Feelings Matter Quotes

One of the basic needs of every human being is the need to be loved, to have our wishes and feelings taken seriously, to be validated as people who matter.

Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well.

When she cried, he would say, "there is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.

I think our hearts are very chemical and we change the way we see people according to how we feel about them. That's what love is, in a way.

But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

A kid should be told that you can have feelings.

Human beings are not creatures of logic; we are creatures of emotion. And we do not care what's true. We care how it feels.

The goal, and the ultimate achievement, is to make people feel as well as think.

Feelings are facts. Look straight at 'em and deal with 'em. Work it through, as honestly as you can. If God is anything like a middle-class white chick from the suburbs, which I admit is a long shot, it's what you do about what you feel that matters.

While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact on people as long as their feelings tilt them against you.