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“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.”

— Edward O. Wilson, Share via Whatsapp

“When the rusty shackles of our emotions are being unchained, we can become lovers without a cause, and intrinsically the deepest wells of our unconsciousness may uncover the uncharted territories of deliverance, granting free rein to our intuition and giving love downright carte blanche. ( Another empty room )”

— Erik Pevernagie, Share via Whatsapp

“If we hesitate between veiling and revealing our emotions or vacillate between shrouding and disclosing our thoughts, we must understand the nuts and bolts of our individual construct and underpin the elasticity of our mental frame. ( Unfulfilled meeting )”

— Erik Pevernagie, Share via Whatsapp

“Everybody wants what feels good; and if we wish a symphony of attention from a bunch of caring people and a harmony of happy sounds during our lifetime, we must not act like dark horses, saving up our emotions, but be bountiful to all significant others. ( “Axelle Red “)”

— Erik Pevernagie, Share via Whatsapp

“Let us look at the things we don’t see, let us listen to the echo of the sound behind the clamor and discern the crackling in the brushwood of our emotions, so we may recognize the tokens of the heartbeats we might miss and value the quality and the bite of our life story. ( This is no chicken feed )”

— Erik Pevernagie, Share via Whatsapp

“When the ashes of the wildfire of love have been scattered in the hazy den of oblivion and emotions have gone out of commission, life gets unremittingly tangled up, if no inner voices emerge to enlighten the looming shadows of hesitant expectations, if no shimmer sparks the magic appeal of ‘Being in the world’. ( Fish for silence. )”

— Erik Pevernagie, Share via Whatsapp

“As gloom and doom have been creeping into their lives, many can’t feel anymore the freshness of their emotions that withered alongside the wearisome path of their expectations. ( Drunken sailor )”

— Erik Pevernagie, Share via Whatsapp

“The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.”

— Robert Greene, Mastery, Share via Whatsapp

“This is how life works. Deciding whom to love is not an alien form of decision-making, a romantic interlude in the midst of normal life. Instead, decisions about whom to love are more intense versions of the sorts of decisions we make throughout the course of our existence, from what kind of gelato to order to what career to pursue. Living is an inherently emotional business.”

— David Brooks, Share via Whatsapp

“Choose thoughts that give you the emotions of being alive and excited about life.”

— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life, Share via Whatsapp

“...men aren t in touch with their emotions, and don t share enough [?]”

— Meg Cabot, Princess in Love, Share via Whatsapp

“I looked around at the rooms that I did not see as rooms but more as a landscape for my emotions, a biography of memory.”

— Anne Spollen, The Shape of Water, Share via Whatsapp

“Our bodies are the canvas of our emotions, and most often, we let the world paint it.”

— Natasha Potter, Share via Whatsapp

“She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.”

— Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume, Share via Whatsapp

“We ve all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we ll be sure to have some tomorrow.”

— Jose Saramango, Share via Whatsapp

“Lacking a shared language, emotions are perhaps our most effective means of cross-species communication. We can share our emotions, we can understand the language of feelings, and that s why we form deep and enduring social bonds with many other beings. Emotions are the glue that binds.”

— Marc Bekoff, The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter, Share via Whatsapp

“Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.”

— Rachel Hartman, Seraphina, Share via Whatsapp