682 quotes found
“Life is like a rushing river. If we fight the current we are drawn under and drown in emotion.”
“Some people go through the heavy stuff. They fight in wars. They're in jail. They start a business and it gets shut down by gangsters. They end up hustling their ass in a foreign country. It's one ...”
“I felt so fine I didn't once overanalyze the perfect emotion, budding inside. The one I'd always feared most.”
“Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are free from the grasp, not of one mad master only, but of many.”
“Our hearts are wired for worship, and our worship is directly tied to our sense of hope.”
“When the flow of a river is blocked, it overflows or breaks the barriers. Similarly, our emotions can get out of control if their expression is blocked.”
“That's the trouble with good writers. Only the bad ones make you want to do the human thing and look away.”
“The idea of our own rationality...was convincing to us only because we so wished to be convinced. To any impartial observer, could such a thing exist, the sham was patent. Emotion and instinct were...”
“How we flounder when emotion overtakes us.”
“The journey of finding you can be scary all in itself. The journey to finding the real you start behind the walls of yesterday. Reaching down through the years of hurt can remind you of why you bui...”
“You can't plan for feelings. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it'll be okay anyway.”
“We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.”
“My heart is tortured for love. For a being of essence locked away from my heart. A padded room locks away these feelings. Convoluted love that has me convinced its worth my last breathe to share a ...”
“A moralist will be unsuccessful in trying to displace his love of the world by reviewing the ills of the world. Misplaced affections need to be replaced by the far greater power of the affection of...”
“Love is a blend of heart and mind, it creates a euphoric fusion of energy and intellect, to induce a transformation in life as the Rays of Love gradually befall.”
“Benedicts hand clenched by his side, still tingling where it had touched her. He wished shed let him do more. It was so romantic out here in the darkness; the cool breeze rustling through the trees...”
“Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions, because the body always follows the mind.”
“One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well... just realistic.”
“Never underestimate somebody's silence. Lot more is conveyed through it. A person who respects human emotions will understand this better.”
“To really care about others, we have to understand them - what they like and dislike, what they feel as well as think. Emotion drives both men and women and influences every decision we make. Recog...”
