Quotes about Emotional Resonance

It might seem that you shouldn't worry about what readers feel they're either going to feel what you want them to feel or not. But that way of thinking surrenders too much to chance. It leads to the erroneous idea that emotional effect is accidental. While it's true that you cannot control what each reader will feel while reading your work, what you can control is whether they will feel something in the first place and how strong those feelings will be.

Limbic consonance is the little-known process through which the mood of a room changes when a happy or nervous person walks in.

It's really important that you feel good. Because this feeling good is what goes out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you. So the more you can feel good, the more you will attract the things that help you feel good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher.

Music (Definition; Noun): The artistic organization of sound for the joy and experience of listening.

I just try to use my own life to build a human song: something that people can relate to in some way. It's not like the psychiatrist's couch or anything.

To share a lot of ideas - not ideas - emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.

Joy is connection... The more areas in your life you can make connection, the better.

If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded.

In the end, a person is only known by the impact he or she has on others.

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

write down all of the things out in the world that have arrested your attention lately, that have glimmered at you in some resonant way. Set them next to each other. See what happens.

Sometimes in matters of the heart words are not required. Are ill advised, in fact.

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.

Ohhh," Pumpkin moaned. May moaned in her heart too.

When you read a book, and who you are when you read it, makes it matter or not.

The idea of the book that matters most," Kiki said. "Because i think it's like impossible to pick such a book. When you read a book, and who you are when you read it, makes it matter or not. Like if you're unhappy and you read, I don't know, On the Road or The Three Musketeers, and that book changes how you fell or how you think, then it matters the most. At that time.

that just because you never thought about someone didn't mean they weren't inside you." ? Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

You haunt me still somehow, I've saved each word from you. — Anna Akhmatova, White Flock: Poetry of Anna Akhmatova . Translated by Andrey Kneller (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform July 30, 2013)

Long after you've forgotten someone's voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.

Names are like codes, yes? Like magic codes. They have everything that ever happened to you squeezed tightly inside them.