“And for this drama of life,
Neither make-up, nor false emotions
Suffice.
What is necessary
Is simply being truthful
To your own self.”
Source: Garden of Fragility
“And he said...
...life is a ricer of emotional issues where one can float, drown or swim.”
“And he said...
...sheets will billow in the winds of illtreat.”
“Give me liberty or give me death."
[From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in William Wirt's Life and Character of Patrick Henry.]”
Source: Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death
“Anger is a means to achieve a goal. When I first read this sentence, it hit me like a ton of bricks. But at the same time, I felt that it went hand-in-hand with an idea I've grown to realize about anger. I've recognized that it is an emotion that can be utilized and transmuted into alchemy.”
Source: Esotericism With an Unconventional Soul: Exploring Philosophy, Spirituality, Science, and Mysticism
“Yes, it's important to feel your way through life and to completely embrace these various emotions; including anger. But we cannot dismiss the underlying goal. So what do I mean by this? Well, exerting anger negatively is usually a cover-up for what's really happening deep down inside.”
Source: Esotericism With an Unconventional Soul: Exploring Philosophy, Spirituality, Science, and Mysticism
“You are the magician with alchemical powers and this comes with the ability to control, transmute, and maneuver elements. Basically what I'm saying is that you are the master over your anger, your life, the way you go about these goals with your emotions, and what you create with them.”
Source: Esotericism With an Unconventional Soul: Exploring Philosophy, Spirituality, Science, and Mysticism
“Where is your pain?
In my emotions.
I don't understand.
No one ever does.”
Source: Strange Planet
“There's something disarmingly, devastatingly self-confident about Jack. About the way he laid out all these facts without hesitating, as though owning his feelings is first and second nature. I study the glint of the lamp hitting his golden hair and wonder why this man would even bother thinking of me. He's figured out my entire game. I came to him empty-handed.”
Source: Love, Theoretically
“…we are our most prosocial concerning in-group morality when our rapid, implicit emotions and intuitions dominate, but are most prosocial concerning out-group morality when cognition holds sway.”
Source: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst