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George Eliot

"The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past."

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"The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past."

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Amber Hurdle

"To say 'I want to have sex with this person' is to express a desire which is not intellectually directed in the way that 'I want to eradicate poverty in the world' is an intellectually directed desire. Furthernore, the gratification of sexual desire can only ever give temporary satisfaction. Thus as Nagarjuna, the great Indian scholar said: 'When you have an itch, you scratch. But not to itch at all is better than any amount of scratching."

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Amber Hurdle

"When animals behave like humans or when humans behave like animals, don't be surprised because in every animal there is a human and in every human there is an animal!"

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"Help does not come from anywhere outside - it comes only from within ourselves."

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"To open door to hatred is to open one's spirit to misery."

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Amber Hurdle

"Express your regrets to the right people and you will be encouraged positively."

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"Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy of any one family's history."

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"Negative thoughts about ourselves steals our energy."

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Amber Hurdle

"Dwelling on thoughts gives birth to feelings."

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"All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that her bad performance was spoiling the whole affair."

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"Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night."
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