"Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions."
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"When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master."
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"We got married in a fever hotter than a pepper sprout."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism."
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"People don't buy plastic and paper, they buy emotions."
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"Logic won't change an emotion but action will."
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"It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind."
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"I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am."
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"Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions."
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"We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions."
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"When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't."
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"Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail."
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"Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think you’re seeking happiness, if you do nothing to restrain angry, spiteful, and malicious thoughts and emotions."
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"Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process."
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"Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over."
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"A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
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"To know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect."
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"Wisdom always waits for the right time to act, while emotion always pushes for action right now!"
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