Our good depends on the quality and breadth of our emotions.
Our good depends on the quality and breadth of our emotions.
There are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.
To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.
To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
. . . her heart lived in no cherished secrets of its own, but in feelings which it longed to share with all the world.
If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind
If boys and men are to be welded together in the glow of transient feeling, they must be made of metal that will mix, else they inevitably fall asunder when the heat dies out.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories