Justifying Your Feelings Quotes & Sayings

On an afternoon like this, I would usually take my bike. My wrist brace, though, makes it impossible to steer, and the last thing I need is irreparable damage to an already non-functioning extremity. — Katie Klein

Our emotional mind will harness the rational mind to its purposes, for our feelings and reactions
rationalizations
justifying them in terms of the present moment, without realizing the influence of our emotional memory. — Daniel Goleman

The sensations of colors on the palette can be spiritual experiences. — Wassily Kandinsky

Dillon; somewhere in there is the guy I met four years ago. The decent one that wasn't always so fucking mad at the world. I get why you do the shit you do, but take it from someone who knows, it's not worth it. — Melyssa Winchester

Don't hold onto negative feelings by justifying why you are right and someone else is wrong. — Deepak Chopra

Once truth had become oracular rather than factual, evidence was irrelevant. — Timothy Snyder

It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God. — Thomas Merton

I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them. — Loretta Lynn

Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own. — Daniel Goleman

Have you ever felt a stirring in your heart as a touching story brought tears to your eyes or as you heard a soaring symphony or a captivating song on the radio that opened a new window in your soul? Maybe you have felt a similar exhilaration while watching a sunset, camping out under the night sky, or holding a newborn babe. Something inside of you quickened, and for a moment, some heavenly beauty connected your inner self with the divine. C. S. Lewis referred to such experiences as joy. These are remnants and reminders of the perfect world God designed for us to live in - the shadow of places He longs to take us to, the reality of the other world He's preparing for us. — Sally Clarkson