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“Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.”

Ifs Love Would Be Felt Imagine Horrible Bearable Horrible Things

Author:R. K. Milholland

“My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I was used to. Their damp marine weather, blowing in from the southwest, came in the right direction. When the mountains are hidden under a low sky, one might almost imagine oneself to be in Britain.”

Light Might Used Felt Cities Imagine Sky Mountain Lows Oneself Weather Evening Britain Marine Right Direction Seattle Damp Lingering Homely Latitude

Book:Driving Home: An American Scrapbook

Source: Driving Home: An American Scrapbook

“Doing Prometheus was what you imagine being an actor is like when you're five. In a spacesuit, on another planet, getting killed by an alien. It was a real treat, it felt like being a part of movie history.”

Real Actors Felt Five Imagine Planets Treats Aliens Prometheus

Author:Rafe Spall

“Jesus will turn your sorrow into joy. One can only imagine the shock and bewilderment the Apostles felt when the Lord told them he must go away. Though they could not understand it at the time, his departure was for their benefit. The same is true of the unexpected setbacks and tragedies we experience in this life...When I consider the times when I have been confounded by events that seemed so contrary to what I thought God wanted for me, I should be mindful that they were permitted by the Lord's inscrutable providence for my own good, as difficult as that might be to fathom.”

“Having children can smooth the relationship, too. Mother and daughter are now equals. That is hard to imagine, even harder to accept, for among other things, it means realizing that your own mother felt this way, too--unsure of herself, weak in the knees, terrified about what in the world to do with you. It means accepting that she was tired, inept, sometimes stupid; that she, too, sat in the dark at 2:00 A.M. with a child shrieking across the hall and no clue to the child's trouble.”

Source: Living Out Loud

“Every life and every childhood is filled with frustrations; we cannot imagine it otherwise, for even the best mother cannot satisfy all her child's wishes and needs. It is not the suffering caused by frustration, however, that leads to emotional illness, but rather the fact that the child is forbidden by the parents to experience and articulate this suffering, the pain felt at being wounded.”

Needs Children Facts Pain Mother Suffering Wish Felt Parent Imagine Childhood Emotional Filled Illness Frustration Wounded Forbidden Best Mother

Book:For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

“Before I had my first child, I never really looked forward in anticipation to the future. As I watched my son grow and learn, I began to imagine the world this generation of children would live in. I thought of the children they would have, and of their children. I felt connected to life both before my time and beyond it. Children are our link to future generations that we will never see.”

World Firsts Children Grows Felt Imagine Generations Son Connected My Time My Son Links Parenthood Anticipation Future Generation This Generation

Author:Louise Hart

“It's not realistic to imagine that any poem will last forever. Our species won't last forever! We try to capture and preserve our impressions of reality because it's all going away: everything we think and remember, everything we've ever felt, everyone we love.”

Thinking Trying Reality Lasts Remember Felt Forever Imagine Species Impression Preserves Going Away Capture Realistic Imagine That Remembers Everything

Author:James Arthur

“The one thread that was most surprising and most consistent was the lack of fear that people felt at the worst moment. They felt a lot of fear in early stages, when they're just realizing what's happening. But then things really seemed to be at their peak of terror, the fear went away. You can imagine why that's useful. At that moment your brain needs to focus all its attention on surviving, so people will feel a sense of calm as their brain tries to sort out a plan.”

People Needs Feels Trying Moments Felt Realizing Attention Brain Focus Imagine Plans Worst Stage Happenings Calm Terror Consistent That Moment Surprising Thread Surviving Worst Moments

Author:Amanda Ripley

“Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.”

Men States Felt Difficult Imagine Horror Understood Negative Hunger Satisfied Starvation

Book:Journey to the Interior of the Earth

Source: Journey to the Interior of the Earth

“I went through what I imagine thousands of other women have felt. I told myself to stay calm, to be strong, and that I had no reason to think I wouldn't live to see my children grow up and to meet my grandchildren.”

Thinking Children Reason Strong Grows Felt Growing Up Imagine Calm My Children No Reason Grandchildren My Grandchildren Stay Calm

Author:Angelina Jolie

“When I first met Lars [Von Trier] he was sat on the sofa wearing socks and sandals. He wanted me to imagine my cat had died. It took me a while to think about it, but then I felt myself physically crumble. I got myself into a state that was actually pretty hard to get out of.”

Thinking Firsts Hard States Wanted Felt Imagine Mets Cat Died Sat Sock Sofas Sandals

Author:Mia Goth

“You could make an analogy to a security guard who, three weeks prior, was mowing lawns for a living. The second he puts a uniform on and that badge, he's a man. I imagine the majority of us have felt the wrath of the over-zealous security guard guy. Is there something lying dormant in the man, that's waiting to be pumped up with that kind of power? I don't know. Does it reveal him? I don't know. Does it change him? I don't know.”

Knows Men Kind Doe Lying Guy Three Felt Waiting Imagine Week Security He Man Majority Uniforms Wrath Lawns Analogies Badges Dormant Zealous Security Guards Mowing Mowing The Lawn

Author:Johnny Depp

“I think there's some evidence that when it comes to being a doctor or nurse, a police officer or therapist, that empathetic engagement leads to burn-out. Imagine if you're dealing with severely ill children, and you felt their pain all the time, and the pain of their parents - you wouldn't be able to do that job for very long. It would kill you.”

Ifs Thinking Children Long Able Pain Jobs Felt Parent Imagine Evidence Doctors Police Ill Officers Engagement Nurse Therapists Police Officer Burn Out Empathetic

Author:Paul Bloom

“Her mother died at the age of 29, essentially turning her face to the wall and deciding to die. And so we can only imagine the agony she felt. And Eleanor Roosevelt really wanted to make her mother happier, and - and to make her live, you know, make her want to live. And there's something about, you know, when your mother dies, this sense of abandonment. I think Eleanor Roosevelt had a lifelong fear of abandonment and sense of abandonment after her parents' death.”

Thinking Knows Want Age Wanted Faces Mother Dies Felt Parent Imagine Wall Died Agony Abandonment Lifelong Eleanor Mother Died

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook