"The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven."
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"I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them."
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"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility."
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"The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion."
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"I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely philosophical. I didn't want to. I'm not in the least a religious type. I want to be let alone, to feel I'm my own master; but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in."
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"We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end."
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"Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it."
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"We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love."
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"I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich."
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"Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior."
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"Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity."
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"As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now, every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a residue of pain that lives on in you."
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"I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking."
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"I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others."
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"True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason."
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"And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman."
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"The sun shines not on us but in us."
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"Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping."
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"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get."
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"I was very emotional. I cried when I got into the locker room. I didn’t want to show that stuff on the sideline."
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