“Love involves more than just feelings. It is also a way of behaving. When Sandy said, "My parents don't know how to love me," she was saying that they don't know how to behave in loving ways. If you were to ask Sandy's parents, or almost any other toxic parents, if they love their children, most of them would answer emphatically that they do. Yet, sadly, most of their children have always felt unloved. What toxic parents call "love" rarely translates into nourishing, comforting behavior.” IfsKnowsWayChildrenSaidFeelingsAsksFeltParentAnswersHealingKnow HowBehaviorBehaveToxicTeensTranslateComfortingHow To LoveUnlovedSandy Author:Susan Forward
“I felt strange in my own family, because I had a very liberal mind, and I would ask myself, "Why is there this discrimination between men and women?" In our culture, the man should be outside and the woman should be at home. I wanted to study, or meet my friends, and I couldn't. And I felt very different.” MenShouldMindDifferentHomeWantedCultureAsksFeltMy OwnStudyStrangeHe ManMen And WomenMy FriendsDiscrimination Author:Malina Suliman
“If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.” IfsWould BeAsksFeltPaintingResponsePaintPainter Author:Robert Motherwell
“This is advertising that is designed not to look or feel like advertising at all. The one thing we felt we got parents to agree with was that if their children ask them questions about enlisting, they had an obligation to, one, engage, and then two, be informed.” IfsFeelsLooksChildrenTwoAsksFeltParentOne ThingAgreeObligationAdvertisingEnlisting Author:Edward Boches
“A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what the hell is was about.” ShouldAsksFeltHellShould HaveCompositionViewersPrecision Author:Eric Fischl
“I felt like I wasn't doing justice to either side of my life. It wasn't pronounced. Publicity is an awkward thing to do. It is awkward to call people up all the time and ask them for things on a very basic level.” PeopleAsksFeltSidesJusticeLevelsThings To DoAwkwardPublicity Author:Sloane Crosley
“Everyone asks how I felt before the perfect game. You never feel bad when you're in the World Series. You've got all winter to rest.” WorldFeelsAsksGamesFeltPerfectSeriesWinterYankeesNew York YankeesWorld Series Author:Don Larsen
“I have been sought out by a number of people who would have felt uncomfortable coming to a large public meditation. They don't want people to come up and ask for autographs.” PeopleWantHas BeensAsksFeltNumbersMeditationCome UpUncomfortableRamaAutographs Author:Frederick Lenz
“About what mainly constituted what you ask, it was something other. It was just a certain inclination to meet people. And as far as possible, to change something in the other, but also to let me be changed by him. At any event, I had no resistance, I put no resistance to it. I already began as a young man. I felt I have not the right to want to change another if I am not open to be changed by him as far as it is legitimate.” PeopleIfsMenWantYoungCertainAsksFeltAtheismEventsChangedLet MePositive AtheismResistanceYoung ManInclination Author:Martin Buber
“With lines that show an unyielding dedication to craft, these poems are not afraid of meaning or the meaningful. More and more every day, the thinking American asks how she is to believe in love when there is war all about her, and in each of her deeply felt lyrics, Elyse Fenton confronts this question with the kind of tenderness one lover reserves for another. If every poem is indeed a love poem,Clamor is indeed a debut worth reading and about which we must make noise.” IfsThinkingBelieveKindWarShowsReadingAsksFeltLinesLoversMeaningfulNoiseCraftsNot AfraidDedicationTendernessReservesOne LoveLove PoemsDebutBelieve In LoveClamorWorth ReadingUnyielding Author:Jericho Brown
“I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoopy or Garfield or something.” PeopleFeelingsAsksFeltPartyDrawsSorryAsk MeIntroducingPhasesCartoonistFeeling SorryGarfieldSnoopy Author:Matt Groening
“If were honest, we all have some measure of wrong believing in our lives. If you dont believe this, all you need to do is ask yourself, Have I often felt anxious, worried, or fearful that the worst would happen to me and my loved ones?” IfsNeedsBelieveHappensAsksFeltOur LivesWorstHonestWorriedAnxiousLoved OnesFearful Author:Joseph Prince
“The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Each of us emerges from the preconsciousness of babyhood and simply finds himself here, in it, in the world. That experience alone astonishes some people. What is all this - what is the world? And what are we? From the beginning of humanity some have been under a compulsion to ask these questions, and have felt a craving for the answers. This is what is really meant by any such phrase as 'mankind's need for metaphysics.'” PeopleWorldNeedsWritingHas BeensRealPhilosophyHumanityAsksFeltInterestAnswersBehindsMankindCuriosityPhilosopherPhrasesMetaphysicsCravingCompulsionReally MeanBabyhood Author:Bryan Magee
“Global warming is already acting upon us with an accelerated feedback and compounded effect that may be irreversible! We do not have eons or centuries or many decades. Most of us alive today may not even have the luxury of saying 'Après moi, le déluge' because we will be around to experience it ourselves. And if you think it will be 'interesting' or 'exciting,' ask the tsunami survivors if that's how they felt. This time the plutocratic drive to 'accumulate, accumulate, accumulate' may take all of us down, once and forever.” IfsThinkingMayTodayPoliticalAsksFeltInterestingActingForeverAliveEffectsCenturyExcitingDecadesLuxuryGlobal WarmingSurvivorFeedbackLive For TodayTsunamiIrreversible Author:Michael Parenti
“The good enough parent, in addition to being convinced that whatever his child does, he does it because at that moment he is convinced this is the best he can do, will also ask himself: "What in the world would make me act as my child acts at this moment? And if I felt forced to act this way, what would make me feel better about it?” IfsWorldWayFeelsChildrenDoeEnoughMomentsAsksFeltParentCan DoConvincedMy ChildrenThat MomentGood EnoughFeel BetterMake Me Feel Better Author:Bruno Bettelheim
“Stevenson had noble ideas--as did the young Franklin for that matter. But Stevenson felt that the way to implement them was to present himself as a thoughtful idealist and wait for the world to flock to him. He considered it below him, or wrong, to scramble out among the people and ask them what they wanted. Roosevelt grappled voters to him. Stevenson shied off from them. Some thought him too pure to desire power, though he showed ambition when it mattered.” PeopleWorldWayIdeasMatterWantedYoungDesireAsksFeltWaitingPureAmbitionNobleThoughtfulVotersFlocksFranklinIdealist Author:Garry Wills