#motions

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. ↗

— Jean Racine

#emotions #feeling #life #thinking #tragedy

I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged. ↗

— Koren Zailckas

#emotions #families #family #family-therapy #memoir

She felt whatever emotions she felt, but feeling was never a useful substitute for doing, and she never let the former get in the way of the latter. If anything, she used her emotions to motivate her and help her concentrate. The emphasis for her was always on doing what needed to be done. ↗

— Will Schwalbe

#emotions #life

You don’t get one chance at life but many over one lifetime. ↗

— Elize Amornette

#elize-amornette #elize-amornette-author #private-emotions-trilogy #romance-book #romance-novel-books

I think there were times when I was so afraid of losing you that I forgot I even had you at all. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#breakups #emotions #fear #heartache #loss

What is this "heart"? If I tear open that chest of yours, will I see it there? If I smash open that skull of yours, will I see it there? ~ulquiorra ↗

— Tite Kubo

#emotions #heart #love #love

I find that is the best way to write during emotional scenes...put yourself and your emotions in every single word.-Nina Jean Slack ↗

— Nina Jean Slack

#authors #emotional #emotions #love #words

At Rochester, I came with the same emotions as many of the entering freshman: everything was new, exciting and a bit overwhelming, but at least nobody had heard of my brothers and cousins. ↗

— Steven Chu

#brothers #came #cousins #emotions #entering

Most people don't realize turkeys are friendly, they're social, they're loyal, they have emotions. ↗

— Shannon Elizabeth

#friendly #loyal #most #people #realize

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. ↗

— Paul Engle

#blooded #delicate #emotions #held #ideas