#motions

Emotions have taught mankind to reason. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#mankind #reason #taught

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#damaged #emotions #mind #perfection #twisted

Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, for example, which programme us to override our rational brain and act more instinctively. ↗

— Evan Davis

#baggage #behavioural #beings #brain #bring

You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought. ↗

— Richard Blackmore

#greater #invention #mind #motion #motions

Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person." "That's true. That's the truest thing you ever said." "All right. I can respect that. Only you've got to play the game. Don't force an emotional situation and then blame me for it." "But I don't want any situation. I want to be left in peace. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#emotions #freedom #happiness #love #peace

It was unnerving. She'd looked at him and had the uncontrollable urge to weep. Thus far she'd managed to control her emotions. Thank God. She didn't even want to imagine what he would think of her if she started weeping for absolutely no reason. ↗

— Debbie Macomber

#crying #debbie-macomber #emotions #feelings #the-trouble-with-angels

Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people's opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #life #motivational #self-empowerment #success

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#inspiration #life #wisdom #inspirational

Music has the power to stop time. When I listen to songs, I'm transported back to the moment of their birth, which is sometimes even before the moment of my birth. Old songs, rock or soul or blues, still connect with me because the human emotions in them, whether jealousy or rage or hope, are recognizably similar to the emotions that I'm feeling now. But I'm feeling all of them, all the time, and so the songs act like a chemical process that isolates certain feelings at certain times: maybe one song helps illuminate the jubilation and one helps illuminate the sorrow and one helps illuminate the resignation. Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time. ↗

— Questlove

#music #time #jealousy

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