"... sterile, splendid torture of understanding and loving..."

Emotion, Understanding, Pain, Complexity

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"Causes for attachment are created at the very time abhorrence occurs. Familiarity (acquaintance) up to a certain point will result in attachment and if it reaches 'ridge point' & goes past further, it will result in abhorrence."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Emotion, Attachment, Abhorrence, Life, Truth

"I can hear your angered silence,Taste your bitterness.Now I smell your vengeance,Yet see your lonely emptiness.I am your broken heart."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Emotion, Anger, Silence, Heart

"The fears we keep alive, will be a recurring haunt until it dies, or we do."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Emotion, Fear, Mortality, Life

"Jealousy is love in competition."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Emotion, Truth, Inspirational, Power, Wisdom

"Belikov is a sick, evil man who should be thrown into a pit of rabid vipers for the great offense he commited against you this morning.""Thank you." I said primly. Then, I considered. "Can vipers be rabid?""I don't see why not. Everything can be. I think. Canadian geese might be worse than vipers, though.""Canadian geese are deadlier than vipers?""You ever try to feed those little bastards? They're vicious. You get thrown to vipers, you die quickly. But the geese? That'll go on for days. More suffering.""Wow. I don't know whether I should be impressed or frightened that you've thought about all of this."

Richelle Mead, American Author

Emotion, Anger, Humor, Animals, Suffering

"You want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you're wounded by your own feelings & resentful others don't seem to care..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

Emotion, Change, Feelings, Resentment

"It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

Emotion, Depth, Feeling, Mind

"I realised I got anxious because my true aspiration wasn't to become the chief of a multi-billion dollar, multi-national company that created widgets or some shit."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Emotion, Anxiety, Aspiration, Self, Reflection

"And you finally get there, you reach a point where you refuse to feel anymore pain and the desire to chase happiness out weighs any choice that gives you reason to question where you're headed."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

Emotion, Pain, Happiness, Choice, Desire

"Nico's voice was like broken glass. "I- I wasn't in love with Annabeth.""You were jealous of her," Jason said. "That's why you didn't want to be around her. Especially why you don't want to be around... him. It makes total sense."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Emotion, Truth, Regret, Love, Today

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"What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us."

Love, Woman

"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."

Time, People

"It is always thus impaled by a state of mind which is destined not to last that we make our irrevocable decisions."

Life, Decision, Mindset, Impermanence, Change

"People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad."

Grief, Memory, Death, Presence

"We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes."

Desire, Succeed

"... seeking to indicate to her by the extent of his gratitude the corresponding intensity of the pleasures which it was in her power to bestow on him, the supreme pleasure being to guarantee him immunity, for as long as his love should last and he remain vulnerable, from the assaults of jealousy."

Love, Gratitude, Power, Sensitivity

"It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is why, so very often the weight of the past lies ineluctably upon the present. But that is why it is so real in memory, so wholly itself, so far beyond replacement."

Memory, Past, Reality, Regret

"Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees."

Art,

"Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things."

Life, Philosophy

"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."

Wisdom, Journey