"The same thing that had happened with the flowers was happening with my longing: once I held it in my hands, I didn't know where to put it."

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"The same thing that had happened with the flowers was happening with my longing: once I held it in my hands, I didn't know where to put it."

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"The hunger for attention is usually a result of low self-esteem and the lack of unconditional self-love."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

Emotion, Attention, Self-Esteem, Love, Needs

"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

"Strong anger can only make you weaker than you already are."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Emotion, Anger, Strength, Weakness

"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

"Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake."

Veronica Roth, American Author

Emotion, Fear, Awakening, Power

"It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Emotion, Life, Laughter, Sun, Meaning

"He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't."

Stephen King, American Author

Emotion, Truth, Power, Regret, Today

"A little inhumanity does not describe you as heartless, rather, it is a way of telling others that you have a heart that can get angry."

Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

Emotion, Anger, Humanity, Truth

"My mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!why don't you ever smile?"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was thesaddest smile I ever saw."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Emotion, Sadness, Family, Abuse, Happiness

"Sometimes it's hard to look at a flower, when your dying inside."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Emotion, Pain, Death, Sadness, Struggle

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"We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake."

Dreams

"Jacinta never told Penelope that she loved her. The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words."

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"He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets ..."

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"I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain I had caused her and returning to her what I never known how to give her. These pages will be our memory until she drows her last breath in my arms and I take her forever and escape at last to a place where neither heaven nor hell will ever be able to find us."

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"I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die."

Mortality

"Some disappointments honor those who inspire them."

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"The hunger for attention is usually a result of low self-esteem and the lack of unconditional self-love."

"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."

"Strong anger can only make you weaker than you already are."

"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."

"Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake."

"It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun."

"He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't."

"A little inhumanity does not describe you as heartless, rather, it is a way of telling others that you have a heart that can get angry."

"My mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!why don't you ever smile?"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was thesaddest smile I ever saw."

"Sometimes it's hard to look at a flower, when your dying inside."

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"We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake."

"Jacinta never told Penelope that she loved her. The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words."

"He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets ..."

"I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die."

"Some disappointments honor those who inspire them."