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“Unless we possess high spiritual qualifications, there is no doubt that the events life throws upon us will give rise to frustration, emotional turmoil, and other distorted states of consciousness. These imperfect states of mind in turn give rise to imperfect activities, and the seeds of suffering are ever planted in a steady flow.”

Source: The Path to Enlightenment

“Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or 'too bad' if we don't use the gifts that we've been given; we pay for it with our emotional and physical well-being. When we don't use our talents to cultivate meaningful work, we struggle. We feel disconnected and weighted down by feelings of emptiness, frustration, resentment, shame, disappointment, fear, and even grief.”

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

“We need others for our physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Without others we are nothing. Our sense that we are an island, an independent, self-sufficient individual, bears no relation to reality. It is closer to the truth to picture ourself as a cell in the vast body of life, distinct yet intimately bound up with all living beings. We cannot exist without others, and they in turn are affected by everything we do. The idea that it is possible to secure our own welfare while neglecting the welfare of others, or even at the expense of others, is completely unrealistic.”

“A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AIs will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.”

Humans Turns Quality Dangerous Missing Emotional Keys Intelligent Artificial Intelligence Artificial

Author:Ray Kurzweil

“...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.”

Way Seems Turns Easy Emotional Scene Weight Dialogue Sentimental Sympathetic Easy Way

Author:Judith Guest

“School success is not predicted by a child's fund of facts or a precocious ability to read as much as by emotional and social measures; being self-assured and interested: knowing what kind of behavior is expected and how to rein in the impulse to misbehave; being able to wait, to follow directions, and to turn to teachers for help; and expressing needs while getting along with other children.”

Needs Kind Children Self Facts Helping Able School Turns Social Waiting Ability Knowing Teacher Emotional Behavior Expected Impulse Fund Assured Reins Getting Along Precocious

Author:Daniel Goleman

“I can listen to the same song back-to-back for two to three hours straight. I'm not psycho; I swear. There are some songs I won't listen to any more because they are songs that helped me get to emotional places. Even if I hear it, I'll have to walk out of the room or turn it down. It sounds so strange but those things affect me in a certain way.”

Ifs Way I Can Two Certain Song Turns Three Sound Hours Walks Rooms Emotional Strange Swear Psycho

Author:Rami Malek

“With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page.”

Years I Can Sometimes Turns My Own Novel Issues Emotional Months Pages Metaphor Enormous Reactions Resolve My Own Life Emotional Reactions

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I think, in all honesty, the first place that someone in emotional distress should turn is their loved ones, and then to use professionals.”

Thinking Should Firsts Use Turns Honesty Emotional Loved Ones Distress

Author:Peter Kinderman

“I love rock ballads, and I'm kind of in emotional turmoil, being ill and high, so I start to sing to the song, I turn it up and start to sing.”

Kind Song Turns Rocks Emotional Ill Turmoil Ballads Emotional Turmoil

Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.”

Moments Dies Turns Fall Born Our Lives Emotional Baby Falling In Love Beloved Poetry Is Beloved Friends

Author:Erica Jong

“I don't want to impose on anyone else and make anyone else emotional or anything. I tend to quietly cry, kind of turn away.”

Want Kind Turns Cry Emotional

Author:Milo Ventimiglia