I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.
Abraham LincolnVanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.
Taylor SwiftEven a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl JungGravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert EinsteinWe must act out passion before we can feel it.
Jean-Paul SartreI had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.
David BowieThe wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWe should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Marcus Tullius CiceroA man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
Arthur SchopenhauerTears come from the heart and not from the brain.
Leonardo da VinciTo a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.
Jerry SeinfeldWhat air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.
Stephen CoveyFamily quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.
F. Scott FitzgeraldIt’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.
Keanu ReevesIs there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
VoltaireI sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.
Adam SandlerEarly on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.
Charles BukowskiWhat women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.
Kevin HartYou cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Albert CamusI have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don’t know how much experience you’ve had with contemporary Hebrew. It’s quite difficult.
Noam ChomskyEverybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
F. Scott FitzgeraldIt’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.
Joe BidenI love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.
EminemHatred is blind, as well as love.
Oscar WildeI feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.
Taylor SwiftI have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
John SteinbeckDon’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.
Lou HoltzLife is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert EinsteinMy focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
Jim CarreyAgainst my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
Bertrand RussellMen who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
Bertrand RussellOf course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.
Dolly PartonMy favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.
Taylor SwiftI think sometimes the best training is to rest.
Cristiano RonaldoTo wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Margaret ThatcherWhen you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.
Douglas AdamsTheories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
Hosea BallouI’m such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.
AuroraThe only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert EinsteinThe human heart is the same the world over.
Billy GrahamThe pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.
Bertrand RussellThe person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund BurkeThose who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Albert CamusVanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
George EliotCensorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
Noam ChomskyThe reward of suffering is experience.
Harry S. TrumanAs a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.
Frank OceanDepression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.
Joyce MeyerWe are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?
Henry David ThoreauBut by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.
Ho Chi MinhWhile discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.
Jocko WillinkOf course I get hurt.
Jackie ChanThe only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
Albert EinsteinI have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother TeresaBeauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Edmund BurkeI had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.
Maya AngelouNo one loves the man whom he fears.
AristotleIn this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.
Taylor SwiftIt could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.
Conor McGregor