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"You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones."

Anderson, Greg on emotions
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"All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual."

Balzac, Honore De on emotions
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"The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no."

Bangs, Lester on emotions
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"It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home."

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"Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also."

Browning, Robert on emotions
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"It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on emotions    Share

"By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it."

Collins, Joseph on emotions
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"It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all."

Conrad, Joseph on emotions
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"There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated."

Dickens, Charles on emotions
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"Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup."

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"You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes."

Drabble, Margaret on emotions    Share

"Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind."

Eastman, Max on emotions    Share

"Our emotions are only incidents in the effort to keep day and night together."

Eliot, T. S. on emotions
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"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on emotions
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"If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself."

Horace on emotions
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"There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion."

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich on emotions
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"He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird."

Paine, Thomas on emotions    Share

"When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score."

Powell, John Enoch on emotions
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"The heart is half a prophet."

Proverb, Yiddish on emotions
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"All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on emotions    Share

"Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions."

Roux, Joseph on emotions
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"We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs."

Russell, Bertrand on emotions    Share

"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool."

Santayana, George on emotions
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"Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end."

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"Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits."

Sheen, Bishop Fulton J. on emotions
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"The heart is forever inexperienced."

Thoreau, Henry David on emotions
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"Emotions have taught mankind to reason."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on emotions
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"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."

Wilde, Oscar on emotions
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"Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing."

Hartnett, Sonya on emotions    Share

"you know me well enough to know the things that hurt me. i know you well enough to know that you are trying to hurt me."

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