Emotion quotes
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"I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression."
"I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions."
"My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible."
"Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision."
"How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions."
"There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated."
"I try to connect to human emotion. I'm always looking for something primal, something really base that is beyond language, that people understand beyond language."
"You select the colors of your thoughts; drab or bright, weak or strong, good or bad. You select the colors of your emotions; discordant or harmonious, harsh or quiet, weak or strong. You select the colors of your acts; cold or warm, fearful or daring, small or big."
"Emotion is created by motion."
"Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty."
"I'm not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I've always displayed. I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we're very outgoing with our emotions."
"For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences."
"Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life."
"There are only two emotions - Fear and Love. Go with Love."
"You use sex to express every emotion except love."
"Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express."
"Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence."
"When there is a fountain of colours, they add charm to your life. In ignorance, emotions are a bother; in knowledge, the same emotions add colours.. enjoy the day with Wisdom!"
"It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion."
"A successful trader is rational, analytical, able to control emotions, practical, and profit oriented."
