Mother Angelica Quotes

I can access emotions very easily.

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

Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you.

It's one thing to think about something, but it's another thing to actually feel it.

I'm not anti-intellectual, but primarily, I try to feel things. Emotions aren't always rational; it's not possible to put them into words.

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.

Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality.

The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it.

The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.

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

Some things were made to be felt

Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?

...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use for work, that they might be different creatures.

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

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.

I tend to absorb a lot of what other people are feeling.

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

I've never lived in the visual world. I live very much in an emotional-contact world.

At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.