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If I feel
depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel
ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge
ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I
feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I
will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will
think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will
remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my
emotions.
-- Og Mandino
1923-1996, American
Motivational Author, Speaker
One ought to
hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon
loses control of the head too.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher
We find
nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip
with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly
just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought
to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we
ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional
vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among
ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus
present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode
of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism,
our penance.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher
He is not
affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but
by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He
pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.
-- Thomas Paine
1737-1809, Anglo-American
Political Theorist, Writer
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When I repress
my emotion my stomach keeps score.
-- John Enoch Powell
1912-, British statesman,
The heart is
half a prophet.
-- Yiddish Proverb
Sayings of Yiddish Origin
All emotions
are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is
impure which seizes only one side of your being and so
distorts you.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
1875-1926, German Poet
Nothing
vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
-- Joseph Roux
1834-1905, French Priest,
Writer
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