Marilyn Ferguson Quotes

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

If you are willing to change your thinking, you can change your feelings. If you change your feelings, you can change your actions. And changing your actions - based on good thinking - can change your life.

You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed — so you were a good man just the same.

I am surprisingly very sensitive.

I'm an emotional person. I chose films based on emotions.

I am the type of person that likes to put myself in someone's shoes to 'get' it.

I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.

The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is.

The only way to get change is not through the courts or - heaven forbid - the politicians, but through a change of human consciousness and through a change of heart. Only through the arts - music, poetry, dance, painting, writing - "can we really reach each other.

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

The more our feelings diverge, the more deeply felt they are, the greater is our obligation to grant the sincerity and essential decency of our fellow citizens on the other side.

Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.

Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

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

I feel everything more deeply. Every action I take, I think of her first. That's a big change for me. That - and no sleep!

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.

The music was more than music - at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound connected instantly with something deep and joyous.

I'm a very emotional person, and I love feeling things, so I tend to approach things kind of openly.

Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.

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.

It's hard to articulate what everybody else is feeling.

I feel guilty when people say I'm the greatest on the scene. What's good or bad doesn't matter to me; what does matter is feeling and not feeling. If only people would take more of a true view and think in terms of feelings. Your name doesn't mean a damn, it's your talents and feelings that matter. You've got to know much more than just the technicalities of notes; you've got to know what goes between the notes.

When you feel things deeply and you think about things a lot and you think about how you feel, you learn a lot about yourself.

To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.