“You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?”

“You know what they're writing about
Baby you know what they're writing about
It's a thing called love down through the ages
Makes you wanna cry sometimes
Makes you feel like you wanna lay down and die sometimes
Makes you high sometimes
But when you really get in it lifts you right up.”

Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician

“It was like the entire world was colluding to make me feel insane, and it was doing a really good job.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

“It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you.”

Harvey Pekar (1939–2010) writer

“You know what? When someone does that for me, it makes me feel really good. It's like you're important.”

Anne Murray (1945) Canadian singer

“You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.”

Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist

“When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.”

Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer

“My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you.”

Elise Broach (1963) American writer

“There's that kind of money in the world. It aggravates you to have it, makes you miserable to spend it, and you hate yourself when it's gone. And when you hate yourself, you feel like spending money. Except there's no money left. And no hope.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist