"One makes use of pigments, but one paints with one's feelings."

-- Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

#Feelings Quotes #Use Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.”

Source : Dean Young (2007). “Embryoyo”, McSweeneys Books
“This contest between the secular and religious visions of government is really the main choice to be made. It won't be decided in one election, but it is a basic choice between an open and progressive Iraq and one that is backward and continues to fall behind.”
“Never question the beauty of what you are saying because someone reacts with pain, judgment, criticism. It just means they have not heard you.”
“The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.”
“Learn to manage your mind. Do not let a situation lure you into thinking negatively. Sometimes you will fail but you'll learn for the next time. Every time a negative thought comes at you ZAP IT! Replace it with positive thoughts. That takes energy but the result will be stamina, positive stamina, the necessary ingredient for success.”
“If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.”
“One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old.”

Source : Ellen Gilchrist (2010). “The Writing Life”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling.”

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