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• We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Responsibility, Emotional, Thinking

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• When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say, "I am the watcher, I am not sadness," and see the difference. Immediately you have cut the very root of sadness. It is no more nourished. It will die of starvation. We feed these emotions by being identified with them.

  Rajneesh

  Sadness, Cutting, Roots

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• The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.

  Barbara Deming

  Giving, Destroying, Masters

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• Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

  Agnes Martin

  Art, Feelings, Subtle

  "Perfection Is in the Mind". Interview with Joan Simon, August 21, 1995.

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• Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Rely Upon, Literature, Void

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• Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Opinion, Impossible

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• Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Emotional, Feelings, Tongue

  'Menschliches, Allzumenschliches' (1867-80) vol. 2, sect. 1, no. 202

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• The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Fear, Halloween, Strong Emotions

  H.P. Lovecraft, Digital Papyrus (2014). “H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)”, eBookIt.com

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• Our emotions Are only “incidents” In the effort to keep day and night together.

  T. S. Eliot

  Night, Effort, Together

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.184, Faber & Faber

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• Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.

  James Otis

  Men, Tyrants, Soul

  "James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". James Otis' speech (February 1761), as quoted in William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.

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• The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Strong, Knowing

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• He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

  Thomas Paine

  Heart, Reality, Imagination

  The Rights of Man pt. 1 (1791)

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• Never borrow sorrow from tomorrow.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Sorrow, Tomorrow

  Helen Steiner Rice (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.116, Revell

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• But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

  Ho Chi Minh

  Confidence, Reading, Joy

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Book, Reading, Sickness

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?

  Han Suyin

  Hate, Years, Terrible

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• I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I'm acting, I feel great. It's not to be famous.

  Christopher Parker

  People, Acting, Fantastic

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• The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

  Donald A. Norman

  Philosophy, Important, Overcoming

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• We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.

  Stephen Covey

  Tension, Disharmony, Internals

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• But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion.

  Jim Hodges

  People, Come Up

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• The emotions of the game do not change.

  Jack Youngblood

  Change, Games

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• I can't say I have control over my emotions; I don't know my mind. I'm lost like everyone else. I'm certainly not a leader.

  Richard Gere

  Leader, Mind, Lost

  "Richard Gere: My Journey as a Buddhist". Interview with Melvin McLeod, www.lionsroar.com. 1999.

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• Every angry thought makes it a little easier to get angry the next time, and a little more likely.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Anger, Littles, Next

  Eknath Easwaran (2009). “Essence of the Upanishads: A Key to Indian Spirituality”, p.167, Nilgiri Press

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• There is no enemy more vicious than your own anger.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Anger, Enemy, Vicious

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• To be is not a choice, but the way you feel about it certainly is.

  Deepak Chopra

  Choices, Way, Feels

  Deepak Chopra (2011). “Unconditional Life: Discovering the Power to Fulfill Your Dreams”, p.130, Bantam

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