Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
William James

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.
William James

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
William James

Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art.
Lawrence Halprin

The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I had not lived through it.
Lawrence Halprin

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
George Eliot

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
George Eliot

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
George Eliot

Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
Charles Horton Cooley

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
Aeschylus

With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt... because love is an amazing feeling.
Britney Spears

By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.
Jo Brand

Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
Carl Sandburg

I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.
Jennifer Aniston

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
Thomas Carlyle

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
Thomas Szasz

I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited.
John Travolta

Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.
Cat Stevens

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
John Burroughs

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
Paula Poundstone