"You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings."

Emotional, Feelings, Right

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"You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings."

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"All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy."

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"Bitterness is a broken spirit."

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"I believe in unconditional love... I believe in dangerous unselfishness... I believe in daring to achieve... I believe in making mistakes... I believe in helping others... I believe in moving on... I believe in passionate romance... I believe in living the fullness of this human experience... I believe in ME..."

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"My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible."

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"The breath of being is been able to share your bread."

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"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Avarice is the vice of declining years."

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David Brin, American Author

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"My soul struggles; I stay all night, and sleep day time."

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"The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility."

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"Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members."

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"Love dies only when growth stops."

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"To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death."

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"Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought."

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"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration."

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