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"Negative emotion is your indicator of resistance, while positive emotion is your indicator of allowance. And they are on the same meter: allowance; resistance. Allowance; resistance."
"Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it."
"Fear is the emotion behind hatred. Fear comes when you are threatened either physically or emotionally or psychologically."
"Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion."
"I want ... to consort with people whose emotions are not ... cold and standoffish."
"Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions."
"When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable."
"The emotions you once thought of as negative are merely a call to action. In fact, instead of calling them negative emotions... let's call them Action Signals."
"Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe."
"When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection."
"Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions."
"You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion"
"Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions."
"Emotion is contagious."
"Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival."
"The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence."
"Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions."
"The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration."
"It was a weird mix of emotions. One day, your best friend could be killed. The day before, you could be celebrating him getting a brand-new bike."
"To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully."
