Martha Beck Quotes

Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost.

Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!

[T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove.

It's always coldest before the warm.

To think is an act. To feel is a fact.

Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.

Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again.

Feel the world, instead of trying to understand the world.

I just wanted to see how the shorts felt again.

Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.

I test my bath before I sit, And I'm always moved to wonderment That what chills the finger not a bit Is so frigid upon the fundament.

The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.

The steps aren’t enough. Feel the music.

We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.

We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.

You can see and feel everything in clothes.

Men have higher body temperatures than women. If your heating goes out in winter, I recommend sleeping next to a man. Men are like portable heaters that snore.

Thou canst not speak of what thou dost not feel.

I couldn't hear a thing in the world but you. And it was so cold then, and so silent, and I loved you so much. Now it's hot and dead quiet again, and I love you still.

Alone, human beings can feel hunger. Alone, we can feel cold. Alone, we can feel pain. To feel poor, however, is something we do only in comparison to others.

We must never pretend appreciation, but if we feel it, then we must express it

I can’t exactly describe how I feel but it’s not quite right. And it leaves me cold.

I've never had anything cold and wet touching my butthole before. That was quite the experience!

If you don't feel it, you'll never achieve it.