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But can one be a blessing merely by being cheerful? Yes; moral beauty of any kind exerts a silent influence for good. It is like a sweet flower by the wayside, which has a benediction for everyone who passes by. A legend tells how one day in Galilee the useful corn spurned the lilies because they fed no one’s hunger. “One cannot earn a living just by being sweet,” said the proud cereal. The lilies said nothing in reply, only seemed the sweeter, then the Master came that way; and while his disciples rested at his feet, and the rustling corn invited them to eat, he said, “Children, the life is more than meat. Consider the lilies, how beautiful they grow.” It certainly seemed worth while then just to be sweet, for it pleased the Master.
— J.R.    Miller
The message of the bicycle: Simplicity is a blessing!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Rain is Love, Love is Bliss, Bliss is Blessing.
— Mahrukh
Each day is a blessing, and I awake wondering what wonderful thing, no matter how big or small, will happen to me today.
— Ron Baratono, The Writings of Ron Baratono
An unexpected Blessing is an answer to a Prayer said, trusting that God will get to it, no matter how long it takes.
— Joan Ambu
Whatever God blesses you, enjoy with all gladness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every blessing, just like a coin, has two sides
— Sunday Adelaja
We need to start rejoicing when the devil is mad, because he sees our blessing before we do
— Sunday Adelaja
We tend to look only on one side of God’s blessing, without noticing the other side of the coin
— Sunday Adelaja
With every blessing comes temptation, tests and persecution
— Sunday Adelaja
It is important to remember that we are attacked not because we are bad, but because the devil doesn’t like God blessing us
— Sunday Adelaja
If the devil starts putting obstacles in our way , that means God has a special plan of blessing for us
— Sunday Adelaja
God’s blessings causes the other person to pay attention to you and favor you
— Sunday Adelaja
God always gives riches to diligent people who persistently aim for the goal and who continue to be diligent
— Sunday Adelaja
God is always faithful to His principles, and for this reason He blesses the diligent
— Sunday Adelaja
Blessing is special attention God gives us
— Sunday Adelaja
Everything in life is a blessing, however, sometimes we have to work through a lesson or challenge to earn it.
— Nanette Mathews
Can anything be called an achievement if it does not simultaneously enhance the life of someone other than the one who has done the achieving?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The uncertainty of the future is a great blessing for us humans! Let the road ahead of us be completely unknown for us so that we can have the marvellous joy of discovering it!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
May We Love Ourselves. May We Love Each Other.May We Believe that Our Dreams Can Come True.We Are Strong.We Are Wise.We Are the Heroines of our Own Lives -The Heroine’s Club benediction
— Melia Keeton-Digby, The Heroines Club: A Mother-Daughter Empowerment Circle
May the grey winds guide you and keep you safe.
— Annie Morecambe, Isle of Tana
I suppose that one of my greatest problem lays in the fact that I have assumed a blessing to be something that is mine for the taking, verses being something that by sheer exposure to it takes me.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Although I had nothing to offer in return, I came to understand that there was something beneficially reciprocal happening to the people who were blessing me. For a few minutes, they suspended their normal egocentric lives, placed a fellow human being in higher priority than themselves, and expressed their hopes for the other's peace and well-being. In so doing, they inevitably lived life on a higher plane, if only for a few moments. It always smelled like the kingdom of God to me.
— David Brazzeal, Pray Like a Gourmet: Creative Ways to Feed Your Soul
Meeting him was a miracle. He was a precious gift sent from God from heaven above!
— Lily Amis, Angel of Love  Lily: Zak, My Sweet Inspiration
To fulfil God’s need is to enjoy immeasurable blessings
— Sunday Adelaja
To be focused on acquiring material things is to forfeit blessings associated with eternal reward
— Sunday Adelaja
God does not consult anyone about His blessings, He decides whose life to pour blessing on
— Sunday Adelaja
The devil will fine about your blessing and will make sure that your blessings become your headache
— Sunday Adelaja
The devil will not be fine about your blessing and will make sure that your blessings become your headache
— Sunday Adelaja
To savor the simple privilege that every day I have a sunrise to bathe in, a storehouse of opportunities to romp through, the thick wrap of relationships to keep me warm, a God who meticulously tends to every detail round about me, and it all costs me not a dime. What madness would keep me from being eternally thankful for all that?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
When we know that His plans are to prosper us and give us hope and future, we bow down at once to the blessing of pruning, knowing that the change that will take place in us, will take us places.
— Joshua Stannard, How Good Can It Get
Standing where God's mercies fall is the guarantee for being blessed.
— Manuela George-Izunwa
When they were being blessed, there was no limit-now I am blessing others- I am giving too much!!
— Charmaine J. Forde
You are my blessing. Not because you always make me smile but because you made my heart happy.
— subtle couches
Lords of space and Lords of time,Lords of blessing, Lords of grace,Who is in the warmer clime?Who will follow Madoc's rhyme?Blue will alter time and space.
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Step out today not seeking to be in the spotlight but seeking for a spot to light - be a blessing to someone
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
For what blessing may a man hope for butAn immortality inThe loving vigilance of death.
— Robert Penn Warren
Losing something might be a blessing
—  gaining something might be a curse!
So often we think that Allah only tests us with hardships, but this isn’t true. Allah also tests with ease. He tests us with na`im (blessings) and with the things we love, and it is often in these tests that so many of us fail. We fail because when Allah gives us these blessings, we unwittingly turn them into false idols of the heart.
— Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles
Your team will be either a major problem or blessing for you
— sundayadelaja
Godliness is the foundation of blessing.
— Sunday Adelaja
Every blessing is a challenge to work.
— Sunday Adelaja
Train yourself by blessing those who treat you badly and you will take on the nature of God.
— Sunday Adelaja
God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.
— Peter Marshall
If we spend more time praising and thanking God for His daily benefits and blessing and all the good things He bestows, there wouldn't be time to blame, complain. cry and moan over the bad things.
— Pazaria Smith
God wants every member of the Body of Christ to be a blessing one to another; that’s why, everyone has to be involved in a ministry.
— Sunday Adelaja
Now, we struggle, brothers and sisters, and we strive. We have our trials and our tribulations but we are blessed. We go to bed, praise Jesus, and we rise again in the morning. And if that's not a blessing, I don't know what is.
— Ayana Mathis, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
God always protects what He considers to be a blessing for a person.
— Sunday Adelaja
God released his blessings upon us for us to do what He is charging us to do.
— Sunday Adelaja
If wealth is a blessing from God, then salvation was designed for the wealthy. Money can never please your soul.
— Felix Wantang, Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2: Astounding Biblical Mysteries Revealed in His Own Words Like Never Before in Human History
Always acknowledge your daily blessings with a grateful heart, but never dare to be content with them. Your true potential in life is limitless.
Beauty is a blessing not a hindrance.
— Kishore Bansal
It’s been said of me that I know how to love well, if any person alive can possess such knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us.It is all such a blessing—in the beginning, and the end, and the during.
— David Levithan, Marly's Ghost
The promises you speak over your children can take on the weight of destiny.
— Neil Kennedy, Speaking The Father's Blessing: 52 Blessings and 365 Promises To Speak Over Your Children
Let the Moon and the Stars pour their healing light on you...
— Irish Blessing
...see the blessing and beauty that you are.
— Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
(Excerpt from Psalm 20 reflection)A BlessingMay the Lord make himself real when you need Him mostMay the power of his name protect youMay he send help from his legions on earthAnd in the heavensMay he remember all your giftsAnd reward your offeringsMay he make your wildest dreams come true,Your plans successfulMay we shout with joy over your accomplishments,Singing praises to our GodMay God answer all your prayers
— Carol Shelton Moye, Psalms in the Key of My life
How could she understand it then——that one of her greatest blessings would come only through her greatest wound?
— Cathy LaGrow, The Waiting: The True Story of a Lost Child, a Lifetime of Longing, and a Miracle for a Mother Who Never Gave Up
I believe in the power of giving.The more you give, the more you get. It is a supernatural cycle.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The most important choices we make in life are not the dramatic turning points such as a change of career, the person we marry, the country we emigrate to. The most important choices are the thoughts and feelings we choose to entertain, moment after moment, day after day. They shape our lives more surely than any outward circumstance. So why not opt for an experience of blessing – of blessing life moment after moment? After all, each moment is the repository of infinite possibilities, ever renewed.Pierre Pradervand, The Gentle Art of Blessing
— Pierre Pradervand
On awakening, bless the day, for it is already full of unseen good which your blessing will call forth; for to bless is to acknowledge the unlimited good that is embedded in the very texture of the universe and awaiting each and all.To bless is to acknowledge the omnipresent, universal beauty, hidden to material eyes. It is to activate the law of attraction which for the furthest reaches of the universe will bring into your life exactly what you need to experience and enjoy.
— Pierre Pradervand
You is blessin’ folks with your dollars and service, but a dollar bill and plate of food ain’t changin’ a life. That takes love.
— Denver Moore
I have being saved by the grace of God.I am a child of God.The Lord's great favour and mighty power is upon me.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Rain is a blessing if it gives its place to Sun after a fair while
—  Sun is a blessing if it gives its place to rain after a fair while!
May the light of your soul guide you; May the light of your soul bless the work you do with the secret love and warmth of your heart; May you see in what you do the beauty of your own soul; May the sacredness of your work bring healing, light and renewal to those who work with you and to those who see and receive your work; May your work never weary you; May it release within you wellsprings of refreshment, inspiration and excitement; May you be present in what you do. May you never become lost in the bland absences; May the day never burden; May dawn find you awake and alert, approaching your new day with dreams, possibilities and promises; May evening find you gracious and fulfilled; May you go into the night blessed, sheltered and protected; May your soul calm, console and renew you.
— John O'Donohue
Dear Little Children, don't ever give up on your dreams.
— Heather Wolf, Kipnuk the Talking Dog
You don’t need to understand. You need only to obey and then reap the blessings of that obedience.
— Jim George
Lust is the blessing of the fruit of the womb.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds
If you do a good deed to reap the reward of blessings, wouldn't you be performing a selfish act?
— Kamil Ali, Profound Vers-A-Tales
You were the only blessing I think, I didn't deserve at first place.
— deepakgogna
You talk as if Bea were a trophy.''No, as if she were a blessing,' Fermin corrected.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
But how could anyone be grateful for what they have if they didn’t know what it was like not to have what they need?
— Josephine Angelini, Goddess
Bless you. Be careful. Anyone intending to meddle with words needs such blessing, such warning.
— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Use your gifts well and you will discover others, among them a gift that is uniquely you. See these noble gifts in other people. Share the truth and be ready for the miracle to unfold
— Charlene Costanzo, The Twelve Gifts of Birth
The tenth gift is Wisdom. Guiding your way, wisdom will lead you through knowledge to understanding. May you hear its soft voice.
— Charlene Costanzo, The Twelve Gifts of Birth
The sixth gift is Joy. May it keep your heart open and filled with light.
— Charlene Costanzo, The Twelve Gifts of Birth
The seventh gift is Talent. May you discover your own special abilities and contribute them toward a better world.
— Charlene Costanzo, The Twelve Gifts of Birth
The fifth gift is Hope. Through each passage and season, may you trust the goodness of life.
— Charlene Costanzo, The Twelve Gifts of Birth
The eleventh gift is Love. It will grow each time you give it away.
— Charlene Costanzo, The Twelve Gifts of Birth
The second gift is Beauty. May your deeds reflect its depth.
— Charlene Costanzo, The Twelve Gifts of Birth
Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
— John Ortberg, Faith and Doubt
Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin. ... We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
The experiences of men who walked with God in olden times agree to teach that the Lord cannot fully bless the a man until He has first conquered him. The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.
— A.W. Tozer, The Divine Conquest
The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle, but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife that you may learn to bear these troubles. Those who have no love for children are... unworthy of being called men or women; for they despise the blessing of God, the creator and author of marriage.
— Martin Luther
I am blessed. I can bless.
— Ann Voskamp
Swinburne, by the way, when a very young man, had gone to Walter Savage Landor, then a very old man, and been given the poet’s blessing he asked for; and Landor when a child had been patted on the head by Dr Samuel Johnson; and Johnson when a child had been taken to London to be touched by Queen Anne for scrofula, the King’s evil; and Queen Anne when a child...
— Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That
In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.
— Edna O'Brien, A Fanatic Heart
If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
— Sigmund Freud
In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
— Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer
I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
— Albert Camus, The Plague
This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions.. the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.
— Stephenie Meyer, The Host
A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will--over and over.
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
— Rabindranath Tagore
She was not one for emptying her face of expression. 
— J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
Anything that feels good couldn't possibly be bad.
— Angelina Jolie
Emotions is evil. People who make me feel are worse. I take comfort in the stone inside of me. If I don't feel, I don't hurt.
— Katie McGarry, Dare You To
My life is like an autumn leafI lie around unclaimed.The breeze blows me around,To be trampled under the feet of men.Natures cruel feast has bestowed me with pain,Pain of being a part,Just a part of someone.Pain of departing,Departing from that one.Pick me up like a rose,And hold me to your heart.Keep me there till he does not come.And when he comes do a good deed,Dig the earth below,And bury me deepFor I don't want to lie around,Unclaimed, unloved.
— Amit Abraham
Love is a decision - not an emotion!
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Love, in short is the most dangerous emotion human can experience
— V.C. Andrews, Daughter of Darkness
It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren’t ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal. 
— Ann Brashares, The Last Summer
I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I'm soaked to the skin with emotion.
— Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
...your mind was seizing on something to try to make sense of the emotion... Can you see the power emotion has to distort our outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day?
— Brandon Mull, Rise of the Evening Star
There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.
— Louise Erdrich, Tales of Burning Love
Can I touch you?”His lashes closed, resting on the tops of his tanned, sculpted cheeks as his smile grew broad. “You don’t have to ask.” I reached out immediately but paused within inches of contact. He must’ve sensed my hesitation because he reopened his eyes. “What’s wrong?”I swallowed, utterly overwhelmed. “I don’t know where to start.”Mason’s gaze warmed . He wrapped strong warm fingers around my wrist and drew my palm forward, leading me where he wanted my hand to follow. When he set it on the center of his chest, right over his heart and pressed my flesh to his as if fingerprinting my soul to his. I blinked back gratified tears.“Start here. No one’s ever touched me here before.
— Linda Kage, Price of a Kiss
Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.
— Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding
Our tears are precious, necessary, and part of what make us such endearing creatures.
— David Richo, The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them
For how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior. 
— Martin Luther
Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
If she had hurt me, I could have forgiven her without even having to think about it; but I couldn't forgive her for being hurt.
— Tana French, In the Woods
I never thought meeting you would be this boring. I thought we'd put our Italian emotion into gear and scream the place down. I never expected indifference.
— Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi
He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer- excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained observer to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes
We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.
— T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Emotions make us human. Denying them makes us beasts.
— Victoria Klein
There's no such thing as emotion.It's only body chemistry in action.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about ecstasy. What is the nature of these emotions? The problem with photography is that it only deals with appearances.
— Duane Michals
A concrete love is a mass of emotion formed into a compound mixture of affection, care, desire and expectation.
— Munia Khan
She begins to feel that the reality show is the university she never attended. Vicarious reality. Emotion without a value-added tax. Movement without danger. Alma finds her reality. She no longer has a reason to put herself at risk and go out into the hostile, degrading world.
— Carlos Fuentes, Todas las familias felices
In the next place, wonderful as it seems in a sexual world, the Martians were absolutely without sex, and therefore without any of the tumultuous emotions that arise...
— H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
i must feel this emotionwith my whole beingand as it sweeps me off my feetenjoy the sensation of fallingfalling endlessly into the armsof no lover
— Nirmala, Gifts with No Giver: A Love Affair with Truth
There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as their final expression, the purpose of all the things she loved on earth... To find a consciousness like her own, who would be the meaning of her world, as she would be of his... No, not Francisco d'Anconia, not Hank Rearden, not any man she had ever met or admired... A man who existed only in her knowledge of her capacity for an emotion she had never felt, but would have given her life to experience.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Emotion is what counts: it is more valuable than anything.
— Samael Aun Weor
Some people call me sick and twisted. I feel that I'm neither
—  I am instead a Romantic.
Conversation, to take another example, is one of the common pleasures of life, but not all conversation is pleasurable. The stutterer finds talking painful, and the listener is equally pained. Persons who are inhibited in expressing feeling are not good conversationalists. Nothing is more boring than to listen to a person talk in a monotone without feeling. We enjoy a conversation when there is a communication of feeling. We have pleasure in expressing our feelings, and we respond pleasurably to another person's expression of feeling. The voice, like the body, is a medium through which feeling flows, and when this flow occurs in an easy and rhythmic manner, it is a pleasure both to the speaker and listener.
— Alexander Lowen, Pleasure
Is lawlessness to be permitted, simply because it is effected with a certain style? Jane, Jane! Where are your finer sensibilities? All o'erthrown, by a man with a golden tongue and a mocking glance?
— Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Man of the Cloth
I wish I could have lived just one day when the world was new. I wish—I wish I could have reaped just one single, solitary, big Emotion before the world had caught it and—appraised it—and taxed it—and licensed it—and staled it!
— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, The Indiscreet Letter
It was almost enough to make me feel emotion.
— Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter
I might have been made of metal once, but not anymore. Like Pinocchio, I'd turned into a real girl. So far it sucked. But there was nothing I could do about it.
— Natalie Standiford, How to Say Goodbye in Robot
One of the best exercises in meekness we can perform is when the subject Is in ourselves. We must not fret over our own imperfections. Although reason requires that we must be displeased and sorry whenever we commit a fault we must refrain from bitter, gloomy,spiteful, and emotional displeasure. Many people are greatly at fault in this way. When overcome by anger they become angry at being angry, disturbed at being disturbed and vexed at being vexed. By such means they keep their hearts drenched and steeped in passion.
— Francis de Sales
States of the atmosphere pass into us as water through the meshes of a sieve, and storms occur in us before they break upon the world without, creating restless sensations. ("Absolute Evil")
— Julian Hawthorne, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
Dandies, who – as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe, that astonishment can ever be a proper feeling for the human mind.
— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, The Crimson Curtain
I stand in the dark, start to unbutton. Then I hear something inside my body. I've broken, something has cracked, that must be it. Noise is coming up, coming out, of the broken place, in my face. Without warning: I wasn't thinking about here or there or anywhere. If I let the noise get out into the air it will be laughter, too loud, too much of it, someone is bound to hear.
— Margaret Atwood
I can't promise to becalm, dignified,and indifferent, like a rock by the sea...If my heart's going to break, let it break from anger,grief,or
— Nâzım Hikmet, Poems of Nazım Hikmet
We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate. From images that are full, the spirit plunges on to others that suddenly must be filled; there are no lakes till eternity. Here, falling is best. To fall from the mastered emotion into the guessed-at, and onward.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Romanticism is the expression of man’s urge to rise above reason and common sense, just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion.
— Charles Yost
Never make decisions when you are super angry or super excited. When the emotional center is at the Peak the logical awareness is at the bottom!!!
— Harrish Sairaman
Extreme in hating and in loving; Abhorring all whom I dislike, Adoring who my fancy strike;In forming judgements never long,And for the most part judging wrong;
— Matthew Lewis, The Monk
A slow nature such as Maurice's appears insensitive, for it needs time even to feel. Its instinct is to assume that nothing either for good or evil has happened, and to resist the invader. Once gripped, it feels acutely, and its sensations in love are particularly profound. Given time, it can know and impart ecstasy; given time, it can sink to the heart of Hell.
— E.M. Forster, Maurice
Then he commandeered the floor, shooting back and forth like some hot Latin lover. When he finished, everyone applauded. He could have stayed in that moment forever.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Don't show emotion." Kurt Löwe gave his son a rough shake, "Don't you ever show emotion. Tears are weakness. And I won't have any son of mine being weak. You're going to stand here until you top crying.
— Ryan Graudin, Blood for Blood
Content, I am not interested in that at all. I don't give a damn what the film is about. I am more interested in how to handle the material so as to create an emotion in the audience. I find too many people are interested in the content. If you were painting a still life of some apples on a plate, it's like you'd be worrying whether the apples were sweet or sour. Who cares?
— Alfred Hitchcock
The spiritual life to me has always meant just one thing: emotion. Emotion is the poetry of life.
— Marty Rubin
Many strong emotions are actually intricate tapestries woven of various strands.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Tell me what's emotion… and what's like… both words what do they mean?
— Deyth Banger
To be vulnerable to negative emotion is to lack a personal commitment to kingdom principles
— Sunday Adelaja
You tug and strain like a young horse when it's first tied up at the stake, whenever you are tied by your heartstrings.
— Sigrid Undset, The Wife
We have no heart at seventeen. We think we do; we think we have been cursed with a holy, bloated thing that twitches at the name we adore, but it is not a heart because though it will forfeit anything in the world-the mind, the body, the future, even the last lonely hour it has-it will not sacrifice itself.
— Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli
God is basically an emotion, nothing less nothing more.
— Deyth Banger
Emotions rage inside me, something like a world war twisting inside my stomach and poking holes in my lungs. I can't pick apart reality from fantasy - does that mean insanity isn't far from my reach?
— K. Weikel, The Blood Room
Weather is cyclical. It’s falling and then rising. It’s movement. Swaying, drifting, and swirling. It’s power. Gravity, evaporation, and erosion. It’s a potpourri of human emotion. Happiness, sadness, elation, and disappointment.
— Alex Z. Moores, Living in Water
its amazing thought of love with a specific person ,how can creates a storm to touch .
— litymunshi
In love everything changes, and continues changing all the time. There is no stillness, no stopped clock of the heart in which the moment of happiness holds forever, but only the constant whirring forward motion of desire and need, rising and falling, falling and rising, full of doubts then certainties that moment by moment change and become doubts again.
— Niall Williams, Four Letters of Love
Whether it's something that happened twenty years ago or only yesterday I must start out with an emotion, one that's close to me and that I can understand.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Short Autobiography
Emotion is the unseen transported on the unseen effecting everything".
— Mary-Ellen Peters
Outrage alternated with a sweaty fear he had never before felt. Something, it seemed to him was being drained from him, leaving the body feeling like a very dry sponge, very light, completely at the mercy of sly toying gusts of wind.
— Ayi Kwei Armah, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration. All those emotions — spanning from intense love, intense frustration, jealousy, confusion, all of that — in my mind, all those emotions are red. You know, there’s nothing in between. There’s nothing beige about any of those feelings, it all comes back to me, and it’s red.
— Taylor Swift
... Don't feel bad about crying. Ever.
— James Dashner, The Maze Runner
And this love between Henry and Fora . . . at first, it was a small, uncertain thing, like the glow of the morning sunos the horizon. And then it was its own wild animal, bucking against the world and anything that threatened it, so hot it could burn and sometimes did. And then it was quiet, as quiet as a snowfall, covering everything, certain of its place, even as it was certain it could not last forever.
— Martha Brockenbrough, The Game of Love and Death
The wisdom of that moment of pure emotion resonates with me still: that the dearest and most enduring moments of our lives are sometimes the quietest ones.
— Christine Montross
Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal.
— Jeff Lindsay
Jealousy is a normal human emotion. When people act on that emotion, they then become a hater.
— Ron Baratono
Love, one way or the other, in whatever form, matters every moment in life.
— Shampa Sharma
What was it St. Augustine said? "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
He forced himself into good spirits.
— H.W. Brands
I could impart excitement, but not urgency. – Francis Chen
— David Platt, Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.
One’s first love is the most transformative and least replicable experience. I could love someone else, but it would be its own unfathomable emotion. It would not be this precious, first, spring love. If I cannot love her fully, it will be a love that corrodes within me.
— Thomm Quackenbush, A Creature Was Stirring
It is arrogant to believe that you know what is true for you. Surely you know in your own life with you that you cannot be trusted.
— Matt      Chandler
No emotion was supposed to cross the great divide of class. Affection could erase all hierarchy; in this was the danger, and the delight.
— Damon Galgut, Arctic Summer
I am a tourist of the emotions, visiting only the most well-worn spots. It is romantic, that is, a distortion, to imagine whole lives from the barest observation.
— Jean Thompson
Amusement and annoyance are, perhaps, both forms of denial.
— Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
We come into this world crying and calling, wailing and singing; and for the first months of our life all our needs and instincts, our dissatisfactions and discoveries are immediately vocalized without apology and without censor.
— Paul Newham
There's only a casual relationship between human behavior and logic.
— Philip Houston, Spy the Lie: Three Former CIA Officers Reveal Their Secrets to Uncloaking Deception
Cross and resurrection are the South and North polls, true gospel polarities, of a single, undivided, salvation world. Remove either Paul and you've got salvation.
— Eugene H. Peterson, Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
If you feel it right now, on the Internet, you can tell them right now; you don't have to wait for anything.
— Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Love can crystallize things. When love is in the air, distressing rain can become a wonderful avalanche of shimmering diamonds. Raindrops are transformed into a flood of sparkling crystal pearls. The power of love can convert rain into a multitude of glittering prisms. The mental seduction of love and a boundless illusion, inflamed by a profound uprising emotion, can change any ordinary incident into a radiant, luminous voyage. ( "Crystallization under an umbrella" )
— Erik Pevernagie
Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light.
— Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
We know not which most to wonder at, the faithfulness of God or the unbelief of His people. He keeps His promise a thousand times, and yet the next trial makes us doubt Him. He never faileth; He is never a dry well; He is never as a setting sun, a passing meteor, or a melting vapour; and yet we are as continually vexed with anxieties, molested with suspicions, and disturbed with fears, as if our God were the mirage of the desert.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
The author observes that the friendship of John Hay and Charles Francis Adams benefited from a physical distance that required correspondence, meaning that feelings only implied in person had to be explicitly expressed.
— John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
The age can be impressed. Anything will be accepted by men if you will but preach it with tremendous enthusiasm, emotion, persuasionnergy and living earnestness.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
I place a mask on everyday showing I'm alright but am I?
— Joyce Guo
No one can make us feel anything. We always have the authority over how we choose to feel about something. Never give anyone that much power over yourself.
— Renee Cefalu
Keep testing your conviction from time to time, with your intellect as well as emotions to ensure you are on the right path!
— Anuranjita Kumar, Can I have it all?
Writing is mostly a case of mood management. The emotion you have is not absolute, it is temporary. It may be useful, but it is not the truth. It is not you.
— Anne Enright
Introverts just just don't buzz as easily.
— Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
He had won, easily. This was something else he could do, and do well, and his Dad had been there to witness his success.
— Michael Braccia
She wasn't being methodological. She was being autobiographical.
— Stephen L. Carter
I felt a new wave of irritation, squelched it as I kicked into scientist mode. First rule: block mind-set. Don’t suspect, don’t fear, don’t hope for any outcome. Observe, weigh, measure, and record.Second rule: block emotion. Leave sorrow, pity, and outrage for later. Anger or grief can lead to error and misjudgment. Mistakes do your victim no good.
— Kathy Reichs, Bones of  the Lost
I didn't find out until I became a father. You don't just LOVE your children. You FALL in love with them.
— Frasier Crane
Love is not even an emotion so don't get emotional over it.
— Amit Abraham
I’m a feeler. I feel everything deep within my core. Even when I don’t want to. I don’t know where my emotions stop and my empathy begins. I feel from the tips of my toes to the follicles of my head. I feel with every fiber, every molecule, every tissue, marrow, muscle, and bone in my body. I feel.
— A.J. Compton, The Counting-Downers
The way to live well is to feel intensely.
— Marty Rubin
Yes, let her sleepShe can’t figure out now,not you, don’t speak to herthat she doesn’t feel this heart, anymore.Wind, you too, She can’t figure out nowshe sleeps, sleeps and doesn’t want this heartFour winds and I’m alone, my notes without lucklet her still sleeplet to die as soon as possiblethis soul without love,not you, don’t give itTime pass and don't speaktime pass and don’t tell her
— White wind
Pique or policy. We would never know.
— Roger Kahn, Good Enough to Dream
Rosy lifted her arm, tried to say something, then pointed at the cafe, held her head, covered her mouth and—humiliation of humiliations—she began to cry. Right there in the street. “I’m so confused,” she said but it came out as a great honking wail.“Come here, you silly girl,” Phyllis said.The woman put her arms around Rosy, patted her back, and for the first time in forever, Rosy allowed herself to just cry.A young mother with twins in a pram passed them. The children’s eyes tracked Rosy for a second before their faces crumpled and they started to cry too.“I’m sorry,” Rosy said, and flapped her arms. “I’m sorry.
— R.G. Manse, Screw Friendship
Certain emotions bridge the years and link unlikely places.
— V.S. Naipaul
I don't know notes or octaves or the difference between sharp and flat, but I know music makes everything more.
— Sarah Tomp, My Best Everything
When you know someone behind you, you can change the world, when you know someone behind her, the world will change you.
— Nutan Bajracharya
The thing about pain, whether physical or emotional, is there's no running away. You can't escape it and you can't hide from it. Not by ignoring it, not by drugging it, not by doing a swan dive into a bottle. Sooner or later you'll have to take a breath, let the pain rush in and get to the other side like your life depends on it. Because it does.
— Natasha Boyd, Forever, Jack
The mind has the ability to trick the body into believing it is happy and that all is well - the heart however, feels it. And as the saying goes, 'The heart wants what the heart wants'. Anything else just wouldn't do...
— Charles R. Mackriel
Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distance and coolness are most required. I am tempted to howl in rage. It is not my place to do so. My job is to try to dissect the event, place it in context and try to understand what has happened and why. From that, after the rage cools, plans for action can be made. Rage has its place, but actions must be taken with discipline and thought.
— George Friedman
She knew that each emotion came and went, knew that she could cope with whatever life threw at her.
— Gemma Malley, The Legacy
Notice that “love thy neighbor” - a wildly popular piece of wisdom found in the Bible - is a command. Jesus is commanding us to love. Now, Jesus understood that emotions and feelings cannot be commanded; they cannot be controlled. He must be saying that love isn’t the way you feel about someone, it’s the way your treat someone. Love isn’t something that happens to you, it’s something that you make happen. It’s a choice.
— Cole Ryan, Dating: I Think We've Missed The Point
In intertwining sentimentality, healing, narcissism, and authority, modern evangelicals give authority to those emotions themselves...The sentimental becomes evidence and authority in a world in which most evangelicals have given up intellectual pursuits and concerns over doctrine. Essentially, sentimentality represents an abandonment of theology and critical introspection in popular evangelicalism. Instead of crafting intellectual responses to the challenges to evangelicalism, popular evangelicals appeal to the power of feeling as an authority to counteract science and criticism of the Bible. They offer their audiences the opportunity to FEEL that evangelicalism is right rather than asking them to accept the veracity of doctrinal positions of evangelicalism.
— Todd M. Brenneman, Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism
With every try, I Know I am closer!
— Samiha Zaidi
Come, sir, come,I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love.Look, here I have you, thus I let you go,And give you to the gods.
— William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are acknowledged as emotions. (p69)
— Edward de Bono, Six Thinking Hats Revised Edition
The intensest feeling of the beauty of a cloud lighted by the setting sun, is no hindrance to my knowing that the cloud is a vapour of water, subject to all the laws of vapours in a state of suspension; and I am just as likely to allow for, and act on, these physical laws whenever there is occasion to do so, as if I had been incapable of perceiving any distinction between beauty and ugliness.
— John Stuart Mill
Now bound by the sudden rush of emotion that reverberates through me as I remain intent on awakening Nadia, I push my fingertips upward over her neck as if pushing a coin from the edge of heaven, waiting to catch where it falls as if I were in all places at once. I then gently attack her pressure points from every side, leaving Nadia completely vulnerable to my wanting her. Nadia now hastens my love as I reveal to her my gentle ways that excite and nourish her every capacity in all mind, body, and soul. I take to her exaggerated lines that press firmly against me with a wet friction that builds between the cold and the heat, tasting and smelling her sweet body that warms my heart to its core. I allow my mind to speak through my gaze as I look into Nadia’s rich brunneous eyes where hints of sable shimmer across the reflection that mirrors her heart.
— Luccini Shurod, The Painter
Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama.
— Donald Miller, Searching for God Knows What
We are betrayed by our maps of salience. They plot our narratives, identify our enemies and then coat them in distorting layer of loathing and dread. We feel that hunch - withdraw - and then conduct a post factum search for evidence that justifies it. We are motivated to fight our foes because we are emotional about them, but emotion is the territorial scent-mark of irrationality.
— Will Storr
Emotional security is just as important as financial security.
— P.K. Shaw
He looked at her and could see she was trembling, her face even paler than usual and her eyes wide and vulnerable. His heart went out to her and he reached towards her, gathering her much smaller hand into his.“It’s OK Rosa. Whatever you have to say to me, it’s OK. Don’t be afraid – nothing will come between us now.
— Emily Arden, Lover by Moonlight: Deception: Book One
Another tear appeared and then another, trailing silently down her cheeks. This was so much harder than she’d thought it would be. She was usually so articulate, yet at the moment her brain seemed to have turned to mush.He turned his head to kiss the tears from her cheek, and it was as though his act of tenderness finally unleashed the truth that was struggling to emerge.
— Emily Arden, Lover by Moonlight: Deception: Book One
Freedom without structure is its own slavery.
— David Brooks
Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.
— Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
Forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of human rage, with these out hells and our heavens, so few inches apart, we must be awfully small, and not as strong as we think we are.
— Rich Mullins
Our lips now conjoin like the glittery coils of a wet snake dancing in the amazon. Kissing Nadia sends me into a savoring affair for that which is most delectable, always tasting the delicate layers that exist in her myriad of emotion. Always, Nadia’s opulent lips gratify and subdue by easing my sensitivity as she drags her fingers down my stomach like a tree scattering its roots. I now brush my lips over Nadia’s, dipping into her mouth like a brush that falls into a bucket of paint, osculating under this euphoric form of affection.
— Luccini Shurod, The Painter
Sometimes in the great soundtrack of our lives there are no words, there are only emotions; I believe this is why God gave us classical music.
— Anonymous
Me: "All right, but you said we had to put emotion into our art. I don't know what that means. I don't know what I'm supposed to feel.
— Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
What happened to you? When did you stop believing in yourself? In your gift? In what you deserve?
— Jennifer Probst, Searching for Someday
Haiku does not express emotion from the inside out by displaying the mind of a character. Haiku builds the emotional thrust, makes the artistic statement from the outside in, from the physical world to the mind of the reader.
— Harley King, Mother, Don't Lock Me In That Closet!
My personal philosophy is that you do art to experience emotion that you don't have the luxury of experiencing in real life.
— Kinan Azmeh
Growing up, coming to terms with, and living through the complications of Diabetes.
— Paul Cathcart, Persona Non Grata With Diabetes
Safety was one thing, but what he really wanted was to be electrified, to be wounded, to be cast into the wilderness, to be released, to be exalted, and most especially to be surrounded by the drowning noise and ebullience and casual presence of friends calling out his name, demanding his presence.
— Carol Shields, Larry's Party
Advertisers as well as political leaders long ago found that it is easier to appeal to the people through the heart than through the mind. Programs built with an emotional people are sure to draw the largest audiences and the biggest response. Workers in the field of educational radio are loath to acknowledge this truism, maintaining that certain programs must be built to appeal to the intellect. Of course, they are right, but that is the minority appeal.
— Judith C. Waller, Radio: The Fifth Estate