"Disappointment cannot exist without expectation. "The expected apricot is never as sweet when it reaches the mouth."

Emotion, Expectation, Disappointment, Reality, Experience

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"Love and hate, despite their polar opposites, are both feelings that are induced by passion. I can handle that. It's the indifference I don't know how to process."

Colleen Hoover, American Celebrity

Emotion, Love, Hate, Passion

"Are you a kind of person who likes to keep all your emotions hidden from the people around you! Do you prefer restraining your feelings a little too much! In that case, you must know that too much emotional suppression can have catastrophic impact over your body."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Emotion, Truth, Regret, Power, Wisdom

"My chest ached, my body speaking a language my head didn't quite understand."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Emotion, Confusion, Body, Heart

"Down the road of hate, at every busted corner lurks the need for love."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Emotion, Hate, Love, Needs

"The good news is that opportunities for love enter our lives unpredictably, whether or not we've perfected self-compassion or befriended our inner critic."

Sharon Salzberg, American Author

Emotion, Love, Opportunity, Growth

"Nothing in my life has ever felt so good, yet hurt so achingly bad."

Colleen Hoover, American Celebrity

Emotion, Love, Pain, Intensity

"All our sentiments - religious, romantic or any other - are born in the neurons."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Emotion, Truth, Wisdom, Inspirational, Life

"Fear and Love are the two emotional pillars of survival."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Emotion, Fear, Love, Truth, Power

"It's amazing what the sound of a voice you've been longing to hear can do to your heart. He spoke five words just now, but in the time it took him to speak those five words, my heart was shredded and minced, then placed back inside my chest with the expectation that it should somehow know how to beat again."

Colleen Hoover, American Celebrity

Emotion, Voice, Heart, Truth

"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

Emotion, Pain, Happiness, Memory, Peace

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"You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end."

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"The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete."

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"To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides."

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"Do not try to be humble: learn humility."

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"Sufism is that which succeeds in bringing to man the High Knowledge."

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"From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information and perhaps without understanding, is possible between any individuals or groups on all levels. So the prerequisite is information."

Communication

"A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands."

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"Love and hate, despite their polar opposites, are both feelings that are induced by passion. I can handle that. It's the indifference I don't know how to process."

"Are you a kind of person who likes to keep all your emotions hidden from the people around you! Do you prefer restraining your feelings a little too much! In that case, you must know that too much emotional suppression can have catastrophic impact over your body."

"My chest ached, my body speaking a language my head didn't quite understand."

"Down the road of hate, at every busted corner lurks the need for love."

"The good news is that opportunities for love enter our lives unpredictably, whether or not we've perfected self-compassion or befriended our inner critic."

"Nothing in my life has ever felt so good, yet hurt so achingly bad."

"All our sentiments - religious, romantic or any other - are born in the neurons."

"Fear and Love are the two emotional pillars of survival."

"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace."

Explore more quotes by Idries Shah

"You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end."

"The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete."

"To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides."

"Do not try to be humble: learn humility."

"Sufism is that which succeeds in bringing to man the High Knowledge."

"From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information and perhaps without understanding, is possible between any individuals or groups on all levels. So the prerequisite is information."

"Be kind to the hawk and harm the sparrow."

"Patience is the food of understanding."

"What you are pleased to call Sufism is merely the record of past method."

"A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands."