Contrast Quote by Chris Crutcher

“What I'm feeling, I think, is joy. And it's been some time since I've felt that blinkered rush of happiness, This might be one…

— Craig Silvey

Something about losing a loved one, I hated life for a while.

— Alex Cora

The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this knowledge freed…

— Matt de la Pena

It was not the beautiful or pleasant feelings that gave me new insight, but the ones against which I fought most strongly: feelings that…

— Alice Miller

I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive…

— Anonymous

“With winter the feeling had deepened. I would see a neighbor running along the sidewalk in front of the house, training, I imagined, for…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“The value of experience, real or imagined, is that is shows us how to - or how NOT to - live. In reading about…

— Nina Sankovitch

The cancer battle, it helped me put a lot of things in perspective and gave me time to reflect and think.

— Daniel Jacobs

“As long as we’re preoccupied with our former traumas and triumphs, or our fears and dreams about what might happen down the road, or…

— Lama Surya Das

It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced…

— Adrien Brody

“(...) all my life I had been looking forward for something happening, some intrinsic event that would alter my life, and now suddenly, inspired…

— Henry Miller

My life is a roller coaster. A lot of good moments, a lot of bad moments, too. At the end of the day, it's…

— Brandon Moreno