“I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.” PeopleThinkingWayWantEndsFeelingsPowerfulEmotionalMarriedNegativeUncertainty Author:Alain de Botton
“There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and a spiritual . Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.” PeopleIfsPersonsSpiritualHouseRoomsFourEmotionalPersonalityIndianMentalityCompletenessPhysicalityFour Rooms Author:Rumer Godden
“A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to the future. Pretend to be a vampire. I don't really need to pretend, because it's who I am, an emotional vampire. I've just come to expect it. Vampires are real. That I was born this way. That I feed off of other people's real emotions. Search for this night's prey. Who will it be?” PeopleWayNeedsLooksRealFeelingsPastNightBornEmotionEmotionalLetting GoWho I AmVampirePreyNumbBorn This WayReal EmotionRules Of Attraction Author:Bret Easton Ellis
“That is what is wrong with cold people. Not that they have ice in their souls - we all have a bit of that - but that they insist every word and deed mirror that ice. They never learn the beauty or value of gesture. The emotional necessity. For them, it is all honesty before kindness, truth before art. Love is art, not truth. It's like painting scenery.” PeopleArtSoulValuesBitsLove IsKindnessHonestyEmotionalPaintingColdMirrorsDeedsIceGesturesSceneryArt Love Author:Lorrie Moore
“We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.” PeopleWellsMadeBeliefTermHealingEmotionalAmountComfortDrinkingAffectionAlcoholContactHugCocktailsDrinking AlcoholGreat DrinkingAlcohol DrinkingGreat AlcoholAlcohol And LifeCocktail DrinksDrinks And Love Book:Naked Source: Naked
“The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either -- or both -- when needed?” PeopleWorldShouldSoulProblemSpiritualSpiritIndividualAcceptingVirtueImagineHumilityEmotionalWillingNeededFilledForgivingMaturityWillingnessPossessedApologyApologizingAspireEither OrSpirit And SoulEmotional Maturity Author:Gordon B. Hinckley
“There is one other error in the Gondsman's line of resoning, I believe, on ap urely emotional level. If machines replace achievement, then to what will people aspire? And who are we, truly, without such goals? Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunity should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual.” PeopleIfsWorldShouldBelieveOpportunityIndividualI BelieveGoalLinesLevelsEmotionalEqualAchievementMachinesErrorsEngineersAspireEqual Opportunity Author:R. A. Salvatore