“John Hay indicates that dealing with people directly as a holder of political office "requires a stronger heart and a more obedient nervous system than I possess.”
Source: All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
“The author observes that the friendship of John Hay and Charles Francis Adams benefited from a physical distance that required correspondence, meaning that feelings only implied in person had to be explicitly expressed.”
Source: All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
“We know not which most to wonder at, the faithfulness of God or the unbelief of His people. He keeps His promise a thousand times, and yet the next trial makes us doubt Him. He never faileth; He is never a dry well; He is never as a setting sun, a passing meteor, or a melting vapour; and yet we are as continually vexed with anxieties, molested with suspicions, and disturbed with fears, as if our God were the mirage of the desert.”
Source: Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
“Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions too huge to be felt.”
Source: The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
“You have had me spinning for days, for I am drunk off the words that flow endlessly from your deep red lips that taste of wine.”
Source: Write like no one is reading 2
“You make me feel like I am everywhere when I am right here, completely still with you.”
Source: Write like no one is reading 2
“But now he understood why someone would write things like 'she walked in beauty like the night' and so forth. Because poetry was a barrier against raw emotions. It distilled them into bearable music, allowed one to accommodate them a little at a time.”
Source: What I Did for a Duke
“Organizing your emotions reclaims your power over any given drama. Nothing is stronger than your own mind.”
“I’m a feeler. I feel everything deep within my core. Even when I don’t want to. I don’t know where my emotions stop and my empathy begins. I feel from the tips of my toes to the follicles of my head. I feel with every fiber, every molecule, every tissue, marrow, muscle, and bone in my body. I feel.”
Source: The Counting-Downers
“Keep testing your conviction from time to time, with your intellect as well as emotions to ensure you are on the right path!”
Source: Can I have it all?