“It s often just enough to be with someone. I don t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You re not alone.”
“The best way out is always through.”
“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
“I wish you could be kissed, Jane, he said. Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this. He flailed an arm toward the stars.”
“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”
“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”
“Emotions come and go and can t be controlled so there s no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.”
“The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It s more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.”
“Don t allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily”
“Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.”
“We try so hard to hide everything we re really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most. People try to bottle up their emotions, as if it s somehow wrong to have natural reactions to life.”
“in a world full of temporary things you are a perpetual feeling.”
“These violent delights have violent ends.”
“But each time you use spirit, you re more likely to go crazy.” “Already crazy about you, Sage.”
“That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.”
“Life is meant to be felt. Else why live? Valleys make the mountains.”
“Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.”