#motions

I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden. ↗

— Lars von Trier

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If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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I have never counted on someone to take care of my emotions for me. ↗

— Mary Mihalic

#centered #emotions #faith #love #motivation

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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

— John Travolta

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Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered. ↗

— Andy Warhol

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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

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