682 quotes found
“Its very difficult sometimes to put into words ones feelings, especially when one is not quite certain what those feelings are. (Catherine)”
“Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.”
“Our emotions can be either corrupted or elevated. Human love was not created to be without premeditated purpose.”
“It is an infirmity of our nature to mingle our interests and prejudices with the operation of our reasoning powers, and attribute to the objects of our likes and dislikes qualities they do not poss...”
“Never let yourself be swayed by emotions,' her mother had said. 'Emotions are fleeting. They come and go. But reality stays with you forever.”
“The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it so easy that one hardly distinguishes the order from it...”
“The emotional states are liberated inside water, we calm down emotionally, we become more sensitive, we are able to "touch" deeper ourselves and other beings. Empathy is echoing back to us giving s...”
“Haydon had found his charm again. He could do that at the drop of a hat. He drew you and he repelled you. I remember that exactly. He danced all ways for you, playing your emotions against each oth...”
“The goal with hostages is to gradually lower expectations; in nonhostage crises, it's to lower emotions.”
“...our memory is enhanced by the emotion attending the event. The more intense the feelings the more accessible to the memory is the event. Few of us live lives so emotionally charged that we can t...”
“Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.”
“I dont want my part taken! I havent got a part! I hate the stupid geometrical figures by which people try to understand the emotions of others, imposing hard straight lines - or sides as they call ...”
“Love is not an emotion. Love is the only constant in the universe, the substance and the truth of what we really are.”
“To recognize that the Psalms call us to pray and sing at the intersections of the times--of our time and God's time, of the then, and the now, and the not yet--is to understand how those emotions a...”
“being a harp which the least wind of emotion from anothers heart could make to vibrate as readily as a radical stir in her own.”
“On the wings of love I soared high in the sky, free as a bird feeling blessed that I could love once again. That tight knot in my stomach which always drained my emotions had suddenly disappeared. ...”
“But, despite everything, it was almost a pleasure to suffer those torments. I had crawled through life blindly and dully for so long, my heart had kept silent and had sat, impoverished, in a corner...”
“You see those stars, which shines at night when the sky darkens it shines for you when your heart is blackened”
“She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly blind, in her bed, an old lady. Reciting, her voice took on resonance and firmness, it rang with t...”
“Sapiens dont behave according to a cold mathematical logic, but rather according to a warm social logic. We are ruled by emotions.”
