#motions

The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity. ↗

— John Strachan

#awakened #called #charm #christian #constitute

You're always dealing with emotions as an actor. ↗

— Clive Owen

#always #dealing #emotions #you

When you're playing somebody who's going through a lot - frustration and hardship - you're just purging all your emotions, and it feels really good to do that. ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

#feels #frustration #going #good #hardship

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#desires #emotions #fears #form #human

When we refuse to work with our disappointment, we break the Precepts: rather than experience the disappointment, we resort to anger, greed, gossip, criticism. Yet it's the moment of being that disappointment which is fruitful; and, if we are not willing to do that, at least we should notice that we are not willing. The moment of disappointment in life is an incomparable gift that we receive many times a day if we're alert. This gift is always present in anyone's life, that moment when 'It's not the way I want it! ↗

— Charlotte Joko Beck

#disappointment #emotions #growth #life #suffering

I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me like snakes and toads looking for a chance to sneak out before I could stop them. ↗

— Gloria Whelan

#control #emotions #spite #anger

...emotions fly humans toward art ↗

— Rachel Hartman

#emotions #art

He wore the evidence of thinking all over his face, open and easy to read. Leah envied him that confidence to show what he was feeling. ↗

— Lauren Dane

#feelings #thoughts #business

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them. ↗

— Criss Jami

#articulation #communication #controversy #disapproval #emotions

My mom and dad died, but in their place I got a house of fog that’s easy to hide my feelings in. (No smoking, please.)  ↗