David Levithan Quotes

I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

I'm very big on feeling.

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to write poetry.

A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.

I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.

Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.

When you're not sure your anger is justified, the thing to do is ask yourself exactly where it's coming from.

There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.

My life day in and day out is accessing my emotions and bringing them to the forefront.

It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

One of my worst fears is being a self-indulgent person.

I've always been pretty in touch with what I'm feeling.

I can admit and say that I have feelings.

I respect anybody that is very in tune with their feelings.

I am a very sensitive person.

Everybody goes home at the end of the day and looks at themselves in the mirror and sometimes they see things that they want to see that they like, and sometimes they see some things that they don't like.

Would I have fired me? Knowing me? No.

Weren't you always distracted by expectation, as if every event announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place to keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside you going and coming and often staying all night.).

we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.

I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.

When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even experience them as friends coming to show you what you have not yet investigated thoroughly enough.