“Many ordinary Americans make themselves feel better by saying what the famous daytime TV idiot says. But it leads to absolute calamity and disaster, as we are seeing.” FeelsSeeingTvsOrdinaryAbsolutesDisasterIdiotFeel BetterCalamityDaytimeDaytime Tv Author:Rush Limbaugh
“[People] think [the government is] coddling people, like when people's feelings are hurt at the colleges and they send somebody in to make them feel better. Stuff like that drives [voters here] crazy.” PeopleThinkingFeelsFeelingsGovernmentStuffHurtCrazyCollegeVotersFeel Better Author:Collin Peterson
“There's a diversion between economic reality - integration, global village, everybody depending on everybody else - and cultural reality, which is people feeling invaded, undermined, threatened, wanting to have "stand-your-ground" legislation all over the place. It's alarming because at the moment, the fear is outweighing the benefits, and that's partially because the benefits have been so unequally distributed that lots of people don't feel better off. They feel threatened, angry and despairing.” PeopleFeelsHas BeensMomentsFeelingsRealityEconomicBenefitsAngryVillageFeel BetterLegislationThreatenedIntegrationBetter OffDiversionGlobal VillageStand Your Ground Author:Duncan Green
“When someone comes to you to talk about a problem, if you move the conversation on to a discussion of potential solutions, you fuel their creative problem solving abilities on average by 20% - not to mention you make them feel better! You make them smarter and more empowered to tackle challenges.” IfsFeelsProblemMovingChallengesAbilityCreativeConversationSolutionsAverageDiscussionFuelSmarterFeel BetterProblem SolvingEmpoweredCreative Problem Solving Author:Michelle Gielan
“Jews are told that they should spend their lives helping others and when they make a lot of money it really bothers them. So, as a way to decrease their guilt, they try to help the underdog. They think, "Why should I be rich when so many suffer?" They feel better once they run to the party that claims to defend the underdog, the Democrats.” ThinkingWayFeelsShouldTryingHelpingRunningSufferingPartyRichClaimsGuiltDemocratJewHelping OthersBotherLots Of MoneyFeel BetterShould IDecreaseUnderdog Author:Jackie Mason
“There is no fundamental truth and there's nothing to be connected to: I just believe that [LSD] makes you feel better.” FeelsBelieveFundamentalsConnectedFeel BetterLsdJust Believe Author:Ayelet Waldman
“I'm feeling better than anybody expected me to so I'm still maintaining a pretty normal schedule, I'd say.” StillsFeelingsNormalExpectedFeel BetterSchedulesMaintaining Author:Jimmy Carter
“I feel better about my life every day. My kids get older. My life is very rich and full of wonderful things. I've been very lucky, careerwise.” FeelsKidsLife IsRichWonderfulLuckyFeel BetterWonderful Things Author:Ben Affleck
“When I'm doing interiors - especially the ones where you really have full creative freedom - it's about creating an environment for people to feel so comfortable and at ease. I want them to become inspired to live and feel better.” PeopleWantFeelsCreativeEnvironmentComfortableCreatingInspiredEaseFeel BetterInteriorsCreative Freedom Author:Lenny Kravitz
“I'm still an Apple person, but let's just say the magic aura is gone. In a way that was a sad thing to lose, but I feel better for it. It's just a machine now, not linked with any greater mission or mystique.” WayFeelsPersonsStillsLosesGoneGreaterMagicMachinesMissionsApplesFeel BetterLinkedAurasMystiqueSad Things Author:Alex Gibney
“Indeed we have souls. And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe. That listens to water with a river flowing, or water falling in rain and is lifted up by that and listens to a wonderful singer, wonderful musicians, listens to maybe Duke Ellington or Frank Sinatra or listens to Odetta and Mary J. Blige. Yes, and thinks whoo! And thinks, yes, hmm, all right now. My soul has been washed. I feel better, I feel stronger.” IfsThinkingFeelsLooksPersonsHas BeensSoulHelpingFallStarsBitsWaterReligiousWonderfulConditionsRight NowMusicianRainRiversStrongerSingersMy SoulAweFrankMaryFeel BetterDukesAmazementHmmMary J Blige Author:Maya Angelou
“Placing a halo around your own head by saying 'I am a pacifist' and 'I don't believe in using violent tactics' doesn't make the world a better place. It might make YOUR world better and YOU might feel better about YOURSELF, but it does NOTHING whatsoever for the victims.” WorldFeelsBelieveDoeMightVictimDon't BelieveViolentAbout YourselfFeel BetterBetter PlaceTacticsPacifistHalos Author:Gary Yourofsky
“I never, nor will I, put another person down to feel better about myself. I will live and die by what I do, not what anyone else thinks about me.” ThinkingFeelsPersonsDiesFeel Better Author:Carlos Mencia
“I remember it made me feel better because so many of my friends at school. Were doing that stuff and doing that stuff on sleep overs. But I just didn't feel ready. It wasn't like I had any judgment of it being two women. It would have scared me as much if not more. I was like a three month period in which all the words sleep over was code for was "let's get together and touch each other's vaginas." and I was. Haunted. And I remember going home and feeling like I couldn't tell my mother even though she would've understood and probably laughed.” IfsFeelsMadeTwoFeelingsHomeSchoolTogetherRememberMotherThreeStuffSleepReadyMonthsPeriodsJudgmentUnderstoodMy FriendsScaredCodeLaughedFeel BetterGet TogetherThree MonthsGoing Home Author:Lena Dunham
“God does not owe me an explanation for what He does in my life. And if I am looking for that to feel better about my suffering, then I'm not going to get it.” IfsFeelsDoeSufferingExplanationFeel Better Author:Rick Warren
“[Russians] want to bring us down to make them feel better about the failure of the Soviet Union. I don`t mean bring us down as in collapse, but bring us down a notch in a big way.” WayWantFeelsMeanBigsUnionsSovietCollapseFeel BetterSoviet UnionNotches Author:Daniel Fried
“Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and purge all the time: fried oysters, po' boys, muffulettas, beignets, coffee and doughnuts. I tried to medicate myself with food when people made fun of me or hit me with a bat in school. I'd always turn to food. Knowing what I now know, I'd turn to me.” PeopleKnowsFeelsTryingMadeSchoolUsedTurnsFunBoysKnowingEatingCoffeeDisorderFeel BetterBatsEating DisorderOystersStop TryingDoughnutBingeBeignets Author:Richard Simmons
“People feel better because Donald Trump says all kinds of things no one else would say and we get certain tendencies out of our system. So if attacking immigrants, say, is a substitute for doing something worse, there's at least a scenario under which that's a better alternative than something else that might have happened.” PeopleKindAll KindsFeel Better Author:Tyler Cowen
“I'm not making fun of it because I want to make fun of it. I'm making fun of it so I feel better. I don't want people to think any time there's a tragedy that I'm going to make a joke about it. It's only funny to me because it's personal to me. And that was always the goal. It wasn't to be this insult person.” PeopleThinkingFunGoalJokesTragedyInsultFeel Better Author:Pete Davidson
“I think the country needs a good laugh. There are so many things dividing us right now, in the real world, that the timing is right for escapist entertainment that makes you feel better about your own family. If this family can survive, than everyone has got a chance.” ThinkingWorldRealCountryChanceLaughingReal WorldTimingFeel BetterGood Laugh Author:Will Packer
“For me, as Yasmine, I do this every day. I wake up in the morning, and if I can do something to make someone feel better, I do it. I do not wait to be invited; I think that's the worst thing we can do. I make it my job to wake up every day and do one thing for one person and make them feel better.” ThinkingWaitingMorningWorstWake UpFeel Better Author:Yasmine Elmasri
“Never trust anyone who has no doubts. And I'm not talking about scepticism either: scepticism can be a healthy thing. You can have an argument with someone who's a sceptic. When I say 'cynic', I mean someone who has given up, and they want you to give up too, so it makes them feel better about themselves.” GivingMeanDoubtHealthyGiving UpArgumentFeel BetterNever TrustScepticismScepticNever Trust Anyone Author:Billy Bragg
“A lot of people will say to me, they'll say, "When is Trump going to be gone?" People who are thinking that way and are waiting, for those folks I worry that every day when they wake up and Trump is still president, every day is November 9. That's not a good headspace to be in. It just happens to be the case that the best thing you can do to feel better is to be actively engaged in pushing back, and that also happens to be the best thing that you can do for the country right now.” PeopleThinkingCountryWaitingPresidentWorryWake UpBeing The BestFeel BetterNovember Author:Jason Kander
“It can be difficult going through a period of time where you feel depressed because it can become your identifier. In the sense that you wake up, you're depressed; you talk to your friends, you're complaining that you're depressed; you talk to your parents, you're unmotivated. You know what you could do to try to overcome it - although obviously there's no cure - but you start to feel like, 'what will happen to me if I feel better? Who am I when I'm happy. I'm so used to feeling like this.'” TryingFeelingsParentDifficultOvercomingWake UpComplainingFeel Better Author:Halsey
“If I can get a hike in on a regular basis I know I will feel better and I will be stronger. I set goals for myself - like learning to sew, learning to dance - things that are not work related. I find that play and craft with my family bring me a lot of joy, along with all things vintage.” JoyGoalMy FamilyStrongerFeel BetterSetting Goals Author:Tara Moss
“You've got to go down in order to feel better about yourself when you come up.” About YourselfFeel Better Author:Ian Hunter
“My album Pain Medicine might not make all of America feel better, but for single mothers and women who have been hurt as well as women who seek personal life fulfillment it will make them feel as if they have someone they can relate too. The obstacles and issues that I have gone through in my life are more then one could imagine so if I can make it they can also make it through anything.” PainMotherHurtImagineObstaclesFulfillmentFeel BetterPersonal LifeBeen HurtSingle Mother Author:K.Michelle
“You've got to just let it go and know that other people are enjoying the fact that you've fallen over. It makes you feel better about the next time you laugh when you see another person fall over. These things go in cycles; someone has to fall over at some point, even the coolest man on earth. Ryan Gosling has fallen over...once. He has! It's just a fact, Ryan Gosling has fallen over and we should all embrace that.” PeopleMenEarthFallEnjoyLaughingEmbraceFallenOver ItFeel BetterNext TimeLet It Go Author:James Corden
“Most of us are flawed, complicated people, and we're all trying very hard to disguise that or hide it from the public. Ultimately, we respond to someone who's capable of doing heroic things but has issues or problems in their life that they can't seem to resolve. I believe audiences identify with that. All of us have those secrets and those things that we wish we could improve about ourselves. And when you have someone who's heroic and flawed, I think it makes us feel better about ourselves.” PeopleThinkingTryingBelieveProblemI BelieveWishSecretAudienceCapableComplicatedResolveHeroicFeel BetterDisguiseFlawed Author:Treat Williams
“I don't encourage people to litigate when facing discrimination: It is so hard - painful and difficult. It's draining financially, emotionally, and professionally. But when you see that you could be the person who impacts the conversation in a meaningful way - or that you could inspire a few people to feel better about themselves, to speak up, to inspire others, to create this broader wave of change - I don't regret that at all.” PeopleSpeakDifficultInspireRegretWavePainfulMeaningfulDiscriminationFeel Better Author:Ellen Pao
“I'm very concerned with the healing process of a song and music in general. I think that's why I make music - it heals me and I'm extremely sensitive to people who tell me that this or that song made them feel better or helped them go through a difficult time in their life. I think that music is almost medicine. I don't know if that's my philosophy, but that's my thought process.” PeopleThinkingPhilosophySongDifficultHealingMusic IsConcernedHealSensitiveFeel BetterMy ThoughtsDifficult Times Author:Olivia Merilahti
“I'm 44 now; I feel better than I did when I was 34. I've got more clarity now. I wake up in the morning, and I write my blog, and then I go upstairs, and I work on music. And I do that every day. That's what I do. I don't check in once a week and think, "Oh, I've gotta come up with something now." I'm always writing. I was just in a coffee shop in Chelsea last night, just killing time, waiting for a friend, and I sat and wrote enough for three good songs. I love it. This is my life. It's all I do.” ThinkingWritingEnoughNightSongWaitingMorningWeekWake UpKillingCoffeeClaritySatFeel BetterLast NightCoffee ShopTime To Kill Author:Bob Mould
“I wanted to finally feel better about understanding. I painted my wife because I wanted to understand her. I can talk to her, but I didn't understand why I was so compelled.” UnderstandingWifeMy WifeFeel Better Author:Damian Loeb
“I just try to keep busy. I find sometimes, when I put my emotions into records, I don't feel as depressed. It's so easy to get depressed. Sometimes it makes me feel better. Sometimes it makes me feel the same. But, the same squared. So, monumentally the same.” TryingSometimesEasyEmotionBusyFeel BetterMake Me Feel BetterKeep Busy Author:Rob Crow
“I think having pointers and having guidance from mentors is very important, but it never actually embodies what you go through. And if something doesn't feel good, why do you repeat it? If you feel good bemoaning an audition for a week, go for it. But if you feel better bemoaning an audition that didn't go very well for 30 minutes because you believe in the craft and the process, then I suggest you do that. And that's what I suggest to myself. The alternative is way too painful and destructive.” ThinkingBelieveImportantWeekPainfulFeel GoodGuidanceMentorFeel Better Author:Nina Arianda
“When you're about three years old, you start to learn how to be manipulative. I know this from my own experience - I created this expression between sadness and dissatisfaction to get people to make me feel better, to get me presents. I created this face based on movies without even understanding it. I felt attracted to faces and body language. I remember I was always fascinated with why some people are considered beautiful and some are not. Everybody's got two eyes and one nose, but it's the small details. It is why we fall in love or why we want to kill somebody we haven't even spoken to.” PeopleEyeBeautifulRememberFallLanguageUnderstandingSadnessFalling In LoveFeel BetterDissatisfactionBody LanguageManipulativeMake Me Feel Better Author:Nir Hod
“There's nothing worse than an anxiety-filled, fearful actor who just needs that next job, because they're not gonna get that next job. Any time I got a job that made me feel good about myself, or made me feel, "Hey, I'm working my way up," then good adds to good. Because it makes you feel better about yourself, and that makes you more attractive, I think.” ThinkingFeel GoodMy WayAttractiveAbout YourselfFearfulFeel Better Author:Jane Lynch
“I didn't write the memoir with any sort of intention of feeling better. I wrote the memoir because I had a weird need to write a good story. But once I was done, I did feel better about myself. Not better, just calmer. Because a tremendous onus had been lifted off my day-to-day.” WritingDoneFeelingsIntentionMemoirFeel Better Author:Leigh Newman
“I hope America manages to steer itself away from partisanship and back to patriotism; we are all Americans. And as long as I can make people laugh and feel better, I'm happy.” PeopleLongLaughingManageFeel BetterMaking People Laugh Author:Trevor Noah
“I worry that's what people are going to think about me if they kind of go backwards. But if that didn't happen to you, I'll feel better.” PeopleThinkingKindWorryFeel BetterBackwards Author:Jonathan Dee
“I'd do a song in the studio and it would explain everything I'm going through so perfectly that when I went home and I felt down I could listen to that to make me feel better. It's a documentation of my life. I think it's just important to put it out there.” ThinkingImportantHomeSongFeel BetterMake Me Feel Better Author:Sam Smith
“I always try to stick to the script because I want to respect the writers, and I want to respect the director. But if the director and my fellow actors are okay with me playing with it a little bit, then I definitely want to play with it. I definitely want to do that, because I tend to... when I put things in my own words, it comes out way better. It flows naturally, it just feels better. I can put some weight into the words. Even in comedy, it just comes better.” TryingComedyOkayFeel Better Author:Rob Riggle
“We live in a culture of quick fixes. We want to feel better and we want to feel better now. I believe that's why many turn to alcohol and drugs because they want to numb the pain of life. In my life I have a choice. I can sit with my depression and look at Jesus or I can sit with Jesus and look at my depression. What I mean by that is I can focus on what's broken and wonder where God is or I can sit in the companionship of Christ who suffered for us and worship him in the middle of the mess. That gives my pain meaning and context.” GivingBelieveMeanPainChoicesCultureJesusI BelieveChristWonderFocusBrokenDrugWorshipAlcoholMessFeel BetterCompanionshipNumb Author:Sheila Walsh
“I try to think professionally that my body is my job and just get up and do my modeling work, you always feel better after it.” ThinkingTryingFeel BetterModeling Author:Stella Maxwell
“I don't think I had a bad influence on anybody. I made people feel better about themselves.” PeopleThinkingInfluenceFeel Better Author:John Waters
“I've been working to define my individual style and vision and I believe it is reflected in the music. I feel better mentally, physically and spiritually so I've brought that to the music. I still make love songs so there are some messages in the music about men appreciating their women. I'm also still bringing party and club hits but with more substance in the music.” MenBelieveSongIndividualI BelievePartyVisionStyleAppreciateFeel BetterMaking Love Author:Chingy
“Beauty and makeup are not things people should think of as vain. It's an expression of yourself and can be seen as an art form as well. Also, it just makes people feel good because they're taking care of themselves. Anything you do to take care of yourself will inevitably make you feel better. That's the effect makeup has.” PeopleThinkingArtCareTake CareFeel GoodVainMakeupFeel BetterTake Care Of Yourself Author:Olivia Culpo
“One of the most famous lines in contemporary Russian poetry is "Erica makes four copies and that's enough." That's the ethos we're aiming for. This is not to say I don't want lots of people to read my book, I do. I especially want people to read it who will feel better, and safer, or at least understood.” PeopleBookEnoughPoetry IsFeel Better Author:Masha Gessen