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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful t...

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...workplace dynamics are no less complicated or unexpectedly intense than family relations, with on...

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Alain de BottonThe Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Carried to its final extreme, the logical end of this type of reaction to life is suicide. The hard-...

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Durability is one of the chief elements of strength. Nothing is either loved or feared but that whic...

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Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning...

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Alice Miller (psychologist)The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

The more we practice mindfulness the more we understand the emotional dynamics of the self and other...

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

Meditation is not thinking about the image of a person of the past. It is more about focusing and ch...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Confront all the angry thoughts, feelings, the jealousies and condemnations, to find their cause, se...

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It is an infirmity of our nature to mingle our interests and prejudices with the operation of our re...

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It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally impor...

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Andrew SolomonThe Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

What mysteries we are, human, vampire, monster, mortal, that we can love and hate simultaneously, an...

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A man who under the influence of mental pain or unbearably oppressive suffering sends a bullet throu...

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Our love has been the thread through thelabyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real...

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Whenever anyone accuses some person of being ‘unfeeling,’ he means that that person is just. He mean...

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They said you were hard and cold and unfeeling.”“But it’s true...I am, in the sense they mean—only h...

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Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills i...

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There are two aspects of man’s existence which are the special province and expression of his sense ...

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Ayn RandThe Romantic Manifesto

When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.

I shall treat the nature and power of the Affects, and the power of the Mind over them, by the same ...

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Whether they regard themselves as pro- or antifeminist, most women want men to do more of the emotio...

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No matter that information abounds that lets the public know that gay males come from two-parent hom...

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

Our emotions can lie to us, and we need to counter our emotions with truth.

Our emotions can lie to us, and we need to counter our emotions with truth.

Our emotions can lie to us, and we need to counter our emotions with truth.

Our emotions can lie to us, and we need to counter our emotions with truth.

Our emotions can lie to us, and we need to counter our emotions with truth.

Our emotions can lie to us, and we need to counter our emotions with truth.

Our emotions can lie to us, and we need to counter our emotions with truth.

Our emotions can lie to us, and we need to counter our emotions with truth.

To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit with...

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Brennan ManningAbba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive em...

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Denying emotion is not avoiding the high curbs, it's never taking your car out of the garage. It's s...

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Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with ...

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Do dogs feel for humans something akin to religious ecstasy? What other strong or subtle emotions ar...

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Carl SaganDragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

Offstage, I couldn't put things into words, and that was the one thing I'd always been able to rely ...

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The Fair Folk don't give back what they take.

Feeling this way was a particular kind of horror, having the emotions without the memories.

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Cassandra ClareWelcome to Shadowhunter Academy

The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injuriou...

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Charles DarwinThe Autobiography of Charles Darwin

Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.

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Charles DarwinThe Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are aliv...

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But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant’s grip — one’s fa...

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I tell you I must go!” I retorted, roused to something like passion. “Do you think I can stay to bec...

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She felt as if she had somehow failed him and herself by allowing his mother’s behavior to upset her...

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Not only did he unleash his emotions through rivers of tears, but for several days he denied his bod...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

And dimly she realised one of the great laws of the human soul: that when the emotional soul receive...

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D. H. LawrenceLady Chatterley's Lover

I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don't know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy...

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D. H. LawrenceThe Man Who Loved Islands / L'uomo che amava le isole

Other people had something I lacked something denied me. In my mental blindness, I had believed it w...

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This is how life works. Deciding whom to love is not an alien form of decision-making, a romantic in...

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It's my conceit that perhaps some diseases perceived as diseases that destroy a well-functioning mac...

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I don't think irony's meant to synergize with anything as heartfelt assadness.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

With lead he shaded love into the woman's eyes.

If emotions were universal, then in one sense he was not alone, never had been alone, and never coul...

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Dean KoontzDean Koontz: Key to Midnight / Shattered / House of Thunder

I suspect she must speak without emotion or otherwise entirely lose the self-control that is require...

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She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as...

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Dean KoontzOdd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

If you think about something else hard enough, you can mostly control your feelings.

Watch a movie that makes you laugh or listen to a song that makes you cry. Embrace your emotions and...

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Demi LovatoStaying Strong: 365 Days a Year

As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.

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Diane AckermanThe Zookeeper's Wife

The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.

Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want...

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I think that emotions affect you as much as x-rays and vitamins and car crashes.

As everyone knows, there is often a rather fine line between laughing and crying

Or do you like being frightened?”Hugh, though generally intelligent, is dense in certain ways; this ...

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Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms.

Ego-generated emotions are derived from the mind's identification with external factors which are, o...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

The more unsettled and unbalanced we feel, the more quickly and recklessly we are likely to fall in ...

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Elizabeth GilbertCommitted: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

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Elizabeth GilbertEat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy

Like most humanoids, I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the "monkey mind"--the thoughts that...

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The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We crea...

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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbea...

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The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.

Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - ...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

Tears are a form of communication - like speech - and require a listener.

You wouldn't believe it. It's like a wonderful nightmare.""Sure," I said. "I'd believe anything. Inc...

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Ernest HemingwayThe Sun Also Rises

She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly b...

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Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It elud...

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He desired her and, so far as her virginal emotions went, she contemplated a surrender with equanimi...

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Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civiliz...

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The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character wi...

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Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Here all great emotions decay: here only little, dry emotions may rattle!Do you not smell already th...

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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we w...

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We learn to restrain ourselves as we get older. We keep apart when we have quarrelled, express ourse...

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Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imag...

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The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own pas...

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When a tender affection has been storing itself in us through many of our years, the idea that we co...

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It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You wil...

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The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred...

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Intimacy cannot be expressed discursively. The swelling to the bursting point, the malice that break...

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The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

One thinks of nothing,’ he continued; ‘the hours slip by. Motionless we traverse countries we fancy ...

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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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