A human being is a part of a whole, called by us "universe", a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest.. A kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
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I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.
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Love God and trust your feelings. Be loyal to them. Don't betray them.
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It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.
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Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.
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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander by can judge of.
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I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
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A film is or should be more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
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Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
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Once in a while you meet someone, and soon you both discover the two of you are truly something special to each other.. You share your thoughts and feelings so relaxed, so openly, and right away you know your friendship's truly meant to be.
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We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards the things we live by and teach our children are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
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War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more importan
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You ask me why I do not write something..I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.
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Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.
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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem and in my esteem age is not estimable.
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One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
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When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.
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One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates.
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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which
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