“Over the last few hours I've allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won't be afraid of that feeling anymore.”

“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 book A New Earth

“The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much.”

Marlon Brando (1924–2004) American screen and stage actor

“I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling bad. Maybe that's selfish, but it's the way I feel.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

“Maybe you ride a different wave.
Maybe you catch another ray of the sun
That I've just begun to feel.”

Edie Brickell (1966) singer from the United States

“It's really designed, I think, to strip you and blend you. It's like feeling like the invisible man. You just stand there, and you start disintegrating, and you can't see yourself, and you just feel like you're being absorbed into this big blob of glitter.”

River Phoenix (1970–1993) American actor, musician, and activist

“Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.”

Lena Horne (1917–2010) American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer

“Barefoot travel allows you to get the true feel of a place.”

Sabrina Ward Harrison (1975) Canadian writer

“Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

“I've been really tryin, baby
Tryin to hold back these feelings for so long
And if you feel, like I feel baby
Come on, oh come on,
Let's get it on.”

Marvin Gaye (1939–1984) American singer-songwriter and musician