change. Not by our hand. So a wall starts to build. -- Elisa Marie Hopkins
  • Not even the King himself has the right to subordinate the interests of his country to his own feelings of love or hatred towards strangers; he is, however, responsible towards God and not to me if he does so, and therefore on this point I am silent. -- Otto von Bismarck
  • There is a quality of murky grandeur we give ourselves in having our own feelings, recoiling, separate from other things... To feel that we can care for ourselves without seeing our feelings as objects, and liking them as objects, is to be wrong about our care for ourselves. -- Eli Siegel
  • When we leave our child in nursery school for the first time, it won't be just our child's feelings about separation that we will have to cope with, but our own feelings as well-from our present and from our past, parents are extra vulnerable to new tremors from old earthquakes. -- Fred Rogers
  • Every time a poet is about to write, every time the open their mouth to say something, they express their inner world and tell of their own feelings, thoughts, beliefs, and opinions, unless they are deliberately pursuing fantasies which contrast with their beliefs, opinions, thoughts, and the point of view. -- M. Fethullah Gulen
  • My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions. -- Mitch Albom
  • Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. -- Alice Miller
  • It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience. -- Berthe Morisot
  • Each album has its own cycle. We wanted to capture all those feelings and moments for this touring cycle. -- Brad Delson
  • The internet is a wild land with its own games, languages and gestures through which we are starting to share common feelings. -- Ai Weiwei
  • What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity. -- Richard Eyre
  • Most of us have jobs that require some handling of other peoples' feelings and our own, and in that sense, we are all partly flight attendants. -- Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • Everybody's going to approach a character differently, depending upon what they bring to it on their own intellectual level or their feelings from their heart and soul. -- Peter Cullen
  • Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality. -- Maxwell Maltz
  • The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings. -- Stella Adler
  • Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own. -- Nora Ephron
  • Most of the time my own family feels like I don't need anything, I'm tough as nails and I don't have any feelings about anything. They really think that I'm this super tough person. I have a tough exterior, but I get upset. I have feelings and all those things. I wear my heart on my sleeve. -- NeNe Leakes
  • Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. -- Albert Camus
  • Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own. -- Daniel Goleman
  • Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings. -- Eve Ensler
  • and remember, nobody's feelings are more important than your own, so take time to love yourself. -- Zayn Malik
  • Hanajima: To truly love someone is to always put thier feelings before your own...No matter what. -- Natsuki Takaya
  • My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another. -- Shakti Gawain
  • There is no devil in the universe except mankind's own inharmonious thoughts & feelings, both individual and enmass. -- St. Germain
  • Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings. -- Nelson Mandela
  • I've always treated my children as beings in their own right. I respect their feelings and aspirations entirely. -- Grace Kelly
  • It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience. -- Berthe Morisot
  • I love everyone. Why? The moment I dislike someone, they own me. They own my energy, thoughts, feelings, etc... -- Sean Stephenson
  • I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos. -- Kenneth Clark
  • A leader's responsibility to his team is paramount. It overshadows even his own personal feelings at any given time. -- Mike Krzyzewski
  • You need to own your feelings. Get more comfortable expressing yourself.""How about I express you out the nearest window? -- Greg Cox
  • At the trial Stubbs chose to act as his own lawyer, but a conflict over his fee led to ill feelings. -- Woody Allen
  • No person knows your body better than you. The world's most sophisticated and sensitive diagnostic apparatus is your own body's feelings. -- Andrew Saul
  • Once you begin to understand and truly master your thoughts and feelings, that's when you see how you create your own reality. -- Marci Shimoff
  • Following your feelings will lead you to their source. Only through emotions can you encounter the force field of your own soul. -- Gary Zukav
  • Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs. -- Ludwig Feuerbach
  • The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel. -- Joni Mitchell
  • Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery. -- Bertrand Russell
  • My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings. -- Stephen Covey
  • Teamwork requires that everyone's efforts flow in a single direction. Feelings of significance happen when a team's energy takes on a life of its own. -- Pat Riley
  • Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate. -- Albert Camus
  • I think it's really important to always own up to the things that you're not good at and the feelings that you have which are ugly. -- Kate Nash
  • Animals that not only move by their own free will and share feelings with people but also possess sight and hearing qualify as deserving of names. -- Haruki Murakami
  • Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes; but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values. -- Stephen Covey
  • Without an awareness of our feelings we cannot experience compassion. How can we share the sufferings and the joys of others if we cannot experience our own? -- Gary Zukav
  • Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge. -- Alexandra David-Neel
  • Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them. -- Philip Roth
  • The only constant factor in life is our feelings and attitudes toward life. One of the few things that we have total control over is our own attitude. -- Jim Rohn
  • Of course, you can never really know if someone is fully revealing himself to you or not, so all we can go by is our own gut feelings. -- Brian McGinn
  • He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms. -- Willis George Emerson
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