It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

In this one life, this one life that you have to live, you must embrace every moment that creeps into your existence. You must feel every possible emotion to realize you’re really alive, you’re really...

I don’t always feel what I know I should feel.My thought crosses the river I swim very slowlyBecause the suit men made it wear weighs it down.

Begin to see the violence around you; begin to see the violence within you.

Anything that feels good couldn’t possibly be bad.

When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship.

In any case, perhaps the quest for data to support our actions gets overemphasized. After all, our emotions distinguish us. Art and poetry and music are from and to the human heart, as is, for...

While you and I are allowed the luxury of our pain, president isn’t. A president must take into account how his citizens feel and he must manage them and lead them, but he must not...

People tend to overuse any idea or concept that delivers an emotional kick.

When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the author’s life, but they move on from there. In poetry, especially confessional poetry but in other poetry as well,...

If we indulge in inordinate affection, anger, anxiety, God holds us responsible; but He also insists that we have to be passionately filled with the right emotions.

After he finished he said: If there is anything for you to learn, it’s only that you should not be ashamed. Don’t be ashamed to be a person with feelings. No matter what it is,...

A good fragrance is really a powerful cocktail of memories and emotion.

Life is full of disparate details arbitrarily joined together by dreams, pain and yearning. I do not long for sense, but I call for emotion and imagination amidst this chaos.

You are lucky to feel sadness.

Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.

Emotion is what counts: it is more valuable than anything.

We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.

We’re going to change. We’re going to throw out what’s worse in usand keep what’s best. But come hell or high water, we three will sticktogether, all for one, one for all. We’re going to...

The heart has its own reasons that reason can’t understand.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the...

There are books that speak to us of our own lives with a clarity we cannot match. They prevent the morose suspicion that we do not fully belong to the species, that we lie beyond...

I’ve loved you for a long time, ‘ she said. ‘But there was always something holding me back. Maybe it was that I was afraid of an emotion that was so consuming. It still frightens...

Countless people live their whole lives without ever knowing this…this unnameable thing that we share. This exclusive and secret club that we are so blessed to be a part of. I suppose that by many...

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I’ve been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one...

The way I work emotionally is: I don’t ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

Shift your attention, and your emotion shifts. Shift your emotion, and your attention shifts.

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dulness. I need only suggest what kind of sermons are still listened to in the most enlightened countries. There are...

She was not one for emptying her face of expression.

Start here. No one’s ever touched me here before.

Words form the sinew and muscle that hold societies upright, he argued. Consider the Koran, the Bible, the American Constitution, but also letters from fathers to sons, last wills, blessings, curses. Thousands upon thousands of...

Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.

Advertisers as well as political leaders long ago found that it is easier to appeal to the people through the heart than through the mind. Programs built with an emotional people are sure to draw...

People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness.

His thought processes imploded when she grabbed his ass, her nails digging in a way that set his body on fire. He loved the way her breath was hot on his cheek, the way her...

To react is one’s choice.

I’m numb and I’m tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I’d been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I’m soaked to the skin...

When I write in Hebrew, I don’t look for sophistication in music; it’s just pure emotion that comes out.

Cases fired by emotion rather than money were dangerous.

It is not excess of thought but defect of fertile and generous emotion that marks them out. Their heads are no bigger than the ordinary: it is the atrophy of te chest beneath that makes...

Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.

Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers – danger, death, and live ammunition.

Humanities are the instructors of enchantment.

We try so hard to hide everything we’re really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most. People try to bottle up their emotions, as if it’s somehow wrong to...

Our tears are precious, necessary, and part of what make us such endearing creatures.

Explaining how much I you is like explaining how the water tastes from the drops of the rain

Do you know, I sometimes, catch myself wishing that I too were blind to the facts of life and only knew its fancies and illusions. They’re wrong, all wrong, of course, and contrary to reason;...

A strange, terrific force unlike anything I’ve ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will–over and...

I might have been made of metal once, but not anymore. Like Pinocchio, I’d turned into a real girl. So far it sucked. But there was nothing I could do about it.