#motion

Love is not an emotion. It is a policy. ↗

— Hugh Bishop of Mirfield

#love #love

What some fail to understand and keep in their minds is that I am always fundamentally promoting the 'Things of God', The Cause of Jesus Christ, and The Kingdom of God ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods

Emotions unreel in her like spools of cotton. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#simile #women #simile

It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#emotion #leadership #education

Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realise how widespread envy was. ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#envy #unhappiness #love

When people are afraid, they make emotional decisions. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#decisions #emotional #make #people

When a tender affection has been storing itself in us through many of our years, the idea that we could accept any exchange for it seems to be a cheapening of our lives. And we can set a watch over our affections and our constancy as we can over other treasures. ↗

— George Eliot

#feelings #value #life

People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness. ↗

— Meg Wolitzer

#eaten #emotion #food #life #meal

However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the new religion of Commotionism, which believes that the meaning of life is constant company, movement and noise. ↗

— Michael Foley

#detachment #solitude #life

Like two side to a coin, there are two sides to life: your reason and emotional facets. ↗

— Ami Blackwelder

#emotion #life #reason #life