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Emotion Quotes
"If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it."
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"The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way."
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"There was tremendous emotion. Every shift was so emotional."
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"We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have."
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"You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration."
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"The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them."
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"The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality."
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"Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough."
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"I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions."
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"Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, "Bob would be very disappointed in you."
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"What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance."
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"When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score."
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"I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily."
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"A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels."
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"I know where I came from-but where did all you zombies come from?I felt a headache coming on, but a headache powder is one thing I do not take. I did once-and you all went away.So I crawled into bed and whistled out the light.You aren't really there at all. There isn't anybody but me-Jane-here alone in the dark.I miss you dreadfully!"
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"But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world. Even though she knew it was a wicked thing to do."
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"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."
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"I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed out my words. I want to get all fucked up and write raw and ugly about all these things I see and am and could be."
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"My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really, the story was: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and his fear ate him alive."
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"Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning."
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"She was tired of being the one who cried."
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"It was one thing to accept I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could."
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"He beat you." And as I spoke the words I felt a terrible anger come together inside me. It wasn't hot and furious, as some of my flashes of temper tend to be. This was different, slow and cold."
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"I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again."
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"I know my mouth is agape and my eyes are wide, but I'm relieved that hope isn't a tangible thing, because everyone around me would see mine crumbling."
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"All great and precious things are lonely."
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"He had a nice smile. Seeing it, I felt like I'd won a prize, because he was so sparing with them."
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"Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free."
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"You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-- no matter how smart or accomplished--they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love and a peaceful heart."
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