"Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein."
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"My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life."
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"If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe."
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"I'm an extremely vulnerable person. Vulnerability and emotion are very closely linked."
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"Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It's not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at large, and are shared and are questioned. There is a vulnerability."
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"The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions."
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"Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure."
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"Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion."
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"Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30."
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"Buddhahood is a state free of all obstructions to knowledge and disturbing emotions. It is the state in which the mind is fully evolved."
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"As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature."
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"You accept whatever happens in the present moment, the only place where it can happen. Internally, you fully accept what is happening, and what is happening may include an emotion, a stream of anxiety that suddenly comes up within you."
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"In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being."
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"Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't."
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"Every scar has a life of its own and a space in my heart."
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"Most important and most vulnerable of human emotions; Love."
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"I question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything that Barry Manilow sings."
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"In the past even scientists have been led to believe that only human beings have thoughts or emotions. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth... After all, thoughts and emotions have evolutionary value."
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"If I feel strongly about anything, I get overwhelmed with emotion."
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"By county, there's like 14 different accents in Mississippi alone. And now, present day, a Mississippi accent is different than in 1963. So we had a dialect coach, which is like going to visit France and having to translate all your emotions into French, and French isn't your first language. I had to go through that filter, so it was interesting."
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