You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.
-- Greg Anderson
American Author of ''The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness''
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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
-- Honore De Balzac
1799-1850, French Novelist
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The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.
-- Lester Bangs
1948-1982, American Rock Journalist
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It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
-- Elizabeth Bowen
1899-1973, Anglo-Irish Novelist
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Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.
-- Robert Browning
1812-1889, British Poet
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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author
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By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it.
-- Joseph Collins
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It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
-- Joseph Conrad
1857-1924, Polish-born British Novelist
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