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Quotes about emotions
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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. (Bernsen Corbin)
The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no. (Bernsen Corbin)
It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. (Bernsen Corbin)
Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also. (Bernsen Corbin)
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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam. (Bernsen Corbin)
By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it. (Bernsen Corbin)
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all. (Bernsen Corbin)
There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated. (Bernsen Corbin)
Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup. (Bernsen Corbin)
You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes. (Bernsen Corbin)
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. (Bernsen Corbin)
Our emotions are only incidents in the effort to keep day and night together. (Bernsen Corbin)
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. (Bernsen Corbin)
If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself. (Bernsen Corbin)
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion. (Bernsen Corbin)
If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions. (Bernsen Corbin)
We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance. (Bernsen Corbin)
He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. (Bernsen Corbin)
When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score. (Bernsen Corbin)
The heart is half a prophet. (Bernsen Corbin)
All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. (Bernsen Corbin)
Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions. (Bernsen Corbin)
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs. (Bernsen Corbin)
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. (Bernsen Corbin)
Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end. (Bernsen Corbin)
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