Lincoln Steffens Quotes

Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

It's always a nice feeling, having people think that you feel things much deeper than you're allowed to say, but this isn't true. If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.

If I'm happy, you can tell, and there's no way of faking it.

Feelings don't lie.

Give people not only your care, but also your heart.

True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.

You don't have to act as if you care; you just have to care enough to act.

Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good reason, even if that reason is not always apparent.

Pity is easy, but it is difficult to care.

Said I loved you but I lied, cause this is more than love I feel inside.

What actors need to do is to find a way to show people their despair, their joy, their pain, their exhilaration. All of these deep, deep emotional things - good and bad - so that if you're able to do that, then there's a kind of resonance that happens.

The most important thing is that you actually care, that you do something to the very best of your ability

Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.

Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the attempt to shape a better more generous self. Heartbreak is the beautifully helpless side of love and affection and is just as much an essence and emblem of care as the spiritual athlete's quick but abstract ability to let go... But heartbreak may be the very essence of being human, of being on the journey from here to there, and of coming to care deeply for what we find along the way.

The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love.

I don't like it when someone can look you in the eye and lie to you, or pretend that they're more than you.

How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?

I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.

The type of acting that I'm interested in, that I aspire to, is where I try and drag a lot of myself into whatever character it is. They can be very different types of characters, but at the heart of it, I always wanted to be a very, very believable and rooted in reality. One of the ways of doing that is to root it as much as you can in your own experiences and then tint those with different hues, different colors to give the different characters their way.

A man of truth must also be a man of care.

But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

We need to really start taking care of each other and not profiting off of each other's miseries. That shouldn't be our reality. That shouldn't be what we aspire to. It's not admirable in any way, shape, or form.

If someone takes responsibility without force, that is love.

Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into rulers, controllers, manipulators.