„Anything that feels good couldn't possibly be bad.“

— Angelina Jolie

Last update April 8, 2021.

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American actress, film director, and screenwriter 1975

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„What if the only way not to feel bad is to stop feeling anything at all, forever?“

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„When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.“

— Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865

Quoted in 3:439 Herndon's Lincoln (1890), p. 439 http://books.google.com/books?id=rywOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA439&dq=%22when+i+do+good+i+feel+good%22: Inasmuch as he was so often a candidate for public office Mr. Lincoln said as little about his religious code as possible, especially if he failed to coincide with the orthodox world. In illustration of his religious code I once heard him say that it was like that of an old man named Glenn, in Indiana, whom he heard speak at a church meeting, and who said: "When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion."
Posthumous attributions

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„For a moment he felt good about this. A moment or two later he felt bad about feeling good about it. Then he felt good about feeling bad about feeling good about it and satisfied, drove on into the night.“

— Douglas Adams, book So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

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„The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.“

— James W. Loewen, book Lies My Teacher Told Me

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„Now that I've won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last long as the bad. Not even close.“

— Andre Agassi, book Open. An Autobiography

Source: Open

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„So I'm gonna hurl myself against the wall,
'Cause I'd rather feel bad than not feel anything at all.“

— Warren Zevon American singer-songwriter 1947 - 2003

"Ain't That Pretty At All", written by Warren Zevon and LeRoy Marinell
The Envoy (1982)

Feeling

„Sometimes if you go to see a very, very, happy movie, a Hollywood movie, you can walk out of the movie and feel very depressed because it's so false. And other times you see a very depressing movie and it makes you feel good, happy because you've seen something real. You've seen something that talks to you and says that your bad feelings are legitimate. And then you can go further with that and say, "Well, this bad feeling is good, and this good feeling is bad, but is it good to feel bad and is it bad to feel good?" I'm concerned with feelings. And sometimes when I feel good, I'll write something very negative because I have the strength to do it. But when I really, really feel very bad, what I want to do is make myself feel better, so I'll write something happier.“

— John S. Hall Poet, author, singer, lawyer 1960

Quotes from interviews

Happiness, Falseness, Time, Feeling

„The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.“

— Gretchen Rubin American writer 1966

Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

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„It was a tool for me. I could express what I was feeling, whether it's good feelings or bad feelings. In that case it was bad feelings. But it was like all of a sudden, 'Who cares what Donald Trump or anyone else thinks of you?'“

— Kim Novak American actress 1933

Source: CBS Sunday Morning interview (2020)
Context: Answering the question "What did painting do for you after you came home from the Oscars?"

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„Their singing wasn't particularly good, but the feeling with which they sang was not bad at all.“

— William Saroyan, book The Human Comedy

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„We're emerging from the new dark age. The dark age of emotions and feelings. We're awakening to the idea that it is possible to be a very good parent on a physical level while being a very bad parent on an emotional level.“

— Teal Swan American spiritual teacher 1984

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„I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away.“

— Suzanne Collins, book Mockingjay

Katniss (p. 390; closing words of the epilogue)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
Context: I'll tell them how I survive it. I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away. That's when I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I've seen someone do. It's like a game. Repetitive. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years.
But there are much worse games to play.

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