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Liked" was the kiss of death. "Loved" or "hated" interested him. At least the performer had aroused ...

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I discovered that those who seldom dwell on their emotions know better than anyone else just what an...

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The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in t...

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John CageSilence: Lectures and Writings

Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy.

If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails.

DOING is often God's remedy for despair.

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John Piper (artist)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails.

DOING is often God's remedy for despair.

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John Piper (artist)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails.

DOING is often God's remedy for despair.

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John Piper (theologian)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails.

DOING is often God's remedy for despair.

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John Piper (theologian)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

For how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that...

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The intensest feeling of the beauty of a cloud lighted by the setting sun, is no hindrance to my kno...

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I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives who wakes up one mo...

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Why are you leaving me?He wrote, I do not know how to live.I do not know either but I am trying.I do...

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It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.

And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us of time's malleability. Some emotion...

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Julian BarnesThe Sense of an Ending

As I see it the world is undoubtedly in need of a new religion, and that religion must be founded on...

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The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child's emotional and philosophica...

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Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from thi...

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Love is a decision - not an emotion!

People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. Tru...

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You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can't create out of indifference.

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotio...

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There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.

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Louise ErdrichTales of Burning Love

Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the mea...

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Emotions unreel in her like spools of cotton.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosph...

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A real person, profoundly as we may sympathize with him, is in a great measure perceptible only thro...

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I stand in the dark, start to unbutton. Then I hear something inside my body. I've broken, something...

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The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.

Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funn...

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Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.

Extreme in hating and in loving; Abhorring all whom I dislike, Adoring who my fancy strike;In formin...

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Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on ...

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We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of ar...

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If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you ca...

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won’t hurt you. It will only help. If you let...

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Then he commandeered the floor, shooting back and forth like some hot Latin lover. When he finished,...

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But a human being, she, she, cannot simply exist; she is a hurricane, every thought bending and cros...

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The emotion of sex brings into being a state of mind.

It is not only negative feelings that become blocked. The repression extends to more and more of his...

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Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an a...

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The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

If we indulge in inordinate affection, anger, anxiety, God holds us responsible; but He also insists...

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Oswald ChambersBiblical Ethics / The Moral Foundations of Life / The Philosophy of Sin: Ethical Principles for the Christian Life

Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To ...

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I've had some pretty good arguments with people, but I've never regretted it. I've had people come u...

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Don’t bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whate...

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Feelings do not grow old along with the body. Feelings form part of a world I don’t know, but it’s a...

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Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their ...

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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us th...

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For even the best err in words when they are meant to mean most delicate and almost inexpressible th...

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Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders? And even if one of them suddenly pressed me...

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It is necessary - and toward this point our development will move, little by little - that nothing a...

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We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate. From images that are full, the spir...

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Rainer Maria RilkeThe Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a st...

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How many people did you know that refracted your own light to you? People were more often – he searc...

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I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain fo...

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Ray BradburyThe Martian Chronicles

There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The ...

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Raymond ChandlerThe Notebooks of Raymond Chandler; and English Summer: A Gothic Romance

There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The ...

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Raymond ChandlerThe Notebooks of Raymond Chandler; and English Summer: A Gothic Romance

Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious effort to learn how to think, onl...

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Forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of human rage, with these out hells and o...

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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while r...

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Pique or policy. We would never know.

Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have b...

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Roger ScrutonThe Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope

There is a sense in which all cognition can be said to be motivated. One is motivated to understand ...

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Sam HarrisThe Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

Emotion is what counts: it is more valuable than anything.

Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you...

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

My strength is translating emotion because I'm such a feeler.

I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically ...

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Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now re...

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Tell me something. Do you believe in God?'Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What?...

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A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods an...

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The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encount...

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She wasn't being methodological. She was being autobiographical.

Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.

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Stephen L. CarterThe Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln

Part of him wanted to weep... but his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gen...

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Stephen R. DonaldsonThe Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most ...

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Today we recognize that the emotion of disgust evolved as an unconscious defense against biological ...

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Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of fe...

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T. E. LawrenceSeven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering ...

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe...

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Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectru...

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Sometimes the person you'd take a bullet for is the person behind the trigger.

This is the great lesson the depressive learns: Nothing in the world is inherently compelling. Whate...

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Thomas LigottiThe Conspiracy Against the Human Race

You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want...

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Let me tell you something. A man ain’t a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute...

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Certain emotions bridge the years and link unlikely places.

Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real r...

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His ideas assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is peculiar to despair.

Love conquers all. Let Love then smile at our defeat.