Golda Meir Quotes

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

I feel like when I say something sad, I mean it.

A lot of my friends and the people who know me know I'm a feeling person. I feel, deeply.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.

A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.

And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.

I'm never going to be a flat-line guy. My heart is going to be on my sleeve with every shot.

I live my life pretty emotionally, for better and for worse. I'm pretty thin-skinned and transparent. I lead with my heart, and I wanted to make a movie that did the same.

In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.

We're a pretty open-book family; we kind of lead with our hearts. There's nothing to hide.

I think it's easier to be cynical. I think the temptation, often, among writers is to write about anything other than real, true, deep feelings.

I think what it was is that Tupac was extremely passionate, very honest and raw in his approach to communicating. He understood communicating. And I think he just did it from a deep place within.

I say what I'm feeling, and a lot of people feel the same way.

We're trying to say that if you, in love, when you're not true to yourself, the love won't last. Because love is complex, and we always have the dark sides and the sad sides.

I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.

Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent or fraudulent.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

I want feelings to be expressed, to be open, to be natural, not to be looked on as strange. It's not weird if you feel deeply.

I can't put bars on my insides; my love is something I can't hide.

I think you can't really reach the emotionally intense stuff without having built a genuine light, playful, connected energy, to begin with.

So release yourself from that. Don't be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word 'love' to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.

I think we're past the time in history where you have to come out and say, "I'm happy all the time! I'm a joker! I'm a crazy man!" I think people understand that I can turn that switch on but that I'm also a sensitive, normal human being with feelings and I know how to express those too.

Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.

Is it possible to say what one really feels?