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He disliked tears, he has always disliked tears, had never understood them, and sometimes lost his t...

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When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages ...

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I had always thought that sorrow was the most exhausting of the emotions. Now I knew that it was ang...

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Helen GarnerThe Spare Room

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt wi...

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt wi...

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I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only mo...

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And empty words are evil.

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely s...

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Of necessity she went further in aversion than she had gone in love, for her hatred was not in propo...

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She laughed. 'It won't last. Nothing lasts. But I'm happy now.''Happy,' I muttered, trying to pin th...

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My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.

Those who understand the complexities of human nature know that joy and pain, ugliness and beauty, l...

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Jealousy is perhaps the most involuntary of all strong emotions. It steals consciousness, it lies de...

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Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived...

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Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and him...

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What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope ...

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Our hearts are wired for worship, and our worship is directly tied to our sense of hope.

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James MacDonaldChrist-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

But no: he was empty, he was confronted by a vast anger, a desperate anger, he saw it and could almo...

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What you think is the heart might well be another organ.

I don't own my emotions unless I can think about them. I am not afraid of feeling but I am afraid of...

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To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our ne...

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were de...

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Certain emotions just take you to the notes - being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes.

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always for...

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She had felt good for a few moments, racing across the face of the hill on her old bike, but the hap...

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She had felt good for a few moments, racing across the face of the hill on her old bike, but the hap...

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An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and ...

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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

The idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely d...

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The trick was not to stifle the emotions, but to control them. Love, anger, grief – all were weapons...

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When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes ...

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One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.

As I got older and started moving up the ranking, the matches got more important, and my emotions ra...

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Minimizing the importance of transformed feelings makes Christian conversion less supernatural and l...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitte...

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John Piper (artist)Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

Minimizing the importance of transformed feelings makes Christian conversion less supernatural and l...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitte...

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John Piper (artist)Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

Minimizing the importance of transformed feelings makes Christian conversion less supernatural and l...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitte...

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John Piper (theologian)Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

Minimizing the importance of transformed feelings makes Christian conversion less supernatural and l...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitte...

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John Piper (theologian)Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

I don't break down," she announced. "Got it?"He got it. He was already pulling back, looking ashamed...

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Haydon had found his charm again. He could do that at the drop of a hat. He drew you and he repelled...

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People cry, not because they're weak, it's because they've been strong for too long.

I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the w...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs ca...

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The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the...

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We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be s...

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We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by wo...

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Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely ...

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Julian BarnesA History of the World in 10½ Chapters

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go. Don’t ever forget that you p...

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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in th...

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Keith RichardsAccording to the Rolling Stones

Bold didn’t know what he felt, it changed minute by minute.

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Kim Stanley RobinsonThe Years of Rice and Salt

Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This pra...

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It was because someone who was a real friend was having the exact same feelings I was having, about ...

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Emotion goes inside-out. Emotional contagion, though, suggests that the opposite is also true. If I ...

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Malcolm GladwellThe Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay u...

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I can't remember what I really felt. Maybe nothing happened, maybe these emotions I remember are not...

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The heart is a strange beast and not ruled by logic.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

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Marilyn MonroeMarilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words

[There are] games children must conjure up to combat an awful fact of childhood: the fact of their v...

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There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

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Max BrooksWorld War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Some people go through the heavy stuff. They fight in wars. They're in jail. They start a business a...

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Michel FaberThe Book of Strange New Things

In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to fee...

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Mitch AlbomThe Five People You Meet in Heaven

Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and pai...

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To recognize that the Psalms call us to pray and sing at the intersections of the times--of our time...

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N.T. WrightThe Case for the Psalms: Why They Are Essential

Thoughts which are mixed with any of the feelings of emotions, constitute a "magnetic" force which a...

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The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...

The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

He wanted to say that all this talk of feelings was irrelevant. Thatemotions come and go and can't b...

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That's the trouble with good writers. Only the bad ones make you want to do the human thing and look...

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That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to fli...

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Everything she heard, everything she saw seemed to be in disagreement with her own manner of underst...

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In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions altogether...

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And how delightful other people's emotions were!-much more delightful than their ideas, it seemed to...

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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it i...

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One could never pay too high a price for any sensation.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate t...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

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Oscar WildeThe Soul of Man Under Socialism

Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.

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But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

But emotions were, indeed, wild horses and they demanded to be heard. Brida let them run free for a ...

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We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear

There is such a thing as emotional rubbish; it is produced in the factories of the mind. It consists...

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We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep.We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day.We feel, ...

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I'm not going to be hardened by these people, to these things, I'm not going to let them destroy my ...

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Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles...

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For those regarded as warriors...When engaged in combat, the vanquishing of thine enemy can be the w...

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Your actions speak so loudly, I cannot hear what you are saying.

In ballet, any dancer who asks himself what step comes next must freeze. Any man who takes a sex man...

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The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels ...

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