#emotion

Every arena of life intersects with what's going on in our hearts. Everything passes through on its way to wherever it's going. Everything. ↗

— Andy Stanley

#relationships #relationship

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#science #science

So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox... ↗

— Stanisław Lem

#cycles #despair #emotion #fear #free-will

Gwynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go to a bar with her and let all the stuff sobriety pushed down be released so I could catch it in my palms and finally kiss her. She was just so sad. Melancholy was a fleshy wave permanently cresting on her face, she had to speak through it when she talked. ↗

— Michelle Tea

#emotion #longing #love #melancholy #sobriety

You cannot make yourself have a flashback, nor will you have one unless you are emotionally ready to remember something. Once remembered, the memory can help you to face more of the truth. You can then express your pent-up feelings about the memory and continue on your path to recovery. Think of the flashback as a clue to the next piece of work. No matter how painful, try to view it as a positive indication that you are now ready and willing to remember. ↗

— Beverly Engel

#emotions #flashback #healing #innocence #memory

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#body #center #emotions #ever #forget

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#blues #emotion #jazz #jazz music #much

I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like radio candy... I like the ones that make you think, laugh or cry - they pull some kind of emotion out of you. ↗

— Gary Allan

#candy #cry #emotion #feel #hear

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#about #children #choice #emotionally #fight

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

#duty #emotional #music #rather #regulated