Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

The moment you start dividing thought and feeling, the ratio of sinitive from the intuitive, you're dead. There is no difference between emotion and thought. You can be unreasonable.

To know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels

There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn’t. When we are objective we are subjective too. When we are neutral we are involved. When we say ‘I think’ we don’t leave our emotions outside the door. To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.

The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.

I don't own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of feeling unthinkingly. I don't want to drown. My head is my heart's lifebelt.

There is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequences of his passions--does not find images rising in his mind which soothe the passion with hope or sting it with dread.

Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")

I do believe that almost everything I do is based on my feelings, not on my intellect. Though But we won't chase ourselves up the particular sentiment, or we'll get lost.

Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.

When you feel the rise of unpleasant emotions, take a moment and make an effort to identify their source. The answers are far more available than you may have previously believed. Accept such feelings as your own in the moment. Do not shove them underneath, ignore them or try to substitute what you think of as good thoughts.

I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion - and it definitely hurts me in some situations, and helps in some situations, like obviously writing and stuff is my favourite thing to do because I get to use all of my emotions and express them in that way.

The intellect is no longer the chairman of the board - it is an employee. It becomes a tool in the service of the heart.

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

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

All thinking is done with the glands. Logic is added later to tidy things up.

Hardest emotion? They're all pretty damn hard; I don't know really if there's one specifically, but I do think, I don't know what's happening or what I'm feeling when I'm actually listening.

I think grief is a step towards strength because it allows you to be porous and take everything in, and have it transform you. What will sit within you is despairing, but at least it's feeling. You're not numb. Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.

Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.

I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work

You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.