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Quotes About Emotion

It's just to say I love you," Mink said shyly.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
This is going to sound weird, Moon offered, but I kind of want to give you a hug right now.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
But all she wanted was to be with Clay. Near him, around him, breathing the same air and watching the same skies. That wasn't asking too much. And if it meant she wasn't hurting anyone anymore, wasn't that what everyone wanted? Maybe not. Maybe Queen Ruby wanted Peril to be miserable and alone.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Unless that's what this happy feeling is, the one I get every time I see her. Uh-oh.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Maybe the tiniest flash of me dancing on Wasp's grave?
~ Tui T. Sutherland
But he found himself picturing Qibli standing here, under this tree with Moon, and it made him feel hollowed out, like an ice cave.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Can't sleep 'cause all the dirt make my heart hurt
~ Unknown
Meetings are boring because they lack drama. Or conflict. This is a shame because most meetings have plenty of potential for drama, which is essential for keeping human beings engaged.
~ Patrick Lencioni
Martin didn't attack statements like that with emotion. He preferred what he liked to call a Sarcratic approach—a sarcastic version of the Socratic method.
~ Patrick Lencioni
Rather than avoiding a feeling, your goal should be to move toward the emotion, into it, and eventually through it.
~ Patrick Lencioni
Hai parlato con Brenda? Sì E come sta? Ancora molto scossa, come puoi immaginare. Il suo medico la tiene sotto osservazione Quanto deve odiarmi Non credo. Sopravviverà, come sopravviverai tu. La tragedia è un aspetto della vita meno raro di quanto a volte si creda.
~ Unknown
Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love...
~ Patrick O'Brian
Never be distressed, honey. I know her faults as well as any man.' 'Of course, she is very beautiful,' said Sophia, glancing at him timidly. 'Yes. Tell me, is Diana wholly in love with Jack?' 'I may be wrong,' she said, after a pause, 'I know very little about these things, or anything else; but I do not believe Diana knows what love is at all.
~ Patrick O'Brian
I remember the fact of extreme, prostrating terror,' he said ... but the inward nature of the emotion now escapes me.
~ Patrick O'Brian
I don't think of love in terms of relationships. It happens in terms of seconds, but it goes away like that, too. I pass a nurse, I love her, it ends when I go around a corner; at a restaurant I see a forlorn man at the table next to me, and I love him, and the conversation pulls me back, and it's ended. A patient comes in, and she is sick, and I love her, and then she dies, and I never see her again. This is what I live for. Don't think that it's sad.
~ Unknown
But the face I would always remember best was the one that never made the pictures. The one behind the camera.
~ Unknown
his behavior there was a perfect balance between gentleness and violence that gave her particular delight.
~ Paul Bowles
Poetry is a sort of homecoming.
~ Paul Celan
How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life.
~ Paul Celan
As Paul Tillich explains, "Either love is something other than emotion or the Great Commandment is meaningless."6 When
~ Unknown
but three emotions are so often intertwined with deceit as to merit separate explanation: fear of being caught, guilt about lying, and delight in having duped someone.
~ Paul Ekman
This simple smile is the easiest expression to recognize. We found such smiles can be seen from further away (300 feet) and with a briefer exposure than other emotional expressions.
~ Paul Ekman
Emotional risk also occurs when investors are drawn to bad investment choices just because they sound good, are popular, or are pushed by family or friends.
~ Unknown
Two wrongs don't make a right but sometimes they make me laugh. I am a vengeful god.
~ Paul Neilan