Quotes About Emotion

He couldn't control what he felt, but he could certainly control what he DID.

Memory flashed, of a blue dress and a face glancing up at him, and eagerness and trepidation exchanged blows on the battlefield of his heart

The creative process is beautiful and magical thing. Whether its a song, a radio story, or a novel, it all springs from the same place in the heart.

the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral

Good pictures. Tragedy and violence certainly make powerful images. It is what we get paid for.But there is a price extracted with every such frame: some of the emotion, the vulnerability, the empathy that makes us human, is lost every time the shutter is released.

All my fellows, why license is not deposed on the beautiful eyes of a beautiful lady? They fire at men like a bullet. They cut as surely as the sword.

Fear sells better than sex and the iPhone 5 combined.

If all of the dos and don'ts of quantum possibilities are true and emotion is the key to choosing reality, then the question is: "How do we feel as if something has happened when the person next to us stares us squarely in the face and says that it hasn't?

Unlike the traditional prayers that we may have used in the past, however, this technique of prayer has no words. It is based in the silent language of human emotion. It invites us to feel gratitude and appreciation, as if our prayers have already been answered. Through this quality of feeling, the ancients believed that we're given direct access to the power of creation: the Spirit of God.

All these experiments suggest two similar conclusions, which are the crux of this book: There is something "out there": the matrix of an energy that connects any one thing with everything else in the universe. This connective field accounts for the unexpected results of the experiments. The DNA in our bodies gives us access to the energy that connects our universe, and emotion is the key to tapping in to the field.

a clock to set their hearts to.

He didn't just remember his grief, he relearned it.

Travers was still stunned. She had never heard Wotan raise his voice, let alone yell. She didn't move a muscle.

Then he was silent. Just like last time—one outburst and back to silence or dispassionate interaction.

I loved my mother because I didn't know I had a choice. I had to love her.

She looked at ways to quantify life. Analytic in nature, her head almost always overruled her heart. Love it? Hate it? She wanted to KNOW it.

I should have lived a different story, or lived the same story differently. I should have better told you, should have said: I have seen you, seen you and loved you because of what I have seen.

It was an example of what he thought of as the Law of Controversy: Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.

Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available

the Law of Controversy: Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.

Letter 74 I still have the first letter that you wrote to me. I carry it with me like a garden in my pocket. If you come to me at this moment your minutes will become hours your hours will become days and your days will become a lifetime. I am never sure if I am reading the letter or the letter is reading me.

Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.

Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.

Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.