“Sonderbarerweise sprechen wir oft davon, aber es ist gerade [grenzenloses Empfinden], was wir lebenslang vermeiden.”
Source: the Man Without Qualities
“Have you ever been in love? It's a question you're asked a lot as a kid from your friends, adults, anyone. They're curious. How do you know you're in love? Do we even really know what love means? It's just a word to define a feeling.”
Source: Waiting For You
“When we feel powerless in a hostile world we can at least practice quelling the enmity in our minds.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the source of modern man's power. With it he has transformed the planet, annihilated space, and trebled the world's population. But it is also a power which has, like everything human, its negative side, in the desolating sense of rootlessness, vacuity, and the lack of concrete feeling that assails modern man in his moments of real anxiety.”
Source: Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
“...In this place you could not feel anything, except pain and foreknowledge of pain.”
Source: 1984
“The intellect can only think about or analyze joy, but cannot feel it.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Think less and feel more and see what happens.”
Source: UNLEARN WHAT YOU KNOW
“Det var dagen efter självständighetsdagen den 4 juli och lukten av svavel från fyrverkerierna blandade sig med lukten av salt från havet - det var sommar.”
Source: Gone Girl
“When you realize that the feeling you have — is — the response you choose, you are free in that moment.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Sure. You want to be touched, inspired and made to feel alive. But a relationship is like a bridge where you meet other people half-way. That means if you want to be touched, inspired and made to feel alive, you have to be touching, inspiring and bring the fire of your aliveness to the union of your companionship.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life