“The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ is no easy-chair job.”
“Painting is a great outlet for those inner emotions you cannot get out any other way.”
“Dreams can twist your emotions like no reality can.”
“I write so the endangered thoughts roaming naked and vulnerable through the misty jungles of my mind aren t slain by the guns of practical living.”
“Feeling sorry for myself was an art.”
“Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of the internal rivals - is optimal for brains. ... Some balance of the emotional and rational systems is needed, and that balance may already be optimized by natural selection in human brains.”
“It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own.”
“You can t plan someone else s future, and I fully plan to become someone else.”
“The Pāli term for feeling is vedanā, derived from the verb vedeti, which means both to feel and to know . In its usage in the discourses, vedanā comprises both bodily and mental feelings. Vedanā does not include emotion in its range of meaning. Although emotions arise depending on the initial input provided by feeling, they are more complex mental phenomena than bare feeling itself and are therefore rather the domain of the next [third] satipaṭṭhāna, contemplation of states of mind.”
“Emotions get our attention.”