“Some conversations may exhaust your intellect, but certain silences can shatter you emotionally.”
“Most binds involve metaphors, emotions, feelings, human qualities. Thus, the binds mostly prompt us to be rational, push us to decide one way or another, to declare when something is wrong or good; this reflexive spark is generated by a bind. Reasoning is a secondary process, and exists only to reinforce the initial bind.”
Source: Gregory Bateson Variations: A View of Complex Ideas: Binds, Double Binds, Schismogenesis, Second- and Third-Order Cybernetics, René Girard, and More
“Understanding yourself starts with recognizing how past abuse has influenced your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Since your thoughts can shape your emotions, becoming aware of them is the first step toward effectively managing." those emotions.”
“Your powers, Arya." He spoke...
"You've felt them stirring, haven't you? The electrifying surge of energy that courses through you when danger is near. The uncanny ability to sense the emotions of others, even when they desperately try to conceal them.”
Source: Arya and the Guardians of Azhira
“In those moments,
sighs hung on immense dilemma.”
“It was some time before he could put Alfred, Georgia, Sixo, Schoolteacher, Halle, his brothers, Sethe, Mister, the taste of iron, the sight of butter, the smell of hickory, notebook paper, one by one, into the tobacco tin lodged in his chest. By the time he got to 124 nothing in this world could pry it open.”
Source: Beloved
“My love for you was like waves in the ocean, but you ignored me as if it was nothing to you. Even so, whenever you hear the sounds of waves, remember that my heart beats for you.”
Source: Blissful Soulmate
“In the silence between notes, love whispers its deepest secrets.”
Source: Beyond the Bouquet: A Symphony of Love in Fifty Movements
“Don't allow anyone without consciousness to convince you that having emotions and empathy is a failure. Don't sell your soul.”
“Instincts were everything.
Not emotions, mind you, he'd say. But instincts. If a man smiles and it makes you want to run, then by all means... run as fast and as far as your legs will take you.”
Source: Miss Sally's Unsuitable Soldier