“Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady, yet probably it does tend to dry one's feelings out a little, as if by exposing them to a vigorous wind.” IfsLittlesDoeSelfFeelingsWindLaughterPityDryAntidoteVigorousSelf PityExposingMalady Author:Mary McCarthy
“My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or just not giving a sh-t to write something you know people are going to criticize.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingWritingSelfFeelingsBitsConsciousCriticizeLeapSelf ConsciousLeap Of Faith Author:Conor Oberst
“The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings, opens the way for mourning and - with luck - reconciliation.” WaySelfFeelingsOpportunityParentFamilyExpressionLuckAccessMourningResentmentTrue SelfReconciliationGreat OpportunityFree Expression Author:Alice Miller
“Woe to those who get what they desire. Fulfillment leaves an empty space where your old self used to be, the self that pines and broods and reflects. You furnish a dream house in your imagination, but how startling and final when that dream house is your own address. What is left to you? Surrounded by what you wanted, you feel a sense of amputation. The feelings you were used to abiding with are useless. The conditions you established for your happiness are met. That youthful light-headed feeling whose sharp side is much like hunger is of no more use to you.” FeelsSelfUseFeelingsDreamLightWantedSuccessUsedDesireHouseLeftSidesImaginationSpaceConditionsMetsEmptyFinalsHungerUsed To BeUselessFulfillmentAddressesWoeAbidingEmpty SpaceOld SelfAmputationDream House Author:Laurie Colwin
“Prayer is intended to increase the devotion of the individual, but if the individual himself prays he requires no formula; he pours himself forth much more naturally in self-chosen and connected thoughts before God, and scarcely requires words at all. Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.” IfsKnowsRealSelfFeelingsIndividualPrayerPrayingIncreaseDepthConnectedDevotionChosenFormulasInward Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt
“It must not be thought that the cowardly feeling of caution and uneasy self-preservation is innate in the English character. It is the consequence of a corpulence derived from wealth and of the training of all thoughts and passions for acquisitiveness.” SelfCharacterFeelingsPassionWealthTrainingConsequencePreservationCautionInnateCowardlyUneasySelf Preservation Author:Alexander Herzen
“Listen, after almost twenty years of call-in radio, I can tell you that the main thrust of too many lives is an overemphasis on feeling good instead of doing good. Being admired and respected by the self and others has taken a back seat to feeling good, or, at least, avoiding feeling bad. And, oh boy, the excuses some of you can come up with for doing so!” YearsI CanSelfFeelingsLife IsBoysTakenTwentiesCome UpRadioExcuseFeel GoodSeatsAvoidingDoing GoodThrustFeeling Bad Author:Laura Schlessinger
“people's feelings about themselves change when they change the way they handle their money. Once they begin treating their money with respect, their self-respect shoots up as well.” PeopleWayWellsSelfFeelingsMoneyHandleSelf Respect Author:Suze Orman
“What I would like you always to do is what I try humbly to do myself, that is, never to say or to do anything which would wound the feelings or the self-respect of any human being, and to give special consideration to all who are in any way repressed.” WayGivingTryingHumansSelfFeelingsHuman BeingsSpecialLike YouWoundsSelf RespectConsiderationRepressed Author:Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
“We're all human so of course there are days when I'm feeling insecure. When that happens, I take time to reflect on how far I've come and how far I will continue to go - it helps me feel empowered and self-assured.” FeelsHumansSelfHelpingFeelingsHappensCoursesHelp MeTake TimeInsecureAssuredEmpoweredFeeling InsecureHow Far I've Come Author:Demi Lovato