Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue. Yet emotions are also our indispensable tool for navigating, for feeling our way through, the much larger domain of stuff that isn't susceptible to proof or disproof, that isn't checkable against the physical universe.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.

He's thinking more with his heart than with his brain.

A feeling is not a fact.

I always do as my heart tells me.

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

I'm a firm believer in your gut being undefeated.

I know when people are with me or not. It's an instinct.

Some people spend their time and thoughts in feeling, hearing, seeing, and listening. Whatever cannot be felt or experienced they will not accept. We call these people 'emotional.'

You can have the best of intentions and think you're doing the right thing but you fall down when you're going against your own instinct.

Let your soul lead the way, cause I'm that enemy that you can't see.

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

Your heart often knows things before your mind does.

We are divided between those who think with their heads and those who know with their heart. Consider Harriet Miers. If you think about Harriet Miers, of course her nomination is absurd. But the President didn't say he thought about his selection. He said this: "I know her heart." Notice how he said nothing about her brain? He didn't have to. He feels the truth about Harriet Miers.

Feeling is the language of the soul. If you want to know what's true for you about something, look to how you're feeling about it.

What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign.

Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason

I do not communicate by words alone. In fact, rarely do I do so. My most common form of communication is through feeling. Feeling is the language of the soul. If you want to know what's true for you about something, look to how you're feeling about it... Hidden in your deepest feelings is your highest truth.

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.