"Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough."
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"You are not your emotions,you have emotions,and you can master them."
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"The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary."
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"Crying's always been a way for me to get things out which are buried deep, deep down. When I sing, I often cry. Crying is feeling, and feeling is being human."
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"Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art."
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"Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change."
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"Emotion without action is irrelevant."
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"The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other."
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"We need to understand how destructive emotions affect us and constructive emotions can help us, so that we can maintain our peace of mind."
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"When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will."
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"With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures."
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"Music is the shorthand of emotion."
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"Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect."
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"Shame is a soul eating emotion."
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"I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature"
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"An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be."
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"It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles."
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"Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object."
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"If you're just addressing your own emotions and challenging yourself to find some sort of harmonious sense of being in life and questioning authority and questioning what's given and questioning what's expected of you, you're already on the cusp of finding something in yourself, and maybe waking something in somebody else."
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"Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel."
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