#motions

...workplace dynamics are no less complicated or unexpectedly intense than family relations, with only the added difficulty that whereas families are at least well-recognised and sanctioned loci for hysteria reminiscent of scenes from Medea, office life typically proceeds behind a mask of shallow cheerfulness, leaving workers grievously unprepared to handle the fury and sadness continually aroused by their colleagues. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#emotions #families #relationships #work #workplace

He tries to force the anger down, but it's like an anvil on his chest. He closes his eyes, like Sammy taught him, and forces the anvil up; he softens. ↗

— Chris Crutcher

#communication #emotions #keeping-one-s-cool #relationships #anger

How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation. ↗

— Judith Orloff

#emotions #inspiration #judith-orloff #reaction #freedom

The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change. ↗

— Edward Levi

#appears #artificial #attempt #cause #change

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#confidence #create #creative #creative spirit #dictate

Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don't think it's any of that — it's helpless ... it's absence of control — and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... and anger doesn't provide any of that — I have no use for it whatsoever." [Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.] ↗

— Toni Morrison

#control #emotions #inspiration #power #writing

We cannot let go of the past enough to live in the present unless we are able to grieve our losses. We must deeply feel our emotional pain in order to accept that what is happening is not what we wanted. pg 155 ↗

— John Kuypers

#happiness #inspirational-quotes #present-moment #self-improvement #inspirational

Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions. ↗

— David Borenstein

#emotions #feelings #his #logical #man

These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed. ↗

— Ricky Martin

#come #conquer #emotions #even #existed

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#education #going #institutions #knowing #limited