Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.

Good conversation is the equivalent of shared emotion.

Dreams can twist your emotions like no reality can.

People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a thing of fire, and rock. It burns your heart, crushes...

The cases described in this section (The Fear of Being) may seem extreme, but I have become convinced that they are not as uncommon as one would think. Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our...

So long as this struggle known as life goes on, there will always be the music to fit the mood and make it better.

I don’t know notes or octaves or the difference between sharp and flat, but I know music makes everything more.

Hate is a very strong, pure emotion to be wasted on people you don’t care about.

It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.

Pretending to feel something you don’t can often lead you to the real thing, in some form.

Betrayal is a more subtle, twisted feeling than terror. It burns and eats, but terror stabs right through.

The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

I had a bizarre rapport with this mirror and spent a lot of time gazing into the glass to see who was there. Sometimesit looked like me. At other times, I could see someone similar...

Emotions can get in the way of truth-seeking. People do not process information in a neutral way.

Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless.”Anger” was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.

Don’t be mad at me for my success. Be mad at yourself for not doing what it takes to get what I have. Then do something amazing with that emotion.

People say ‘I love Artists’, but what they really know about Artists? They’ve ever thought about sharing the real madness with us? I believe those extreme passions/emotions in me separated from the real world is...

Dancing is a expression of desire, thoughts, and emotion in a distinctive way.

Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and...

The melodious song mesmerized me and cloaked my soul in a most liberating embrace I had never known. The emotion enveloped me, and smothered the emptiness.

The emotions – love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust – are in the audience.

Emotion lay at the very heart of the process of perception, intertwined with intellectual functions, yet adding to perception a quality that reason lacked.

transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?

People are likely to act based on their emotions and then backward-rationalize. Because women have highly developed emotional circuits, they are especially susceptible to this.

You learned to run from what you feel, and that’s why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.

The fisherman of the Colombian coast must be learned doctors of ethics and morality, for they invented the word sentipensante, or ‘feeling-thinking’ to define language that speaks the truth. Eduardo Galeano

Changes in Relationship with others:It is especially hard to trust other people if you have been repeatedly abused, abandoned or betrayed as a child. Mistrust makes it very difficult to make friends, and to be...

One foot in front of the other, more aimless than direct, Bradford left the waiting room for the outside world. Called for a taxi and then dialed Munroe again, desperate for her voice, for one...

I would like to see you come undone.When you’re laughing so hardthat your eyes crinkle at the cornersand your hand comes up to cover your mouth,like you’re trying to conceal a secret.When you are overcome...

Blankly expressing oneself can be stronger than words.

in fact, life of the virtual world are the ones who wearing mask.

Classifying depression as an illness serves the psychiatric community and pharmaceutical corporations well; it also soothes the frightened, guilty, indifferent, busy, sadistic, and unschooled. To understand depression as a call for life-changes is not profitable....

Being a ‘potential mate’ was something rather different and much more complicated. It was when two people had the potential to become like one person, knowing each other’s moods and feelings in a way no...

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.”(Sister Imelda)

In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before...

Before you accomplish your dreams physically, your inner make up, mindset, emotions and perception have fought the battle mentally and that already determined how the battle will be fought physically.

Anger is a brief madness.

A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about ecstasy. What is the nature of these emotions? The problem with photography is...

In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy’s always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs’s got that sly smile, like he always knows what’s up, like nothing can ruffle him.

The thing about pain, whether physical or emotional, is there’s no running away. You can’t escape it and you can’t hide from it. Not by ignoring it, not by drugging it, not by doing a...

Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on Uncle Keith’s trunk. Behind Tacy’s house the sun had set. A wind had...

Reason must know the heart’s reasons and every other reason

All right, it’s just fear, I don’t have to let it control me. I see it for what it is”.

Without emotional response, love is an act of self-deceiving self-satisfaction by an unsatisfied self.

It doesn’t seem right to throw dirt at you when you’re dead…

There’s no such thing as emotion.It’s only body chemistry in action.

I feel wonderful and sad. It’s the gin.

These past two days, I’ve seen a fire in your eyes that I never have before. Granted, it’s mostly anger and frustration, but it’s still emotion.

Tell me something. Do you believe in God?’Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. ‘What? Who still believes nowadays?”It isn’t that simple. I don’t mean the traditional God of Earth religion. I’m no expert...

Tunney has all the makings of a hero – he was clean living, intelligent, polite, reasonably good-looking – but, like Lou Gehrig, he lacked the chemistry that stirred affection.