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#1

“you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#2

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
― Alphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden

tags: complaints, glass-half-full, gratitude, misattributed-abraham-lincoln, optimism, perspective, pessimism, positive-thinking, roses, thorns

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#3

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: emotions, mercy

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#4

“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...”
― Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight

tags: at-first-sight, emotions, healing, heartbreak, love, nicholas, nicholas-sparks, sparks

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#5

“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

tags: emotions, life, spiritual

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#6

“Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.”
― Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret

tags: anime, emotions, funny, humor, manga, provoke, troublesome

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#7

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
― Horace Walpole

tags: comedy, emotions, life, perspective, thinking, tragedy

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#8

“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#9

“I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”
― Jess C Scott, The Devilin Fey

tags: dark, dark-divine, dark-humor, dark-lover, darkness, desire, emotion, emotional, emotional-plague, emotionally-scared, emotions, envy, gothic, gothic-fiction, gothic-romance, incubus, life, love, lust, paranormal, paranormal-fiction, paranormal-romance, passion, self, succubus, supernatural, supernaturalism, truth, urban-fantasy

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#10

“Life's harder, the deeper you feel things, was all I could think as I put the books away. Feelings, who needs them? Sometimes they're like a gift, when you feel love or happiness. Sometimes they're a curse.”
― John Marsden, The Dead of Night

tags: emotions, feelings

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#11

“Evelyn: There's nothing wrong with embracing one's emotions.
Brittany: Mom, You don't just embrace your emotions, you make love to them hard-core.”
― Gena Showalter, Catch a Mate

tags: emotions, gena-showalter, humor

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#12

“I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt

tags: emotions, sadness

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#13

“But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

tags: emotions, feelings

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#14

“Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.”
― P.D. James, The Children of Men

tags: emotions, experience, feel, pain

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#15

“A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: bad-days, beautiful, divine-intervention, god, loneliness, quality-time, refresh, restoration, signs, solitude

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#16

“I wonder how one can hate to love and love to hate the same person over a period of time in a relationship”
― Dr. Amit Abraham

tags: emotions, hate, love, relationship, wonder

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#17

“Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

tags: attitude, authority, control, discipline, lacking, out-of-control, permission, self-control, self-will, will

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#18

“I'm not going to be hardened by these people, to these things, I'm not going to let them destroy my feelings or my emotions.”
― Pete Doherty

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#19

“I keep telling you that feeling is not selective. You can't feel pain, you aren't gonna feel anything else either.”
― Judith Guest

tags: depression, emotions

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#20

“For me, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them. Feel with them …”
― Morrie Schwartz

tags: emotions, feelings, life, living, talk

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#21

“Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.”
― Kij Johnson, The Fox Woman

tags: emotions, happiness

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#22

“What she really craved was a connection. That feeling you got when you knew you were supposed to be with someone.”
― J. Sterling, In Dreams

tags: emotions, love

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#23

“people will forget what you said, people will forget what you do, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Jason Barger

tags: emotions, feelings, people, relationships

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#24

“Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can love, whom he himself sees as, a good person who has treated him well, but to love also the polar opposite is what separates love from fickle emotions.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

tags: commitment, complication, dedication, devil, emotions, energy, fickle, forgiveness, laziness, life, love, perseverance, persistent, theory

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#25

“As a rule, we don't like to feel to sad or lonely or depressed. So why do we like music (or books or movies) that evoke in us those same negative emotions? Why do we choose to experience in art the very feelings we avoid in real life?

Aristotle deals with a similar question in his analysis of tragedy. Tragedy, after all, is pretty gruesome. […] There's Sophocles's Oedipus, who blinds himself after learning that he has killed his father and slept with his mother. Why would anyone watch this stuff? Wouldn't it be sick to enjoy watching it? […] Tragedy's pleasure doesn't make us feel "good" in any straightforward sense. On the contrary, Aristotle says, the real goal of tragedy is to evoke pity and fear in the audience. Now, to speak of the pleasure of pity and fear is almost oxymoronic. But the point of bringing about these emotions is to achieve catharsis of them - a cleansing, a purification, a purging, or release. Catharsis is at the core of tragedy's appeal.”
― Brandon W. Forbes, Radiohead and Philosophy: Fitter Happier More Deductive

tags: emotions, philosophy, tragedy

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#26

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cats, humor, women

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#27

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness

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#28

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
― Anaïs Nin

tags: men, women

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#29

“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?”
― Chris Rock

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#30

“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.”
― Lady Gaga

tags: love, romance, work

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