Emotion quotes
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"If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude."
"Sometimes I wanna drop a tear but no emotion from a king."
"If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money."
"Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion."
"The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is."
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"All perception is colored by emotion."
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
"You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept."
"Misery is a communicable disease."
"Hatred is a very underestimated emotion."
"Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time."
"Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them."
"Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings."
"It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike."
"How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!"
"One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them."
"I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions."
"Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions."
"Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions."
"Every emotion is connected with the breath. If you change the breath, change the rhythm, you can change the emotion."
"Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions."
"When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master."
"We got married in a fever hotter than a pepper sprout."
"The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion."
"The most decisive event in your life is when you discover you are not your thoughts or emotions. Instead, you can be present as the awareness behind the thoughts and emotions."
