The whole idea of emotions being something we can't escape as humans, but that deep suffering that comes from resisting them, we… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
People repeat in adult life emotions they experience in childhood. Many of the people whom I spent the last 30 or 40… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
Most of the time I write my best songs just from feeling a strong emotion, so whether I'm just really angry or… — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
What is true for the emotions may also be true for the intellect. Some of our perplexities may come from a mismatch… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When I am most successful as a guitar player is when I'm able to just sort of lose myself. You stop thinking… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
I don't really see huge barriers between any styles of music. My definition of music is "organizing sound and silence into emotion,"… — Stefon Harris Copy Share Image
The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy. Our thoughts… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
“You see, people are struggling to control their behaviors and actions because they don’t have control over their emotions and feelings. They… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced… — David Brin Copy Share Image
The typhoon came out of the sea first as a deep hollow roar. ... I was surrounded by the madness, the unreason,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from the expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness… — Harvey Dorfman Copy Share Image
Everyone wants a happy life without difficulties or suffering. We create many of the problems we face. No one intentionally creates problems,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
How to survive boarding school. Do not express emotion, do not feel emotion, do not have emotion. If someone hits you, hit… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Tertön Sogyal, the Tibetan Mystic, said that he was not really impressed by someone who could turn the floor into the ceiling… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“We didn't need light & shade, irony or humor. An iconic Daltrey bellow could convey an extrodinary range of human emotion; withering… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys,… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
When you feel yourself in the grip of an emotion such as jealousy or anger or sorrow, detach yourself from it. Take… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
I don't need you to agree with me," she said quietly." I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“[M]y favorite teacher was explaining that you don't say but however . These are pleonasms: the use of more words than necessary… — Stefano Benni Copy Share Image
The Time that Remains is a way of interpreting a certain ambience or emotion. These are the stories that my father told… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
I mean, I can do that all day long. I can tell you the Vulcan's are not actually devoid of emotion. That… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
The anger came creeping back like the leak from a dripping water tank, the fall of each individual drop passing almost unnoticed… — Anthony Loyd Copy Share Image
Jazz is for joy. It's for euphoria, it's for emotion, and anguish, and excitement, and all of the joys that great art… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
Time does not act on memory to soften the edges, blur the details; if anything, it sharpens them. Emotions may lose their… — Susan Moody Copy Share Image
If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Singing is not about timbres or category labels, singing is about fascinating acoustical properties like the colors of the human voice which… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Writing is transcendental. It is a form of expression, a form of art that you can take anywhere. That you can do… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Once you realize that what I’m saying is true and comes from the heart, then it’s easy. But if you see it… — Pete Doherty Copy Share Image
If you can surrender your protection devices, in order to track the potentially raw and perhaps elusive emotions that are the song's… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
It is easier to analyze a work in its form, in its evolution, than simply to love it with all the living… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could at least attempt… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image