“I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.” FeelsFoundEmotionCasesAccountsAssumingStrikesAweAffectedReverenceIndulgeTravellerJerusalemDevotional Book:Prose Writings of Bayard Taylor ... Source: Prose Writings of Bayard Taylor ...
“How much time, creative energy, and emotion do we expend resisting change because we assume growth must always be painful? Much personal growth is uncomfortable, but it's worse to thwart the ascent of your authenticity.” InspirationalEnergyGrowthEmotionCreativeAssumingPersonal GrowthPainfulAuthenticityUncomfortableResistingAscentCreative Energy Book:Simple Abundance Source: Simple Abundance
“There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbs all these incorporeal spirits, and the perfume of all these flowers.” WorldBodySpiritEmotionRichFlowerBearsHolySpringAngelAssumingSeedsLovelyFlyingInwardPerfumeLimbsNever Assume Author:Jean Paul