Quotes about Emotional Resonance

I am ashamed. I play a diminished chord because I am diminished.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you." –

Once you've read a book you care about, some parts of it always stay with you.

Some stories are so familiar its like going home.

the violin — that most human of all instruments…

How close the dead are. One song away from the living.

Then it became clear that it was a song, the loneliest sort of song because the notes changed so little, like one bird calling and waiting for another to answer. It was as lonely a sound as she'd ever heard.

The song was wistful as the ballads Slidell and the Clayton brothers played, except words weren't needed to feel the yearning. That made the music all the more sorrowful, because this song wasn't about one lost love or one dead child or parent. It was as if the music was about every loss that had ever been.

El arte es una herida hecha luz, decía Georges Braque. Necesitamos esa luz, no sólo los que escribimos o pintamos o componemos música, sino también los que leemos y vemos cuadros y escuchamos un concierto. Todos necesitamos la belleza para que la vida nos sea soportable.

El arte es una herida hecha luz, decía Georges Braque. Necesitamos esa luz, no sólo los que escribimos o pintamos o componemos música, sino también los que leemos y vemos cuadros y escuchamos un concierto. Todos necesitamos la belleza para que la vida nos sea soportable. Lo expresó muy bien Fernando Pessoa: La literatura, como el arte en general, es la demostración de que la vida no basta.

the sound of her laughter brought back, with a piercing clarity, ringing across the years, the memory of other laughter, and the unexpected ecstasies and physical joys that happen, perhaps, only once in any person's lifetime.

Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?

Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the library I couldn't help but notice which patrons checked out the same books. They appeared to have nothing in common, but who could tell what a person was truly made of? The unknown, the riddle, the deepest truth. I noticed them all: the ones who'd lost their way, the ones who'd lived their lives in ashes, the ones who had to prove themselves, the ones who, like me, had lost the ability to feel.

some things you carry around inside you as though they were part of your blood and bones, and when that happens, there's nothing you can do to forget.

Sighing, Irene said, Why is it that we can love so much that which only makes us cry? Susannah thought for only a moment, and then, with certainty, she said: Because it is that which calls us home to the heart.

Did people leave you, did their spirits simply take off, because you wouldn't read a book that turned them on? He now knew the answer was yes.

Did I mention my first sight of the African coast? Something struck in me, in my soul, Celie, like a large bell, and I just vibrated. Corrine and Samuel felt the same. And we kneeled down right on deck and gave thanks to God for letting us see the land for which our mothers and fathers cried --- and lived and died --- to see again.

Without the fingerprint of the heart, it would only be sound... not music.

People who love reading are often called bookworms — but that's the wrong way around. It's not you that worms into a book; it's books that worm into you." — Amanda Craig

I remember how much rock and roll music can hurt. It can be so free and sexy when you are not.

Allow it to flow in and out of your heart, all the while deepening and relaxing your breath. Keeping your attention on your heart, call up an elevated emotion and sustain this feeling for a period of time while paying attention to your breathing.

So if you want to change a belief or perception, you have to first change your state of being. And changing your state of being means changing your energy, because in order for you to affect matter, you have to become more energy and less matter, more wave and less particle. That requires you to combine a clear intention and an elevated emotion—those are the two ingredients. As

Cuando combinamos una emoción elevada con un corazón abierto, y una intención consciente con un pensamiento claro, hacemos que el campo nos responda de forma asombrosa.

You may want wealth, you may think "wealthy" thoughts, but if you feel poor, you aren't going to attract financial abundance to yourself. Why not? Because thoughts are the language of the brain, and feelings are the language of the body. You're thinking one way and feeling another way.