Best emotional & mean Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it means it's subject to change; it means approaching it differently, expressing different emotional aspects of it. It doesn't feel like wallowing.”

Feels Mean Different Song Subjects Emotional Aspect Mere Repetition Autonomous Wallowing

Author:St. Vincent

“Having emotional independence means we are no longer tied to the need for constant approval and are, therefore, not coerced into doing more than we feel comfortable doing by our need to please others.”

Needs Feels Mean Emotional Please Comfortable Independence Constant Being Yourself Approval Tied

Book:The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Emotional Strength and Self-Esteem

Source: The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Emotional Strength and Self-Esteem

“Emotional dependence is the opposite of emotional strength. It means needing to have others to survive, wanting others to "do it for us," and depending on others to give us our self-image, make our decisions, and take care of us financially. When we are emotionally dependent, we look to others for our happiness, our concept of "self," and our emotional well-being. Such vulnerability necessitates a search for and dependence on outer support for a sense of our own worth.”

“The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic. I don't mean sad. Melancholy is sort of a comfort. Melancholy has a sort of beauty to it. This attracts me to every other form of art.”

Firsts Mean Art Real Form Song Emotion Emotional Comfort Melancholy Being Real

Author:Keren Ann

“When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.”

People Ifs Should Mean Self Enjoy Prayer Emotional Praying Enlightenment Satisfaction Obvious Valuable Vanity Ritual Beneficial Indulgence Stimulus Observance Self Indulgence Fixation

Book:Seeker After Truth

Source: Seeker After Truth

“The idea of Cable as a man out to protect his daughter by any means necessary gives the character an emotional heft and underlines everything he does. It's richly fulfilling.”

Men Giving Mean Doe Ideas Character Emotional Protect Daughter Fulfilling Cables

Author:Tom Brevoort

“The contradictions in Renan , his feminine sensibility, coquetry, unavowed egotism, and sudden emotional outbursts, all indicate a soul deliberately using distraction as a means of evasion. The perpetual equivocation bears witness to God in the same way as the twisting and turning of a hunted animal indicates the presence of an unseen hunter.”

Way Mean Soul Animal Emotional Bears Witness Contradiction Feminine Distraction Perpetual Sensibility Unseen Hunters Egotism Hunted Evasion Outburst Coquetry Emotional Outbursts

Book:The Impostor

Source: The Impostor

“We already have the material means to eradicate deep poverty and thereby eradicate hunger. We have the material means to begin the tremendous clean up of the environmental messes we’ve created. We have, I believe, the psychological, emotional and spiritual means to create a world without war. We have the material means to create a world in which unnecessary human suffering has been drastically diminished. My vision for the future is that we do those things. And I think we will.”

“Im not the kind of actor that can go completely cold into an emotional scene. I have to transport myself emotionally by whatever means possible, and that basically means you carry the situation with you all week, all episode or all day beforehand.”

Kind Mean Actors Situation Week Emotional Cold Scene Episodes Transport

Author:Jamie Bamber

“[P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever worked, no exercise from myth, revelation, art, trance, or any other conceivable means; and notwithstanding the emotional satisfaction it gives, mysticism, the strongest prescientific probe in the unknown, has yielded zero.”

People Giving Mean Art Reality Religion Common Emotional Exercise Satisfaction Myth Tiny Common Sense Revelations Mysticism Strongest Zero Spheres Trance

Author:E. O. Wilson

“I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but I am a non-invasivist rather than a non-violentist. That is, I believe that an invaded people have the right to defend themselves by any means necessary. This includes putting ground glass or poison in the invaders' food, shooting at them from ambush, sabotage, the general strike, armed revolution, etc. It's up to the invaded to decide which of these techniques they will use. It's not up to some moralist to tell them which techniques are permissible.”

People Believe Mean War Use I Believe Emotional Revolution Glasses Heavy Strikes Technique Shooting Poison Etc Call Me Identification Pacifist Sabotage Moralist Invaders Ambush

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.”

Mean Littles Long Ends Bigs Care Found Justice White Steps Morning Support Policy Emotional Charity Complexes Privilege Satisfaction Evening Novelists Awards Savior Afternoon Brutal Slam

Author:Teju Cole

“I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.”

Kind Mean Desire Emotional Waste Addiction Chemicals Twelve Columns

Author:Carrie Fisher

“Whenever I have to do an emotional scene, I just take my contacts out and it means I can't see anything.”

Mean I Can Emotional Scene Contact

Author:Laurie Holden

“By all means give vent to your anger, let it out in nondestructive ways--if you are still deciding to have it. But begin to think of yourself as someone who can learn to think new thoughts when you are frustrated, so that the immobilizing anger can be replaced by more fulfilling emotions. Annoyance, irritation, and disappointment are feelings that you will very likely continue to experience, since the world will never be the way you want it. But anger, that hurtful emotional response to obstacles, can be eliminated.”

“Although pretend play is important, it is still the means to an end, not the end itself. Do not make the mistake of thinking a contrived, pretend drama can substitute for real interpersonal comfort in dealing with important emotional issues.”

Thinking Mean Stills Important Real Ends Play Mistake Issues Emotional Comfort Drama Substitutes Means To An End Interpersonal

Author:Stanley Greenspan

“Regardless, heterosexual marriage is largely in trouble today because people see it as a selfish means of pleasing self, rather than a committed relationship in which the focus is on meeting the needs of the partner, that sense of selfishness and the redefinition of love as to something that is purely sentimental and emotional, has been destructive.”

“You gotta not care about what people think in general about you. I'm not talking about bad stuff, if you're a nasty person, because I don't consider myself a mean person, I consider that I know what i want and I'm tough. But I'm very emotional and un-tough on a lot of levels, I cry very easily, I'm sensitive and I don't think that's a bad thing.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Mean Persons Care Stuff Levels Talking Cry Emotional Tough Sensitive Bad Things Nasty Not Talking Bad Stuff Mean Person

Author:Joan Jett

“The word 'heart' can refer to an emotional bond between people, and also to the precious faculty of empathy, an 'open heart', which means sharing the feelings of another and includes an outflow of goodwill towards our fellow humans and all life forms. This, of course, is what the Dalai Lama refers to when he says "my religion is kindness", and is closely related to the ability to feel compassion.”

People Feels Humans Heart Mean Feelings Form Courses Ability Compassion Kindness Emotional Empathy Fellows Related Faculty Goodwill Open Heart Lama Dalai

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God”

Love Mean Emotional Ought Terror Indulgence God Is Love Otherness Meaning Of Love

Book:He Came Down From Heaven

Source: He Came Down From Heaven

“In personal conversations between director and actor, the male directors that I've worked with are just as emotional. Maybe it's because I had to start having very intimate conversations with adult men at a very young age in order to get the work, but I'm really comfortable with dudes. I mean, we push boundaries in this business in terms of getting to know people.”

People Knows Men Mean Age Young Order Actors Term Emotional Directors Conversation Comfortable Adults Males Boundaries Intimate Young Age Intimate Conversation

Author:Kristen Stewart

“I'm a Cancer, which means I'm maternal and emotional. So in relationships I'm screwed.”

Mean Emotional Cancer

Author:Lindsay Lohan

“The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.”

Writing Trying Looks Mean Emotional Truth Is Dramatic Telling The Truth Edits

Author:Erica Jong

“People have different ideas, emotional ideas, of what certain words mean, and they think of irony as something that's more associated with being cynical-it's kind of a put-down.”

People Thinking Kind Mean Ideas Different Certain Emotional Irony Cynical Different Ideas

Author:Jeff Koons

“Religion is (a) a pre-scientific system of explanation and technology; (b) a source of meaning, direction and emotional expression in life; (c) a means of social control; (d) a means of coping with uncertainty and death.”

Mean Social Technology Emotional Expression Source Uncertainty Explanation Coping Social Control Emotional Expression

Author:Max More

“When we understand the privilege of what it means to be an athlete, we are in touch with, and rejoice in, our physical, mental, and emotional strengths and our endless possibilities.”

Mean Possibility Emotional Athlete Privilege Endless Rejoice Inspirational Sports Infinite Possibilities Emotional Strength Endless Possibilities

Author:Gloria Averbuch

“I wanted to see if I could create something that is emotional between people. Existing games are about killing each other or killing something together. The idea of social emotion means people need to share feelings. At that moment, the players are in sync. The problem [with many games] is there's no chance to share emotion. Most of them are busy, [there are] explosions everywhere. So we got rid of all the background noise and we had to get rid of the guns.”

“Passion gives me emotional strength... Passion means power!”

Giving Mean Passion Emotional Give Me Emotional Strength

Author:Sanjay Dutt

“Antonio Gramsci said that social reformers should have pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will. This means that one must have the intellectual ability to see how bad things are and the emotional ability to look forward with hope. It's a hard combination to sustain, but if you can do it, you can change the world.”

“No one attached to the traditional image of authoritarian patriarchy could imagine the consternation men endure. They have suffered an unexpected blow to the emotional quality of their lives. Its gravity has not been calculated. They have far fewer reliable links than women to the classic currents of family life. They are alienated not only, as Marx said, from the means of production but also from the means of reproduction.”

Men Mean Said Quality Imagine Emotional Endure Blow Currents Productions Traditional Classic Unexpected Links Fewer Gravity Patriarchy Family Life Reproduction Consternation

Author:Lionel Tiger

“If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes no costly demands and which fails to distinguish between natural and Christian existence, then we cannot help regarding the cross as an ordinary everyday calamity, as one of the trials and tribulations of life. We have then forgotten that the cross means rejection and shame as well as suffering .”

“My mother's work has been an enormous influence on me, but not literally. By that I mean, my photographs don't look like hers. That makes it difficult to compare them. What they do share is an emotional intensity.”

Looks Mean Has Beens Mother Difficult Share Influence Emotional Photograph Enormous Compare Intensity

Author:Amy Arbus

“What does it mean to go deeper? Taking pictures when you're more emotional or sorrowful, or having sex? I just want to have really boring snapshots - people just standing in front of a camera taking pictures with a smile.”

People Want Mean Doe Sex Fronts Emotional Standing Cameras Boring Deeper Having Sex Snapshots Sorrowful Taking Pictures

Author:Nikki S. Lee

“In the Christian sense, love is not primarily an emotion but an act of the will. When Jesus tells us to love our neighbors, he is not telling us to love them in the sense of responding to them with a cozy emotional feeling. You can as well produce a cozy emotional feeling as you can a cough or sneeze. On the contrary, he is telling us to love our neighbors in the sense of being willing to work for their well-being even if it means sacrificing our well-being to that end.”

Ifs Wells Mean Ends Feelings Christian Jesus Love Is Emotion Sacrifice Produce Emotional Willing Neighbor Contrary Well Being Responding Cozy

Book:Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.

Source: Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.

“We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it by means of natural association or emotional or spiritual union. There is no way from one person to another. However loving and sympathetic we try to be, however sound our psychology however frank and open our behaviour we cannot penetrate the incognito of the other man, for there are no direct relationships, not even between soul and soul. Christ stands between us, and we can only get into touch with our neighbors through Him.”

“A good mixtape didn't just gather together a bunch of love songs, but instead created an emotional narrative specific to your affection. The stories in most of my favorite collections are collected more like songs on a mixtape than, say, collected like spare change. By which I mean they are in conversation with each other and work to become larger than their parts.”

Mean Stories Together Song Emotional Conversation My Favorite Affection Bunch Narrative Collections Spares Mixtapes Spare Change

Author:Anthony Marra

“I had a visceral connection to the period [of Korean War]. By visceral I suppose I mean emotional. But every fiction requires so much that is not that so I did a lot of other research and a lot of thinking, a lot of struggling there.”

Thinking Mean War Fiction Struggle Emotional Periods Research Connections Korean Visceral Korean War

Author:Chang-Rae Lee

“I think his portraits of Jackie, Liz, Marilyn, Mao, Elvis, Lenin - and objects like the soup cans, the dollar signs, the hammer and sickle, it's all about icons. Its all about what people worship in an irreligious or secular world. In terms of Andy's personality and Andy Warhol as a human being who I was very close to, I still feel kind of sorry for him on a personal level. I mean, he was the ultimate example of great success wrapped around inner turmoil and emotional pain.”

“It's interesting, for me sappy means sentimental and something that gets you in your heart, gets you emotional. That's what I mean. Also, of course, it means that I'm slightly setting up the audience that there's a bit of fun involved, as well.”

Wells Heart Mean Courses Fun Bits Interesting Audience Emotional Involved Setting Settings Sentimental

Author:Alan Cumming

“I don't like bands who would play music like Code. I mean I hate most bands with emotional singing parts (I adore metal singing like Iron Maiden though!)”

Mean Play Hate Emotional Band Singing I Hate Code Iron Metals Adore Maidens Iron Maiden

Author:Mat McNerney

“Just because I said lyrics are a sign of the inability to sing doesn't mean....A) I believe that, or B) I don't think they're cool. They are cool. Words are great. I sing along with my favorite songs, but when I am drumming and singing, the words become a note that for me. In the process of playing they have more emotional impact as notes then an actual word.”

Thinking Believe Mean Said Song I Believe Process Emotional Singing Impact Notes My Favorite Inability Favorite Song Drumming

Author:Brian Chippendale

“Gaps can be very emotional. I mean, that's in my drumming. When I drum, you know, I don't need to drum all over the track. I play with the singer and I can back off.”

Knows Needs Mean I Can Play Emotional Track Singers Gaps Drumming

Author:Ringo Starr

“Learning to "just say no" to emotional reactions isn't repression. Saying no means not engaging the frustration, anger, judgment, or blame. Without engagement, you won't have anything to repress.”

Mean Emotional Judgment Anger Management Blame Reactions Frustration Engagement Engaging Repression Saying No Anger Management Just Say No Emotional Reactions

Author:Doc Childre

“Globalisation means indeed everything is global but there are still very specific centres of power, especially when it comes to media and news.Misinformation about some attacks is going to affect how emotionally involved the audience is going to get. In the end, an emotional ranking is artificially created when it comes to casualties.”

Mean Stills Ends Audience Media Emotional Involved News Centre Casualties Misinformation Ranking Globalisation

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“Taking photographs seems to be a means to express some kind of emotional, abstractive narrative. I look at the images that I'm most proud of like a film about the world the way I see it (or at least saw it at that moment, a perspective that seems to be ever-shifting and filled with self-doubt.)”

World Way Looks Kind Mean Self Moments Seems Film Doubt Saws Emotional Perspective Proud Filled Photograph Narrative That Moment Shifting Self-doubt

Author:Anton Yelchin

“I think love means a warm feeling about a human or a condition, where you feel emotional, and you feel like you want to be around them or it. You want to take care of it or them, the person, and be with them.”

Thinking Want Feels Humans Mean Persons Feelings Care Conditions Emotional Like You Warm Take Care Love Means

Author:Fisher Stevens

“And still as an adult like I do as well, you know what I mean like I literally just cried in the first interview that I had today. Like, I'm just a very emotional human.”

Knows Firsts Humans Wells Mean Stills Today Emotional Adults Interviews Cried

Author:Melanie Martinez

“My mom has kind of been more of the emotional support system. One time I was really feeling all out of it, just dealing with a lot of cooks in the kitchen and adjusting to what it means to be in the music industry, and I called her. One of the first things she said to me was 'You have to be thankful that these people even like you, no one liked me, at all, I was not really accepted for a very long time.'”

“Both Kant and Fichte thought of traditions of revealed religion as ways of symbolically (that is, with aesthetic emotional power) thinking about our moral condition. Both thought that religion would become more and not less powerful, emotionally and morally, if the claims of scriptures and religious teachings were taken symbolically rather than literally (whatever 'literally' might mean in the case of claims that are either nonsensical or outdated or historically unsupportable if taken as metaphysical or historical assertions).”

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