Bearing fruit Quote by William James

Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so…

— William James

Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy:…

— Emile M. Cioran

The refusal to feel takes a heavy toll. Not only is there an impoverishment of our emotional and sensory life, flowers are dimmer and…

— Joanna Macy

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

— Matthew Simpson

Nothing that truly matters Can ever evaporate, Be excised, Burnt out of your soul.

— Scott Hastie

“When you see and feel the sensations you are experiencing as sensations, pure and simple, you may see that these thoughts about the sensation…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and of fresh…

— Elizabeth Drew

The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends.

— Cullen Hightower

While we are born with curiosity and wonder and our early years full of the adventure they bring, I know such inherent joys are…

— Sigurd F. Olson

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

— Rex Harrison

Any natural, normal human being, when faced with any kind of loss, will go from shock all the way through acceptance.

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.

— Jonathan Tropper