All Quotes By Tag: Emotions
“Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.”
“Do not only think about it, but feel about it, also, before taking appropriate action.”
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“How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation.”
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“To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John’s Gospel we are told that Jesus was moved with the deepest emotions (11:33)… The gospel portrait of the beloved Child of Abba is that of a man exquisitely attuned to His emotions and uninhibited in expressing them. The Son of Man did not scorn of reject feelings as fickle and unreliable. They were sensitive antennae to which He listened carefully and through which He perceived the will of His Father for congruent speech and action.”
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“Among my stillness was a pounding heart.”
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“I ate some emotional soup in my childhood and have spent a lifetime trying to digest it.”
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“If you’re waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you’ll never make it.”
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“Quotes ain’t all that useful. Fact is, there’s more concise ways to express what you’re feelin’, like screams and moans.”
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“Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.”
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“Anger … it’s a paralyzing emotion … you can’t get anything done. People sort of think it’s an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don’t think it’s any of that — it’s helpless … it’s absence of control — and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers … and anger doesn’t provide any of that — I have no use for it whatsoever.”[Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.]”
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“I don’t like hope very much. In fact, I hate it. It’s the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard. It’s bad news. The worst. It’s sharp sticks and cherry bombs. When hope shows up, it’s only a matter of time until someone gets hurt.”
“Both joy and sorrow serve as gauges for love: our love for others, and their love for us.”
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“Happiness is a feeling/emotion, but Joy is state of ‘being’. One does not depend on your external circumstances, the other does.”
“For the philosopher is right who says that nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy”
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“For the philosopher is right who says that nothing is thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy”