"I think that emotions affect you as much as x-rays and vitamins and car crashes."

Emotions, Emotion, Impact, Health, Science

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"I think that emotions affect you as much as x-rays and vitamins and car crashes."

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"Anguish heart attack is tightly packed on to people with actions full of emotions and personal tragedies yet they can overcome it with personal self esteem and nice thinking."

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"The truth is "#9dream" is a descendant of "Norwegian Wood". Both are ghost stories. "She" in "Norwegian Wood" curses you with loneliness. The "Two spirits dancing so strange" in "#9dream" bless you with harmony. But people prefer loneliness to harmony."

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"Acidity' happens when too much of acidic emotion is still suppressed inside, let go of it and the body will respond."

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"Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.You could not believe I was more than your echo."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"You're not eating anything," said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. I can't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat whenyou are in the depths of despair?"I've never been in the depths of despair, so I can't say," responded Marilla. Weren't you? Well, did you ever try to IMAGINE you were inthe depths of despair?"No, I didn't."Then I don't think you can understand what it's like. It's very uncomfortable a feeling indeed."

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"Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"He was so lonely that he laughed at himself."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"There is such a thing as emotional rubbish; it is produced in the factories of the mind. It consists of pain that has long since passed and is no longer useful. It consists of precautions that were important in the past, but that serve no purpose in the present."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

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"Lonely was much better than alone."

Toni Morrison, American Novelist

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