David Levithan Quotes

Women are more in touch with their feelings, they're more emotionally developed, they know what's important in life, and the men run around like idiots trying to figure that out until they meet a woman that can show them what's important.

As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet.

Emotional intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling.

The important thing is not whatever nonsense the voices are saying, but what the voices are feeling.

George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself to feel things, to feel love or wrath, hatred, rage.

It is not half so important to know as to feel.

Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience.

I perceive the world through the wide range of emotions that whirl all around in it.

I don't have a great intellect, and I can't compete with people who do. I feel certain things. And all I know, and all I can do, is what I feel.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.

Woman is very much more in contact with their feeling than a man. As a matter of fact, woman always teach to men how to love.

Feel provides an important channel of information.

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

Admiration is the emotion furthest from understanding. ~Sosuke Aizen

People change based on what they feel, not what they know. Which means that understanding all that advice doesn't matter if there's no deep, profound, visceral awareness of why it's important.

If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.

It's easy for us to feel separate from other people and from other forms of life, especially if we don't have a reliable connection to our own inner world. Without insight into our internal cycles of pleasure and pain, desires and fears, there is a strong sense of being removed, apart or disconnected. When we do have an understanding of our inner lives, it provides an intuitive opening, even without words, to the ties that exist between ourselves and others.

When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.

The wise are wise only because they love.

You cannot know what you do not feel.

When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.

Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.

I would then say that there are two kinds of feeling. The first is to feel in the sense of concentrating your emotions on something immediately available for your understanding: you make your understanding out of the emotions you have about it. The second is to feel in the sense of being affected without trying to understand: something is felt, you do not know what, and it is more important to feel it than to try to understand it, since once you try to understand it you no longer feel it.