true feelings Quotes

“Promise yourself to live in faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.”

“Hearing about him made me even miss practicing that stupid shot; and so I wrote to him, just casually—since when would a twenty-year-old actually come out and say he missed his best friend?”

“The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”

“I think Rowdy might be the most important person in my life. Maybe more important than my family. Can your best friend be more important than your family?”

“My feelings of love may be unbounded, but my capacity to be loving is limited. I therefore must choose the person on whom to focus my capacity to love, toward whom to direct my will to love. True love is not a feeling by which we are overwhelmed. It is a committed, thoughtful decision.”

“What else have you been hiding?’’

″‘I am glad you have come,’ Jesus said. Daniel could say nothing at all. For a moment he was afraid. Only when the man turned away and his eyes no longer held his own, could he breathe freely again.”

“When we feel deeply drawn to someone, we cathect them; that is, we invest feelings or emotion in them. That process of investment wherein a loved one becomes important to us is called ‘cathexis’.”

“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. ”

“The easiest way to find out how you feel about someone. Say goodbye.”

“Everyone’s afraid of something, Jemma. It doesn’t mean you’re weak. It means you’re alive. It takes real courage to feel that fear and do it anyway.”

“A woman who cannot honor her own feelings will not find them honored by anyone else.”

“There’s this brief feeling of trust before the paranoia that seeps in”

“I lay my hand on hers, memorizing the feel of her skin. “I love you. Those words are yours. I’ll never say them to anyone else.”

“Most adult children of toxic parents grow up feeling tremendous confusion about what love means and how it’s supposed to feel. ”

“She wanted him to know that he was the best thing that had happened to her.”

How, in all the peculiar disadvantages of their respective situations, would he ever learn of her real sentiments?