„In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.“

„You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.“

—  Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963

Also attributed to Chester Bennington (singer of Linkin Park)

„Generally, you can be humble only if you feel really good about yourself — and you want to help those around you feel really good about themselves.“

—  Clayton M. Christensen Mormon academic 1952 - 2020

Christensen (2011) in: Harvard Business Review (2011) HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself. p. 12
2010s

„And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.“

—  David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

Zdroj: The Realm of Possibility

„Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.“

—  T.S. Eliot 20th century English author 1888 - 1965

„I want to take you as close as you can get, I want to feel your ecstasy as you feel mine, I want to bridge the final gap between us, I want us to come together in a place where each can know the other does not lie.“

—  Norman Spinrad, kniha The Void Captain's Tale

Zdroj: The Void Captain's Tale (1983), Chapter 15 (p. 201)

„It's easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.“

—  Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

Zdroj: Speak

„There's so much revenue that comes in from a cap-and-trade system that you can really go to a person in a congressional district and get enough votes there by saying, ‘What do you need? What do you want?“

—  Barbara Boxer American politician 1940

Americans for Prosperity. http://www.afphq.org/062609-cap-and-trade-fight-puts-obama-presidency-line

„“Tomorrow is another day” is something you can say only to yourself, not to the person you want to comfort.“

—  Fausto Cercignani Italian scholar, essayist and poet 1941

Examples of self-translation (c. 2004), Quotes - Zitate - Citations - Citazioni

„The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am.“

—  Christine Feehan American writer

Zdroj: Oceans of Fire

„If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.“

—  Lawrence Block American writer 1938

Zdroj: Writing the Novel: From Plot to Print

„If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.“

—  David Levithan, kniha Every You, Every Me

Zdroj: Every You, Every Me

„A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.“

—  Jim Morrison lead singer of The Doors 1943 - 1971

„I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.“

—  Bill Watterson American comic artist 1958

Zdroj: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

„You can live your life two ways: You can use your language to manipulate. You can use it as a tool to get what you want. But the problem with that is that it assumes you know what you want, and that you're right. And that's a problem, because there's lots of things you don't know, and if you get what you want you may find that (A.) You didn't really want it, and (B.) that you're not the person that started the journey towards that. That happens a lot to people, especially when they use their language in a manipulative way.“

—  Jordan Peterson Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology 1962

Other

„You can only build a life from what is real. Unless you know and admit to what you really think, really feel, really want, really need and actually do, you are working with illusion and you are going nowhere.“

—  Teal Swan American spiritual teacher 1984

„Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment…you can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.“

—  Eckhart Tolle, kniha A New Earth

A New Earth (2005)

„I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.“

—  Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963

„There’s only so long you can feel sorry for a person before you come to feel that their affliction is an act of malice committed by them against you.“

—  Margaret Atwood, kniha Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

Zdroj: Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

„What is a friend if not someone you feel close to, someone you like being with, someone you can confide in and share pleasure with.

-Jeremy Malory“

—  Johanna Lindsey American writer 1952 - 2019

Zdroj: A Loving Scoundrel