EMOTION QUOTES II

quotations about emotion

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Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality.

DAVE GALANTER

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Emotions are raised in us, not only by the qualities and actions of others, but also by their feelings. I cannot behold a man in distress, without partaking of his pain; nor in joy, without partaking of his pleasure.

HENRY HOME KAMES

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I have feelings, but my pen cannot and will not write feelings; nay, my heart has no mind that can coin them into words.

LYMAN ABBOTT

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An emotion is like one of those dashboard sensor lights, "No, check engine," right? I'm angry. "Oh, maybe this is a sign that I should get curious about why am I angry? What's going on with me?"

PAUL TEVIS

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The fact of the matter is that, since we are determined always to keep our feelings to ourselves, we have never given any thought to the manner in which we should express them. And suddenly there is within us a strange and obscene animal making itself heard, whose tones may inspire as much alarm in the person who receives the involuntary, elliptical and almost irresistible communication of one's defect or vice as would the sudden avowal indirectly and outlandishly proffered by a criminal who can no longer refrain from confessing to a murder of which one had never imagined him to be guilty.

MARCEL PROUST

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Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that's mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we're not alone.

FRED ROGERS

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Emotions can keep you ill. When the brain warns of danger, emotion leaps into action; blood pressure increases, adenaline flows into the blood stream, muscles tense. When emergency passes, the emotions let up and we relax. But when the danger does not go away ... the emotions keep pouring out distress signals which may ultimately manifest themselves physically.

BLAKE CLARK

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We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion.

JOHN DEWEY

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Emotions talked to you before you had words, so listen to them ... they are often more honest than the mind's remarkable ability to self deceive.

WM. PAUL YOUNG

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There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbs all these incorporeal spirits, and the perfume of all these flowers.

JEAN PAUL RICHTER

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People who think they can control their negative emotions and manifest them when they want to, simply deceive themselves. Negative emotions depend on identification; if identification is destroyed in some particular case, they disappear. The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.

P. D. OUSPENSKY

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He who embodies his own emotions in the verbiage of his tongue and pen, addresses an eternal audience; for human nature is identical, and its highest vernacular never changes.

MAGOON

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If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe.

FRANK HERBERT

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Is "UGH" an emotion? Because I feel it all the time.

ANONYMOUS

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Loving emotions, like plants, shoot up most rapidly in the tempestuous atmosphere of life.

JOHN PAUL F. RICHTER

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Calm feeling is like a lake without ripples; emotion is like ripples appearing on the surface of the lake, that change the appearance of whatever is reflected there.

SWAMI KRIYANANDA

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Funny about feelings, they seem to come and go in a flash yet outlast metal.

JOHN UPDIKE

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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

H.P. LOVECRAFT

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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion
That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble
Drops some careless word, it overflows and its secret,
Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

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If as children our inner emotions had been repeatedly heard and validated in a loving way, then as adults we wouldn't get stuck in negative emotions. But most of us weren't supported this way as children, so we have to do it for ourselves.

JOHN GRAY

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