Feeling Understood Quotes

Stories can encourage us and embolden us to face ourselves and to feel. Stories can make us feel less alone. If we're reading a story that moves us, we can feel that emotion that I feel towards my father or mother or girlfriend. So they can give us late-night company.

When a man can listen to a woman's feelings without getting angry and frustrated, he gives her a wonderful gift. He makes it safe for her to express herself. The more she is able to express herself, the more she feels heard and understood, and the more she is able to give a man the loving trust, acceptance, appreciation, admiration, approval, and encouragement that he needs.

Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood.

When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me".

The most incredible gift you can give someone in a video is to help them feel less alone... The things that make us feel the most alone, have the greatest power to connect us

You always gonna feel me. That's my main thing. When I'm speaking in my music, you gotta feel me.

I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.

It's weird. You find a safe place in someone who you feel like maybe they can't judge you because they don't know you.

Because of you, the world makes sense to me in a way it didn't before. I have a place now, with you.

Our deepest need is to be seen.

I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space.

Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.

I think there's just so many people in the world that don't feel understood, and when you hear a song and you go, 'Oh, that song understands me,' that's an amazing feeling. I get it when I listen to the radio... That's a beautiful part of music.

It is a luxury to be understood.