„… no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it.“

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— Milan Kundera, buch Identity

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„We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it.“

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— Milan Kundera Czech author of Czech and French literature 1929

„Some of us got this feeling stuck inside, all the time, like we’ve done something wrong. Like we ourselves are something wrong … We drink alcohol because it helps us feel like we can be ourselves and not be afraid. But we punish ourselves with it.“

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— Tommy Orange, buch There There

There There (2018)
Quelle: As quoted in [Buchanan, Rowan Hisayo, There There by Tommy Orange review – Native American stories, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/18/there-there-tommy-orange-review, 9 August 2018, The Guardian, July 18, 2018]

„Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.“

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— Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

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„There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.“

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— Oscar Wilde, buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

„we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves… But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.“

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— Brennan Manning writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine 1934 - 2013

Quelle: Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

„… he did not want me to seek the whys, because there are some things that happen for which we can formulate no whys, for which whys simply do not exist and, perhaps, are not necessary.“

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— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, buch Purple Hibiscus

Quelle: Purple Hibiscus

„How do we create only games that we actually feel like playing, because we can opt out at any time? In the economic field, at least, the answer is obvious. All of the gratuitous sadism of workplace politics depends on one’s inability to say “I quit” and feel no economic consequences.“

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— David Graeber, buch Bullshit Jobs

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (2018)

„I feel the world is the way it is because we don’t talk about ourselves ever. We don’t talk about how we feel, we don’t talk about how we experience things. And not knowing yourself is when you project your insecurities and your fears and your bullshit onto other people. And so that just kind of creates a whole collective where nobody’s aware of themselves, and if you don’t have self-awareness then how can we have collective awareness?“

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— Lauren Jauregui Cuban-American singer and songwriter 1996

Fifth Harmony Was Just The Beginning For Lauren Jauregui, Nylon Magazine, September 5, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtrtUi4Vmnw,

„Because the thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it.“

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— Lisa Scottoline American writer 1955

Quelle: Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman

„It's not like people don't know that horrible things are happening. But at the same time, because so many horrible things are happening, it can feel exhausting and insurmountable. … That can make you feel like there's nothing we can do--that the people in charge are all powerful. But at the same time, people don't forget the experience of struggle--and that there are victories along the way, amid the defeats. … There are some victories even amid the setbacks.“

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— Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor American academic and author 1950

The fight against racism doesn't stop here (2013)

„There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.“

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— Oscar Wilde, buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

„The fact is there are no stories I can tell my friends that will make them feel better. History cannot be erased, although we can soothe ourselves by speculating about it.“

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— Margaret Atwood Canadian writer 1939

Selected Poems 1976-1986 (1987), Marrying the Hangman

„We are all afforded our physical existence so we can learn about ourselves.“

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— Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

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„There is only one thing we can do about this: live the way we are supposed to live, as our Constitution commands us to, with dignity and respect for all. Being an American is not easy. It is hard. We are required to keep some serious promises. We are judged by a high standard, one we crafted for ourselves in the founding documents of the republic, the ones that talk about the equality of all people, the ones that tell us that government is of the people, by the people and for the people. We need to live by this, at home and abroad, and it is just about the only thing we can do to face the hatred of those who want to destroy us. Our best defense is to stay true to who we are. Our best defense is to refuse to live in fear, of them, of ourselves, of anyone.“

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— Michael Ignatieff professor at Harvard Kennedy School and former Canadian politician 1947

From "Living Fearlessly in a Fearless World" Ignatieff Commencement Address to Whitman College (USA), 2004

„For all of us who are alive, life is the real issue. Yet so often we judge our existence by the things that happen to us—by whether things are going our way or not. Sometimes we feel strong—strong enough to dictate our future. Sometimes we feel that we can make things happen. Then there are times when we feel totally helpless. But through all the dramas and bumps, there is life. There is the very powerful, very existence of every single human being.“

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— Prem Rawat controversial spiritual leader 1957

Toronto, Ontario, Canada May 27, 1994
1990s

„You know, feeling and action are always linked, one can't exist without the other. It's sort of a hippie thing.-Wes“

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— Sarah Dessen, buch The Truth About Forever

Quelle: The Truth About Forever

„Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about Jim. But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.“

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— Elisabeth Elliot American missionary 1926 - 2015

Quelle: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

„those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers…“

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— Anna Quindlen journalist, Novelist 1952

Quelle: How Reading Changed My Life

„When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.“

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— William Glasser American psychiatrist 1925 - 2013

[p.70]
Choice Theory (1997)

„For this is our central human problem: that we are almost constantly the victims of our emotions, always being swept up and down on a kind of inner-switchback. We possess a certain control over them; we can 'direct our thoughts' -- or feelings -- in such a way as to intensify them. This is certainly our most remarkable human characteristic: imagination. Animals require actual physical stimuli to trigger their experience. A man can retreat into a book -- or a daydream -- and live through certain experiences quite independent of the physical world. He can even, for example, imagine a sexual encounter, and not only experience all the appropriate physical responses, but even the sexual climax. Such a curious ability is far beyond the power of any animal.“

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— Colin Wilson author 1931 - 2013

Quelle: G. I. Gurdjieff: The War Against Sleep (1980), p. 23

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