Albert Einstein:

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

Albert Einstein:

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

Ann Radcliffe:

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

Carlos Castaneda:

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman:

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

David Borenstein:

Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.

Erich Fromm:

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

George Eliot:

[I]t is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

Helen Keller:

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Karla McLaren:

Emotions are celebrated and repressed, analyzed and medicated, adored and ignored -- but rarely, if ever, are they honored.

Lord Byron:

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Lord Byron:

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Pearl S. Buck:

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

Rachel Carson:

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.

Sara Paddison:

You may not always be able to feel a deeper heart feeling right away, but stay focused in the heart. The sincerity of your effort can reconnect you to your heart current and start the juices flowing. To plug in, think of someone you love or remember what feels good, maybe a fulfilling experience. Feelings help you remember.

Virginia Woolf:

When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.

Walter Weckler:

Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst.

Winston Churchill:

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.