"Most of our problems are related to the mind, so we have to work to reduce our destructive emotions."
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"If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods."
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"I really put a lot of and emotion into my project in order to evoke emotion."
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"Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself."
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"Keeping your emotions all locked up is something that’s unfair to you. When you clearly know how you feel. You should say it."
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"With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified."
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"Choosing what we think rather than reaction to our emotions."
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"A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion."
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"I have a horror of sunsets; they're so romantic, so operatic."
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"All thoughts start from emotions."
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"Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy."
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"The greatest change to go from average to fortune is not so much an increase in knowledge, but rather, a change in our emotions about achieving our goals."
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"When you feel down, go be a blessing to somebody else."
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"Breathing determines emotion. Emotion determines breathing."
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"Indignation and determination are much more constructive emotions than shame and embarrassment. And feminism was this engine that turned one into the other."
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"Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness."
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"I have a woman's body and a child's emotions."
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"Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat."
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"I'm always talking about how the poems I am most obsessed with are like people: complex and unknowable and with a huge capacity for many different emotions."
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"Be a creator, not a reactor."
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