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“Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion.”

Mind Desire Emotion Meditation Capacity Mercy Wave

Author:Geneen Roth

“In my experience of women, women have a greater capacity. Maybe women, even very pragmatic ones, are less guarded about showing emotions.”

Emotion Greater Capacity Men Women Pragmatic Guarded

Author:David Bezmozgis

“A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.”

Soul States Three Emotion Virtue Capacity Disposition Three Things

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“It's not leadership by position that allows people to succeed; it's the capacity to influence the thoughts, the feelings, the emotions, and the actions of other human beings.”

People Humans Feelings Action Human Beings Emotion Influence Position Succeed Capacity

Author:Tony Robbins

“In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery.”

Source: The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction

“Images break with a small ping, their destruction is as wonderful as their being, they are essentially instruments of torture exploding through the individual's calloused capacity to feel undifferentiated emotions full of longing and dissatisfaction and monumentality.”

Feels Individual Emotion Break Wonderful Capacity Destruction Instruments Longing Torture Dissatisfaction Exploding Ping

Book:The Book of Daniel: A Novel

Source: The Book of Daniel: A Novel

“Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it.”

Mind Values Emotion Emotional Capacity Empty Fuel Inherent Motor

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Because rage and violence are human emotions and drives and capacities that inhabit us all. SEE CARL JUNG. Or that hipster Joseph Campbell. Because we all take archetypal journeys in a million ways - literal, symbolic, you name it - that figure, disfigure, and refigure violence.”

Way Humans Names Emotion Millions Violence Journey Figures Capacity Rage Symbolic Literal Hipster Human Emotions Jung

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“When we read a literary work (or, in some instances, listen to music) our imagination is stimulated, we feel various emotions, and we arrive at new judgments. These attitudes are brought into relation with many others, including our standing tendencies to think and feel in particular ways, and we try to fit our psychological capacities and responses together.”