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It is, you must concede, unpleasantly messy, this business of having feelings, this mattering to each other. I've always thought of it as gory, a sort of perpetually occurring road accident--everyone going too fast, too close, without due care and attention, or with too much...
Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down -- and they will -- even your best-laid plans will fall flat.
PHILLIP C. MCGRAW, Relationship Rescue
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
H.P. LOVECRAFT, Supernatural Horror in Literature
Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality.
DAVE GALANTER, Troublesome Minds
Emotions are the colors of the soul.
WM. PAUL YOUNG, The Shack
People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Feeling is the oil of life.
Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes; but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
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