„Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.“

„And in his eyes he had the look of the cat who inspires a desire to caress but loves no one, who never feels he must respond to the impulses he arouses.“

—  Anaïs Nin, kniha Delta of Venus

Zdroj: Delta of Venus

„Too many hearts have been broken
Failing to trust what they feel.
But trust isn't something that's spoken
And love's never wrong when it's real.“

—  Dan Fogelberg singer-songwriter, musician 1951 - 2007

Believe in Me.
Song lyrics, Windows and Walls (1984)

„Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.“

—  Maria Montessori Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician 1870 - 1952

Attributed in Words of Wisdom (1990), edited by William Safire and ‎Leonard Safir, p. 58

„The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better feel for faithfulness than the timid man who hides behind the law and never finds out who he is at all.“

—  Brennan Manning writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine 1934 - 2013

Zdroj: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

„I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.“

—  Marcel Duchamp French painter and sculptor 1887 - 1968

„People who fail focus on what they will have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end.“

—  Anthony Robbins Author, actor, professional speaker 1960

„A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.“

—  Oscar Wilde Irish writer and poet 1854 - 1900

„People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.“

—  Agnes Repplier American essayist 1855 - 1950

in "Women and War" (May 1915)

„If you try to look
But you don't touch
Then you won't touch
But you'll never feel
And if you don't feel
You'll never cry
And if you don't cry
Then you'll never heal.“

—  Harry Chapin American musician 1942 - 1981

If You Want to Feel
Song lyrics, Living Room Suite (1978)

„Why should Ossian sing of battles? For never more shall my steel shine in war. I remember the days of my youth with grief; when I feel the weakness of my arm. Happy are they who fell in their youth, in the midst of their renown! They have not beheld the tombs of their friends, or failed to bend the bow of their strength.“

—  James Macpherson Scottish writer, poet, translator, and politician 1736 - 1796

"The War of Caros"
The Poems of Ossian

„This is what Achilles will feel like when he is old. And then I remembered: he will never be old.“

—  Madeline Miller, kniha The Song of Achilles

Zdroj: The Song of Achilles

„The true American knew something of the facts, but nothing of the feelings; he read the letter but he never felt the law.“

—  Henry Adams journalist, historian, academic, novelist 1838 - 1918

„He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings.“

—  Anne Frank victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929 - 1945

Zdroj: The Diary of a Young Girl

„Like her father, he wasn't comfortable sharing his thoughts and feelings. She tried to explain that she needed to be closer to him, but it had never seemed to make a difference.“

—  Nicholas Sparks, kniha The Notebook

Zdroj: The Notebook

„In the middle of the work of art, an artist often feels that he is failing. And he starts interfering with his inspiration. That is a mistake. The mistake. It is best to push on through. Such works frequently turn out to be the best. To fail is a very ordinary experience for an artist. To fail and fail and still go on, marks his character. Most people cannot bear to fail, even once. They think of security.“

—  Agnes Martin American artist 1912 - 2004

1980 - 2000, The Skowhegan Lecture', 1987

„I have always heard in the music what I am finding out from the books: the man was a tyrant who beat his musicians with insults and temper tantrums. He never smiled when conducting (not even in rehearsals!) never thanked or complimented his men, never made them feel they were valuable partners or had even done a creditable job. He would fail to give them cues, then blame them with curses and insults for needing them! Besides being a compulsive perfectionist, he was childish, petulant, inconsiderate, monomaniacal, and monstrously self-centered. His technique was fear, and I always heard that fear in his music…Reading about him - especially books by people who worked with him - strongly confirmed what I had felt in my bones“

—  Donald Vroon American music critic 1942

On the subject of Toscanini - from Vroon's foreword to The mystery of Leopold Stokowski, By William Ander Smith, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1990, ISBN 0838633625

„It is impossible for a man who secretly violates the terms of the agreement not to harm or be harmed to feel confident that he will remain undiscovered, even if he has already escaped ten thousand times; for until his death he is never sure that he will not be detected.“

—  Epicurus ancient Greek philosopher -341 - -269 př. n. l.

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Sovereign Maxims

„Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that's enough.“

—  Robert Heller British magician 1932 - 2012

Robert Heller; cited in: Hubert J. M. Hermans (2012) Between Dreaming and Recognition Seeking. p. 107

„Charles was a stubborn Swede, you know, and he himself never felt the need to explain his feelings about where he stood and about past statements. But I feel free now to elaborate on his actual attitudes. He never wanted to be regarded as a hero or leader, and he never had political ambitions. His prewar isolationist speeches were given in all sincerity for what he thought was the good of the country and the world… He was accused of being anti-Semetic, but in the 45 years I lived with him I never heard him make a remark against the Jews, not a crack or joke, and neither did any of our children.“

—  Anne Morrow Lindbergh American aviator and author 1906 - 2001

On her husband, Charles Lindbergh, in The New York Times (20 April 1980) http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/27/specials/lindbergh-jews.html