Isn't it the task of the Holy Spirit to introduce some madness and intoxication into the world? Why this propensity for balance and safety? Don't we all long for one moment of raw risk, one moment of divine madness?
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With every try, I Know I am closer!
We have no heart at seventeen. We think we do; we think we have been cursed with a holy, bloated thing that twitches at the name we adore, but it is not a heart because though it will forfeit anything in the world-the mind, the body, the future, even the last lonely hour it has-it will not sacrifice itself.
We all have the power to change the emotions of the ones around us. A kind word could make someone__ day, just as a harsh one will bring pain. The secret is to know your own energy and use it to fill the room around you.
Emotions rage inside me, something like a world war twisting inside my stomach and poking holes in my lungs. I can't pick apart reality from fantasy - does that mean insanity isn't far from my reach?
When he had ended, the holy hermit was a moment silent, then said: "My son, I have attended to thy story and I know the maiden. I have myself seen her, as have many. Know, then, that she is capricious for she imposeth conditions that man cannot fulfill, and delinquency is punished by desertion. She cometh only when unsought, and will not be questioned. One manifestation of curiosity, one sign of doubt, one expression of misgiving, and she is away!
Amusement and annoyance are, perhaps, both forms of denial.
The way to live well is to feel intensely.
Passion, emotion, love and romance they all look better in movies; in reality all you need is a big dick.
We come into this world crying and calling, wailing and singing; and for the first months of our life all our needs and instincts, our dissatisfactions and discoveries are immediately vocalized without apology and without censor.
Writing is mostly a case of mood management. The emotion you have is not absolute, it is temporary. It may be useful, but it is not the truth. It is not you.
My personal philosophy is that you do art to experience emotion that you don't have the luxury of experiencing in real life.
He had won, easily. This was something else he could do, and do well, and his Dad had been there to witness his success.
Being a 'potential mate' was something rather different and much more complicated. It was when two people had the potential to become like one person, knowing each other's moods and feelings in a way no one else could. Being aware of their presence in a crowded room was just one example. If they were sad or angry, their mate would sense it to a point of feeling the emotion themselves.
I__ a feeler. I feel everything deep within my core. Even when I don__ want to. I don__ know where my emotions stop and my empathy begins. I feel from the tips of my toes to the follicles of my head. I feel with every fiber, every molecule, every tissue, marrow, muscle, and bone in my body. I feel.
It doesn't seem right to throw dirt at you when you're dead...
Fear is an emotion, not a stock indicator.
Each tear being shed holds a thousand pounds of truth.