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“It’s a lot like a roller coaster. There are lots of twists and turns, and some of the hills are a bit scary, but you stay on the ride just to feel the thrill of that fall again,” Julia said. “And, ...”
“I suspect she must speak without emotion or otherwise entirely lose the self-control that is required to speak to me at all.”
“You could always call her secretive, masking her feelings beautifully lest anyone intrude into her inmost realm of hidden thoughts. It was a defense Urmila had evolved since childhood.”
“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.”
“Benedict’s hand clenched by his side, still tingling where it had touched her. He wished she’d let him do more. It was so romantic out here in the darkness; the cool breeze rustling through the tre...”
“A face whose emotions had not yet been battered by experience.”
“My fingers traced the melody on an invisible keyboard—my usual way to connect with the music, to feel its emotions on my fingertips. I touched the keys softly, as if gliding my hands through water,...”
“There is a song from this old movie called Arth where a man asks awoman, “You are smiling so much, there must be a deep pain that you'rehiding.” I wonder what your deep pains are and I wonder how I...”
“Emotions are reserved for juries and, in that case, a good lawyer can really lay them on when the time is right, better than the best Academy Award winning actor”
“Breakfast seemed to be a good time for throwing your emotions around. Jodie said that at this place emotions were like Frisbees – people just tossed them around all day long like they were at a park.”
“At the end of the day it’s not ‘what looks good’ that matters, it’s ‘what feels’ good.”
“To experience positive/healthy emotions you don’t need a big house or a nice car or a managerial job or a million dollar in your bank.”
“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”
“I think poor poetry writing skills are excused when you’re simply trying to flush out emotions.”
“The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.”
“It’s not that I didn’t understand or believe the gospel before. I did. But the truth of the gospel hadn’t moved from my mind to my heart. There was a huge gap between my intellect and my emotions. ...”
“Offstage, I couldn't put things into words, and that was the one thing I'd always been able to rely on. Putting my feelings into words and praying they wouldn't be able to get out again.”
“That’s what violence was: emotion leaking out from consciousness into the physical world, linking up with the muscles of the arms and shoulders and diaphragm and, inevitably, the face. Stifle emoti...”
“The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.”
