“ The letter is too belligerent. If I were you, I would state the facts as they were, without the pepper and salt. Abraham Lincoln Harold Holzer
“ In the immediate aftermath of the great Chicago fire, a business proprietor erected a shack in front of his burned-out business. On a sign, he placed his name and the tagline that everything was gone… H.W. Brands
“ Gratitude becomes spiritual, a spiritual virtue and a spiritual emotion, when we are moved in our response by a God-centered view of the three: gift, recipient, and giver. – p. 56 Ray A.
“ Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To lose wonder is to lose the true element of religion. Oswald Chambers
“ Quite possibly, this depressive illness was the familiar sort that grew from perfectionist expectations. Paul C. Nagel
“ Today we recognize that the emotion of disgust evolved as an unconscious defense against biological contamination. Steven Pinker
“ These raids didn't usually end in violence, but people got emotional, and emotional people did stupid things. Aron Christensen
“ Philosophers in the scholastic tradition have usually defined intellectual certitude as a proposition in which we have no reasonable 'fear' of the opposite proposition turning out to be the truth. But… Frederick D. Wilhelmsen
“ The human brain is a cultural artifact. We don't load culture into a virgin brain like software loading into a computer; rather, culture helps to wire the brain. Brains then become carriers of culture… Lisa Feldman Barrett
“ Fear is an emotion you control, not the other way around. We control fear when we let it go. Elliot Kay
“ The right thing was confusing, and difficult, and sometimes Jason wondered if it was in fact a nonexistent ideal, like heaven or the American dream. There was no right thing. You did what you did for… Thomas Mullen
“ When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or… H.L. Mencken
“ It is not excess of thought but defect of fertile and generous emotion that marks them out. Their heads are no bigger than the ordinary: it is the atrophy of te chest beneath that makes them seem so. C.S. Lewis
“ I love you because you loved me first. Yet you love me, saying I loved you first. Funny, our love thrives believing the other person started it. Richelle E. Goodrich
“ Animals hold us to what is present: to who we are at the time, not who we’ve been or how are bank accounts describe us. What’s obvious to an animal is not the embellishment that fattens our emotional… Gretel Ehrlich
“ One’s love for his country is a very sacred emotion that is intertwined with their sense of moral obligation and is an essential part of one’s identity. Aysha Taryam
“ Humans pursuing deep, complete connections respond to quite different incentives from those that influence self-interested utility maximizers. Rewards, monitoring, and punishments are less likely to b… Anne-Marie Slaughter
