“Joy, like love, is an impenetrable, God-given state of being. The distinctions between joy and happiness and love and affection are important ones under the notion that happiness is an 'iffy' emotion, a highly dependent feeling both aroused and destroyed by external conditions apart from God. And the distinction between love and affection is parallel to such.” ImportantStatesFeelingsJoyGivenLove IsEmotionConditionsAnd LoveNotionAffectionDestroyedDistinctionDependentParallelsLike LoveJoy And HappinessHappiness And LoveLove And Affection Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“The fact of the matter is that, since we are determined always to keep our feelings to ourselves, we have never given any thought to the manner in which we should express them. And suddenly there is within us a strange and obscene animal making itself heard, whose tones may inspire as much alarm in the person who receives the involuntary, elliptical and almost irresistible communication of one's defect or vice as would the sudden avowal indirectly and outlandishly proffered by a criminal who can no longer refrain from confessing to a murder of which one had never imagined him to be guilty.” ShouldMayPersonsMatterFactsFeelingsGivenAnimalEmotionHeardInspireStrangeCommunicationMurderVicesDeterminedCriminalsGuiltyToneDefectsAlarmsIrresistibleRefrainObsceneInvoluntaryConfessing Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way
“In the Fragments, sensations are more profound and richly clarified through deliberate and explicit pattern; emotions are given a sequence and development such as the exigencies of practical life rarely permit.” GivenEmotionDevelopmentProfoundPatternsPracticalsSensationsPermitFragmentsDeliberateSequenceExplicitPractical Life Author:Alton Tobey
“The public's continuing ambivalence about cultural matters is all the more striking given that the political conversation on these issues has for 30 years been dominated by an aggressive, radical right-wing insurgency that has achieved an influence far out of proportion to its numbers. Its potent secret weapon has been the guilt and anxiety about desire that inform the character of Americans regardless of ideology; appealing to those largely unconscious emotions, the right has disarmed, intimidated, paralyzed its opposition.” YearsHas BeensMatterCharacterPoliticalDesireGivenNumbersSecretEmotionIssuesInfluenceConversationAnxietyWeaponsWingsGuiltIdeologyRadicalProportionUnconsciousOppositionAggressiveContinuingRight WingIntimidatedParalyzedAmbivalenceInsurgency Author:Ellen Willis
“But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.” WellsJobsGivenEmotionSuccessfulFieldsEmotionalStrongerDetermineHandleOur RelationshipEmotional Intelligence Author:Daniel Goleman
“If you are engaging rationality, you are already engaging a place that makes you unavailable. Only when I recognize that inspiration has announced itself to my availability will I then say I need to use my mind to calculate exposure, my emotions to position myself and arrange a configuration of shapes that need to come into being, my body to put it all in place because we have been given a message and it has come through inspiration through being available.'” IfsNeedsMindHas BeensUseBodyInspirationGivenEmotionPositionShapesMessagesPhotographerAvailableRationalityEngagingExposureAvailabilityConfiguration Author:Paul Caponigro
“Not alone to know, but to act according to thy knowledge, is thy destination,--proclaims the voice of my inmost soul. Not for indolent contemplation and study of thyself, nor for brooding over emotions of piety,--no, for action was existence given thee; thy actions, and thy actions alone, determine thy worth.” KnowsSoulActionGivenVoiceEmotionExistenceStudyDetermineTheeContemplationDestinationNot AloneThyselfPietyBrooding Author:Johann Gottlieb Fichte
“It is characteristic to believe that those in need are given to, that the squeaky hinge is the one that gets the oil, but in the realm of emotions this is not so. It is the person who does not solicit liking and love, admiration and respect, sympathy and empathy to whom they are freely given.” NeedsBelievePersonsDoeGivenEmotionEmpathyRespectAnd LoveOilRealmsCharacteristicsAdmirationHingesThose In NeedAdmiration And Respect Book:Advice from a Failure Source: Advice from a Failure
“Readers must be given room to bring their own emotions to a piece so crammed with emotional content; the writer must tenaciously resist explaining why the material is so moving.” MovingGivenRoomsEmotionPiecesEmotionalMaterialsReaderExplaining Author:William Zinsser
“As a pianist, our particular role is to enter a piece and its logic and create a particular interpretation from our understanding. The most important thing for the performer is, after all, to create a special atmosphere - we enter the composer's feelings and emotions and recreate them freshly for a given audience.” ImportantFeelingsGivenUnderstandingEmotionRolesAudiencePiecesSpecialParticularLogicImportant ThingsAtmosphereInterpretationPerformersComposerFeelings And EmotionsPianist Author:Rafal Blechacz
“The years of imprisonment hardened me ... Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn't be blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life ... there is no longer anything I can fear. There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known.” IfsWayYearsHas BeensI CanDoneMomentsGovernmentHappensPainNextGivenFearWaitingEmotionKnownCasesHavensPrisonBlowImprisonmentHardened Author:Winnie Madikizela-Mandela