“I think because I have quite a normal family and I'm bored with how normal my family is. I want to mess stuff up a bit. I chose the messed up characters because I find that that's acting. I want to explore emotions that you otherwise wouldn't be able to explore.” WantCharacterAbleStuffBitsActingEmotionNormalMy FamilyMessBoredMessed UpNormal Family Author:Chloe Grace Moretz
“Ressentiment is a self-poisoning of the mind which has quite definite causes and consequences. It is a lasting mental attitude, caused by the systematic repression of certain emotions and affects which, as such are normal components of human nature. Their repression leads to the constant tendency to indulge in certain kinds of value delusions and corresponding value judgments. The emotions and affects primarily concerned are revenge, hatred, malice, envy, the impulse to detract, and spite.” MindHumansKindSelfCertainValuesCausesEmotionAttitudeHuman NatureNormalJudgmentConsequenceConcernedHatredConstantRevengeEnvyTendenciesImpulseSpiteDelusionLastingDefiniteComponentsIndulgeMaliceRepressionSystematicIndulge InPoisoningMental AttitudeCorresponding Book:On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings Source: On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings
“I think for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change.” ThinkingHumansForceEmotionAcceptingNormalHuman Emotions Author:Koren Zailckas
“A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.” TogetherLyingLanguageEmotionRecordsNormalMood Book:Deep Play Source: Deep Play
“By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens service of the collective ego. One can go so far as to say that on this planet "normal" equals insane. What is it that lies at the root of this insanity? Complete identification with thought and emotion, that is to say, ego.” HumansLyingEmotionGreaterViolencePlanetsCitizensEgoNormalRootsCriminalsInsaneInsanityCollectivesRespectableIdentificationDerangedThoughts And Emotions Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.” HumansDoeCharacterFeelingsLostChanceEmotionPathSeaFineTypeNormalFruitDeedsPracticalsResolveResolutionDreamerConcreteSensibilityManlyHinderDischarge Book:The Principles of Psychology Source: The Principles of Psychology
“Fear is a normal human emotion. It is not in itself a killer. We can learn to be aware when fear grips us, and can train to operate through and in spite of our fear. If, on the other hand, we don't understand that fear is normal and has to be controlled and overcome, it will paralyze us and stop us in our tracks. We will no longer think clearly or analyze rationally. We prepare for it and control it; we never let it control us. It if does, we cannot lead.” IfsThinkingHumansDoeHandsEmotionNormalOvercomingTrainTrackSpiteControlledKillersHuman Emotions Author:Colin Powell
“Reality... includes a perceiver, who has memories, thoughts, desires, emotions - [which] a normal camera tends to omit.” RealityDesireMemoriesEmotionNormalCameras Author:Barbara Ess