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The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action. — William James
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. — Oscar Wilde
The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt. — George Santayana
Afflictive emotions - our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear - can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are only temporary, that… — Dalai Lama
Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it… — Madeleine L'Engle
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world. — E. W. Howe
The only way to heal the pain which will not heal itself is to forgive the person who hurt you. Forgiveness heals the memory's vision.… — Lewis B. Smedes
Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it. — Bertrand Russell
Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion. — Victor Hugo
One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left untouched for too long, they… — Sigmund Freud
Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions. — Philibert Joseph Roux
Allow motion to equal emotion. — Elbert Hubbard
What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion. — Pablo Picasso
Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man. — Karl Pearson
We cannot heal the throbbing heart till we discern the wounds within. — George Crabbe
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we… — Charles Caleb Colton
The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it. — Charles Dudley Warner
I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise. — William Shakespeare
Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate. — George Bernard Shaw
Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it. — John Dewey
The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to… — Karen Horney
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of… — Samuel Johnson

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