"Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true."

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"Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true."

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"The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Joy is sacred blessing."

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"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?"

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"Here's to the past. Thank God it's past!"

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

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"Every bond is a bond to sorrow."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

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"Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"Pleasure can turn the body into a slave. Desire can turn the mind into a fool. Passion can turn the heart into a beast. Love can turn the soul into an angel."

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"'Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry."

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"But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it."

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"It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens."

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