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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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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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