#motions

This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps. ↗

— Frederick Law Olmsted

#i #into #just #keep #labor

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#life

I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#sadness #beauty

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing. ↗

— Nile Rodgers

#doing #emotions #enhances #i #like

Love is a circular emotion that surrounds you, like a hug. Or a noose.
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— Jarod Kintz

#emotion #emotions #funny #hug #humor

Resentment is like a drug. Once you pick it up, it will only get worse and worse until you surrender and do the work to let it go. ↗

— Samantha Leahy

#addiction-recovery #anger #emotions #inspirational #recovery

Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and himself. Nobody else much entered into it. After the people came into it he was, of course, a different man. Everything had changed then and he was no longer the virgin, with the virgin's right to insist upon platonic love. Life, in time, takes every maidenhead, even if it has to dry it up; it does not matter how the owner wants to keep it. Up to then he had been the young idealist. But he could not stay there. Not after the other people entered into it. ↗

— James Jones

#emotions #indifference #sense-of-self #virginity #change

Subject to the law(s) of nature, hate is born to die ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#emotions #energy #force #hate #nature

Emotions have cycles whereas love endures. Some people confuse emotions, which are ever-changing, with love's durability. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#feelings #love #change

She cried and he held her and he cried too. He didn't think that either could say what they were crying about, but it was something they needed to do, right now, together, and then, quite suddenly, they were laughing, hard, brash laughter that came up from someplace deep. ↗

— Elizabeth Brundage

#healing-the-past #love