1010 – “The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.”

-E L Doctorow

977 – Piglet: “How do you spell love?” Pooh: “You don’t spell it, you feel it.”

-A A Milne [Attributed]

937 – “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”

-C S Lewis

918 – “Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”

-Albus Dumbledore in J K Rowling’s Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix

857 – “Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.”

–Aristotle

851 – “The worst thing in life is not to end up all alone. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.”

–Robin Williams [Attributed]

746 – “The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”

–Ernest Hemingway [Possibly misatrributed, See Source Notes for details]

Quote Number:  320

Source: Unknown source

Source Notes: Upon further review there is a possibility that this is not a Hemingway quote, however because I cannot confirm this I am not going to change it at this time. I still have been unable to identify the original source. However, a reference was made to an unpublished work titled “Crossroads” in volume 16 of the New York Times Biographical Service, online here. While it is hard to see from just the snippet view, it may not be quoting Hemingway at all.

Also, after reviewing several different editions of Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms online, I am fairly certain it is not contained in there. If you have any further information, please leave a comment, thank you!

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686 – “To love somebody is not just a feeling—it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.”

–Erich Fromm

631 – “It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”

–Miles Halter in John Green’s Looking for Alaska

553 – “Not all scars show, not all wounds heal. Sometimes you can’t always see the pain that someone feels.”

–anonymous