“I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.” PeopleThinkingFeelsShouldTendencies Author:Maura Tierney
“I've found that if I tell somebody 'Eat this and don't do that,' it's not only not helpful, it's counterproductive because even more than being healthy, we want to feel free and in control, and as soon as somebody tells us to do something, there's a tendency to do just the opposite.” IfsWantFeelsFoundHealthyOppositesTendenciesHelpfulCounterproductive Author:Dean Ornish
“The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him feel that he is a part of some larger entity which transcends the boundaries of the individual self. This psychological urge to belong, to participate, to commune is as primary and real as its opposite. The all-important question is the nature of that higher entity of which the individual feels himself a part.” FeelsImportantRealSelfIndividualSocietyHigherWorshipEmpathyOppositesBoundariesTendenciesPsychologicalPrimariesUrgesMechanismEntityProjectionIdentificationImportant QuestionsCommunes Author:Arthur Koestler
“In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. People who are polite, modest or even humble in Europe fall easily into a rage here, get into fights, destroy other people. . .” PeopleFeelsFallFightingWhiteEuropeWeakHumbleRageTendenciesAggressionModestPoliteOutburstTropics Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski
“I look at the bird in the cage and see the air, not only the air that is around the bird when it flies, but I see and feel the formative tendency of air in its form. When I do all this, then what lives in the forms becomes enlivened and spiritualized for me.” FeelsLooksFormAirBirdTendenciesCages Author:Rudolf Steiner