“A life is long, and we are many people, variously, in our guises, in our situations, but some part of us is the same, and what I felt as a boy I find myself able to feel now -- a sad and powerful longing for a future that did not ever come, with all its attendant worries and fears.”
“You drive that hate of love from one life to the next with no recourse, regret, nor redemption of your soul.”
“Gefühle", murmelte ich. "Sind wie kleine Risse im Boden. Einige von ihnen sind klein - so klein, dass man sie nicht sieht und somit auch überhaupt nicht bemerkt. Andere Risse sind aber groß genug, um uns mit Haut und Haar zu verschlingen.”
Source: JAXX: And so the adventure begins
“When we are vulnerable, I believe we are our truest selves. Emotion is all about vulnerability, and that is why, in the cheesiest sense, it is so beautiful.”
Source: The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me
“Emotion links our internal and external worlds. To be aware of what we feel can open us to questions we would rather ignore. For many of us, that is precisely why it is easier not to feel. But a failure to feel leaves us barren and distant from God and others.”
Source: The Cry of the Soul: How Our Emotions Reveal Our Deepest Questions about God
“She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man’s land between life and death, sleeping and waking.”
Source: The Lady of the House of Love
“James shows his feelings so liberally that they come at a discount, and their value diminishes. When he says he loves me, usually in a threatening way, the statement always seems to beg for reciprocation. I guess he cries wolf. More or less sobs it. One could argue that everything James says is merely the word “wolf” in one language or another.”
Source: Notes from the Fog: Stories
“Her emotions had been tossed like a bark in a tempest the past few days.”
Source: A Winter's Knight
“Pushing aside emotions only makes them stronger.”
Source: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“We bear the pain that is cutting inside. We touch the grief, we nurture it, we embrace it, until it shows us a way, a different way. This is how love is born, in an injured soul.
……...Jayita Bhattacharjee”
Source: Dewdrops of Compassion: A Book That Sheds Light of Soul in the Flow of Spiritual Ecstasy