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“Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.”

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Author:Yann Martel

“Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.”

Love Is Emotion Fleeting Small Parts

Author:Nellie McKay

“As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.”

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Book:The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Movie Tie-in) (Movie Tie-in Editions)

Source: The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Movie Tie-in) (Movie Tie-in Editions)

“Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts.”

Thinking Feels Persons Form Purpose Certain Enjoy Pleasure Emotion Consciousness Loneliness Tongue Fleeting Like Love

Author:Sam Harris

“Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“More and more, I have come to realize how thoughts and concepts are all that block us from always being . . . in the absolute. . . . When the view is there, thoughts are seen for what they truly are: fleeting and transparent, and only relative. . . . You do not cling to thoughts and emotions or reject them, but welcome them all within the vast embrace of Rigpa.”

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Author:Sogyal Rinpoche

“My all-time favorite topic in positive psychology is the study of positive emotions. I'm fascinated by how pleasant experiences, which can be so subtle and fleeting, can add up over time to change who we become. I'm especially excited these days about investigating how positive emotions change the very ways that our cells form and function to keep us healthy.”