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Quotes about Emotional Resonance

How do you casually listen to something that makes the walls of your heart crumble?
~ Dean Briggs
Our feelings connect us in powerful ways. As Maya Angelou once wrote, "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
~ Dean Ornish
Books make you feel things hard.
~ Deb Caletti
History can feel so distant sometimes, and other times, close enough that you can feel it right inside of you, close enough that you can see it moving away from you and toward you at the same time.
~ Deb Caletti
Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy.
~ Debasish Mridha
How could we be miserable, when there is music?
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Nothing softens the heart like a song.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Music dispels misery.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The melody of music!
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Listen when your heart speaks.
~ A.D. Posey
And yet, it is amazing that poetry often touches the heart even though it may not try to teach us anything.
~ Debasish Mridha
Like a wildflower, poetry does not need explanation. It only needs to touch our emotions.
~ Debasish Mridha
A friend is a bird who can sing along with the songs of your heart.
~ Debasish Mridha
If you become a singing bird, I will be the listening sky so that I will never miss your song.
~ Debasish Mridha
In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.
~ George Eliot
There must be a wound inside the words that communicates.
~ Jean Daive
Il ne savait pas encore que tout événement de notre vie n'a d'importance que la résonance qu'il trouve en nous, que le degré qu'il nous fait franchir vers l'ascétisme
~ Jean Genet
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
~ Jean Paul Richter
If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial when compared with his, you will know my feeling when I follow the curves of her profile, like mobile rivers, to their common delta.
~ Jean Toomer
Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love...
~ Jeff Buckley
showing up with a reliably open heart and a will to share whatever spirit you can muster is what resonates and transcends technical perfection.
~ Jeff Tweedy
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words
~ Elie Wiesel
It is not always events that have touched us personally that affect us the most.
~ Elie Wiesel
I got tears in my eyes, but they were not the crying kind, they were just the kind that show you your body agrees so much with what your mind just said.
~ Elizabeth Berg