#motions

I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't make it better. And the tour was a total mess. We just had no life, no energy, and I felt we were going through the motions. ↗

— Matt Cameron

#energy #felt #going #good #good music

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#daily #daily experience #emotions #experience #genius

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#confused #emotions #intellect #lie #may

There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth. ↗

— John Travolta

#any #birth #emotions #goes #pain

Maybe with your emotions and your feelings, someone else can say it in a different way than you would, which brings new life to the way you might sing it. ↗

— Jody Watley

#different #different way #else #emotions #feelings

For me, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them. Feel with them … ↗

— Morrie Schwartz

#feelings #life #living #talk #life

...our memory is enhanced by the emotion attending the event. The more intense the feelings the more accessible to the memory is the event. Few of us live lives so emotionally charged that we can truly, accurately retrieve all of it. ...Often only our crisis events are preserved with strong emotions. For our own survival we can't forget them, and then we too easily forget the good stuff. ↗

— Robert Dykstra

#life #life

Getting all emotionally wrapped up in made-up people's lives gives me a chance to take a break from my own life [...]. ↗

— Arlaina Tibensky

#books #characters #emotions #reading #life

She was beginning to stir questions in me that I'd spent all my life refusing to ask, since the day I had looked down from the window at the broken body of the schoolboy on the flagstones a long way below, while a master hurried from the cloisters with his black gown flapping in the winter wind, to see what had happened: the day when I was suddenly old enough to understand that I had a choice. I could either do what that other boy had done, or I could spend the rest of my life outside society, where it was safe ↗

— Adam Hall

#quiller #society #suicide #life

Do not apologise for crying. without this emotion, we are only robots ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love