“The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.” PersonsDifferentFeelingsAbleStrongNotesPassionateSensitiveMaturePassagesDelicateSymphonyNuanceDifferentiateMature Person Author:Rollo May
“The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction. * * * A name "fast anchored in the deep abyss of time" is like a star twinkling in the firmament, cold, silent, distant, but eternal and sublime; and our transmitting one to posterity is as if we should contemplate our translation to the skies.” IfsShouldMindFeelingsRealityNamesStarsSkyColdFameEternalSilentDelicateContemplatingSolitarySublimeAbyssAbstractionTranslationsPosterityFirmamentTwinkling Author:William Hazlitt
“Be as delicate as possible. If communication accomplishes something on the gross but damages something on the level of feeling then it is a spiritual loss! The feeling is more important for life.” IfsImportantFeelingsSpiritualLossLevelsCommunicationAccomplishDamageShockDelicateGross Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
“People will go into a relationship, if it's a brand new relationship, it's so exciting because it's something brand new, it's variety, it's different. And you're so excited by the feelings. And what most people try to do because they don't want to lose that, they try to control it to make it certain. And if they make it so certain then you become bored in the relationship. It's a delicate balance.” PeopleIfsWantTryingDifferentFeelingsCertainLosesBalanceExcitingExcitedBrandsVarietyBoredDelicateBrand NewNew Relationship Author:Tony Robbins
“The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.” MenFeelsFeelingsDifferencesDogConsciousLovelyDelicateDelicacyCoarse Book:Four Novels of George Eliot Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.” MeanSoulFeelingsBeautifulCertainHumilityResolutionDelicateSmallestBenevolencePromptsElevation Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater