“Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it does so in silence, in your dreams, in your wordless moments. Good words enter you and become moods, become the quiet fabric of your being. Like music, like painting, literature too wants to transcend its primary condition and become something higher. Art wants to move into silence, into the emotional and spiritual conditions of the world. Statues become melodies, melodies become yearnings, yearnings become actions.” WorldWantDoeArtMomentsDreamActionSpiritualMovingLiteratureSilenceConditionsEmotionalPaintingHigherQuietHighestMoodPrimariesYour DreamsMelodyYearningFabricAspireStatuesGood Words Author:Ben Okri
“When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance with their higher instincts, sensibly and rationally. Also, anger is transient, whereas inspiration sometimes has a life-long effect.” PeopleLongSometimesInspirationEffectsEmotionalInspireHigherAngryInstinctEmotional IntelligenceLong LifeTransient Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“Emotional control is essential for attaining higher levels of mind. The thing that the teacher looks for in a student is the degree of self-control, not coldness that someone has.” MindLooksSelfLevelsTeacherStudentsEmotionalBuddhismHigherEssentialsDegreesBuddhistSelf ControlEtiquetteHigher LevelColdnessEmotional Control Author:Frederick Lenz
“Feelings take you into uncharted territory from time to time it's true, but you almost always benefit from the journey one way or the other. We tend to think of the rational as a higher order, but it is the emotional that marks our lives.” ThinkingWayFeelingsOrderOur LivesJourneyEmotionalHigherBenefitsMarkRationalOne WayTerritoryUnchartedUncharted Territory Book:Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others Source: Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others
“Of course, even the general designation 'religious' includes various basic ideas or convictions, for example, the indestructibility of the soul, the eternity of its existence, the existence of a higher being, etc. But all these ideas, regardless of how convincing they may be for the individual, are submitted to the critical examination of this individual and hence to a fluctuating affirmation or negation until emotional divination or knowledge assumes the binding force of apodictic faith.” MayIdeasSoulCoursesIndividualForceReligiousExistenceExampleEmotionalHigherEternityAssumingVariousConvictionCriticalEtcAffirmationConvincingExaminationBindingNegationDesignation Author:Adolf Hitler
“If you look at a farmer and his daily expenditure on existing energy services, it is much higher on an incremental delta basis. And then there is an emotional cost of not providing their kids with the right to educate. If you calculate these costs in economic terms and create a financing mechanism for them to buy it, the emotional delta cost is much higher compared to their household.” IfsLooksKidsEnergyTermEconomicEmotionalHigherCostBasesFarmersEducateMechanismHouseholdProvidingExpendituresFinancingDelta Author:Ramon Magsaysay
“I'm getting older, so how people face grave circumstances is of interest to me. And you meet a lot of people who are very courageous, and it doesn't reek of something funny to write about, but I always think that the higher the stakes, the bigger the laughs can be, and the more emotional the scenes can be.” PeopleThinkingWritingFacesInterestLaughingEmotionalHigherCircumstancesSceneBiggerGravesCourageousStakesGetting OldGetting Older Author:Judd Apatow
“This is a photograph, so it is as you see: there are no lies and no deceptions. One can detect here, elevated to an incomparably higher level, the same pathetic emotional appeal that lies concealed in every fake spiritualist photograph, every pornographic photograph; one comes to suspect that the strange, disturbing emotional appeal of the photographic art consists solely in that same repeated refrain: this is a true ghost... this is a photograph, so it is as you see: there are no lies, no deceptions.” ArtLyingLevelsEmotionalStrangeHigherPhotographGhostAppealsDeceptionFakeSuspectsDisturbingPatheticConcealedRefrainHigher LevelEmotional Appeal Author:Yukio Mishima
“The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.” CountryEmotionalHigherCrossesBasesStakesNapsTruckers Author:Mary Karr