“To say I have played through four World Cups, two Lions tours, 91 international games and a ridiculous number of injuries and other setbacks gives me an incredibly special feeling of fulfilment. I know myself well enough to know that I will never truly be satisfied.” KnowsWorldGivingWellsTwoEnoughFeelingsGamesNumbersFourSpecialGive MeInternationalRidiculousSatisfiedCupsInjuryLionsSetbackWorld CupFulfilment Author:Jonny Wilkinson
“... While nervous tension may be a component of stress, one can be stressed without feeling tension.” MayFeelingsPainStressNervousTherapyTensionInjuryComponentsStressed Author:Gabor Mate
“Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whisky, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without feeling a thing or, at least, without letting on.” MenFeelingsBodyAgePainWorstSubjectsClothesTherapyInjuryCigarIrritationWhiskyBagpipes Book:The Diamond Age Source: The Diamond Age
“Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.” MayFeelingsReligiousMusicMoralMankindMusic IsSensualInjuryExcessIndulgeGratificationIndulge In Author:Joseph Addison
“However long the horror continued, one must not get to the stage of refusing to think about it. To shrink from direct pain was bad enough, but to shrink from vicarious pain was the ultimate cowardice. And whereas to conceal direct pain was a virtue, to conceal vicarious pain was a sin. Only by feeling it to the utmost, and by expressing it, could the rest of the world help to heal the injury which had caused it. Money, food, clothing, shelter - people could give all these and still it would not be enough; it would not absolve them from paying also, in full, the imponderable tribute of grief.” PeopleThinkingWorldGivingLongStillsEnoughHelpingFeelingsPainSinGriefVirtueStageHorrorEmpathyDirectUltimateHealInjuryClothingsCowardiceShelterShrinksTributeVicarious Book:A pocketful of pebbles Source: A pocketful of pebbles
“When I read or hear of the mutual injuries of England and Ireland, I fancy it would have been a blessed thing had the sea never flowed between the two countries. Had they been all in one, surely there would have been more unity between them of interests and of feelings. But let us hope that days of peace and general enlightenment will arrive by ways past man's finding out.” MenWayHas BeensTwoCountryFeelingsPastInterestSeaFindingsEnlightenmentEnglandBlessedUnityFancyInjuryMutualIrelandTwo Countries Book:Memoir and Letters Source: Memoir and Letters