When life gets rough, never think you have failed… allow your self a quality of emotion and introspection. It is called turning inwards. When you observe and examine your mental and emotional state, from your...

There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are acknowledged as emotions. (p69)

I don’t shop. I buy things that inspire me, that give me emotion.

It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,’ she said.It seems to be true,’ he admitted. ‘I wonder why.’Because it makes one feel so small and insignificant. It has been...

I feel an army in my fist.

She could and had faced an armed laser in the hands of a mad mutant mercenary with less fear than she faced such unswerving emotion…

emotion is first of all and in principle an accident

Distraction leaches the authenticity out of our communications. When we are not emotionally present, we are gliding over the surface of our interactions and we never tangle in the depths where the nuances of our...

With hardly any effort at all, she made me feel special. Just like all the other people she toyed with.

Now bound by the sudden rush of emotion that reverberates through me as I remain intent on awakening Nadia, I push my fingertips upward over her neck as if pushing a coin from the edge...

It’s easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.

I’d rather just be me. Feel comfortable in my own skin and be able to speak my mind without having to carry a damned thesaurus. Sure doesn’t seem worth giving up who you are to...

Love is not an idea, not a feeling, not a sensation, not a sentiment, not a passion, not even an emotion. It is becoming and being not… Ultimate nothingness! Complete self-annihilation!

Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders? And even if one of them suddenly pressed me against his heart, I should fade in the strength of his stronger existence. For beauty’s...

You think because he doesn’t love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn’t want you anymore that he is right — that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If...

Mislaid flame of tender emotionsRekindled.Together we live to the point of tears,I wouldn’t want it any other way.

I can imagine no greater catastrophe than if I were mistaken, and the theory were correct that what I consider secondary instincts or drives are actually primary instincts! Because in that case the emotional plague...

No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never...

Emotions manipulates the man more than habits do.

You’re a mystery.

It’s an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done.

There comes a moment in all travel when you know that you have really started. It may be weeks before you start or weeks after you have started; it is a spiritual emotion, a turning...

It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own.

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

It doesn’t mean,’ she shrugged. ‘It just is

What makes and experience a memory is when we share with someone, the emotions we felt

Moods are not to be confused with emotions. Moods will dispose you to having an emotion. Certain moods you’re more likely to get angry than others, as we all know, but emotion is not the...

When animals express their feelings they pour out like water from a spout. Animals’ emotions are raw, unfiltered, and uncontrolled. Their joy is the purest and most contagious of joys and their grief the deepest...

for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.

The deepness of your mind produces the thickness of your thoughts.

You have had me spinning for days, for I am drunk off the words that flow endlessly from your deep red lips that taste of wine.

He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart.

Changes in the Perception of Self:People who have been traumatized in childhood are often troubled by guilt, shame, and negative feelings about themselves, such as the belief they are unlikable, unlovable, stupid, inept, dirty, worthless,...

Gwynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go to a bar with her and let all the stuff sobriety pushed down...

There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the...

In the campaign of 1876, Robert G. Ingersoll came to Madison to speak. I had heard of him for years; when I was a boy on the farm a relative of ours had testified in...

Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time,...

I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same. Keep it always with you...

All these many-coloured feelings fell… like light on a black surface, producing no change, meeting no return.

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

Okay, if this is what falling in love feels like, someone please kill me now. (Not literally, overzealousreaders.) But it was all too much—too much emotion, too much happiness, too much longing, perhapstoo much ice...

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.

one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.

In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the Ingersoll’s, and went over to Charleston to hear him lecture. His subject was ‘Some Mistakes...

They (the French) have taken genius instead of reason for their guide, adopted experiment instead of experience, and wander in the dark because they prefer lightning to light.

I’d written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one’s own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I’d made a habit–and eventually a profession–of...

If truth doesn’t set you free, generosity of spirit will.

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That’s all I’m really trying to do.

Always try to come back to your senses when in love, because that’s the moment you become almost carried away by sensuality and sentiments.

Anger should be especially kept down in punishing, because he who comes to punishment in wrath will never hold that middle course which lies between the too much and the too little. It is also...