Quote by Marcel Proust

“All that we truly possess are our own sensations; it is in them, rather than in what they sense, that we must base our…

— Fernando Pessoa

“All that we truly possess are our own sensations; it is in them, rather than in what they sense, that we must base our…

— Fernando Pessoa

“But none of the feeling which the joys or misfortunes of a real person arouse in us can be awakened except through a mental…

— Marcel Proust

“Some feelings are rooted too strongly in the body to exist without it, and this one, desire, is one of them.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“As we contemplate the enormous variety of factors that must come together to produce a specific sense of self, our attachment to this “I”…

— Yongey Mingyur

“Moreover, painful feelings can only arise and remain in our mind because of our present self-grasping.”

— Kelsang Gyatso

“But when we begin to live from within outward, in touch with the power of the erotic within ourselves, and allowing that power to…

— Audre Lorde

“Pain does not define us, neither does joy; our deepest definition is independent of our experiences.”

— Bryant McGill

“Well then – I see two ways of letting things take their course – Create one’s own sensations with the help of a flamboyant…

— Jacques Vache

“we are most fully ourselves when we admit that we are emotional beings, that we are defined by the ways we find though our…

— Greg M. Epstein

“The feelings that hurt most, the motions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are…

— Fernando Pessoa

“The mind confines our outlooks to a mere bundles of desires, pleasures, prejudices, and fears to safeguard the body it inhabits.”

— Rajeev Kurapati