“ Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act, for better or worse, to determine the meaning of our lives...Deus ex m… Robert McKee
“ She had been too well-trained to allow her emotions to take control of her at the time, but the feelings were too strong to quietly recede into a regimen of critical thought. Deep inside her they stew… Matt K. Turner
“ How many people did you know that refracted your own light to you? People were more often – he searched for a simile, found one in his work – torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely d… Ray Bradbury
“ My inward experience has often been a wilderness; but Thou hast owned me still as Thy beloved, and poured streams of love and grace into me to gladden me, and make me fruitful. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“ Sometimes happiness can come very simply, purely, merely if one is ready to embrace it with open arms. Shampa Sharma
“ God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object. Richard Rohr
“ The desire to touch her, to kiss her would end up with her walking away and him hurting again. So why the hell did he reach up and stroke her cheek with the back of his knuckle? Leah Braemel
“ At Gethsemane: "Jesus is subordinating His loudest desires to His deepest desires. Timothy J. Keller
“ Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion...Life on its own, without a… Robert McKee
“ Tony knows the names of trees and birds. As we walk around, he points them out to me. I try to record them in my mind, but the information never holds. What matters to me is the emotional meaning of t… David Levithan
“ But what is the way forward? I know what it isn't. It's not, as we once believed, plenty to eat and a home with all the modern conveniences. It's not a 2,000-mile-long wall to keep Mexicans out or mor… Laurence Gonzales
“ Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders? And even if one of them suddenly pressed me against his heart, I should fade in the strength of his stronger existence. For beauty's nothing bu… Rainer Maria Rilke
“ If the landscape of human emotion were to exist in country, it would be in Italy." ~Lisa Fantino/Amalfi Blue Lisa Fantino
“ There comes a moment in all travel when you know that you have really started. It may be weeks before you start or weeks after you have started; it is a spiritual emotion, a turning towards the future… H.V. Morton
“ For once the crofter was at a a rather loss for words, for to him nothing has ever been more completely unintelligible than the reasoning that is bred of tears. Halldór Laxness
“ John Quincy Adams' depression was treated by his aunt with some reliable remedies, first sleep and then compassion. She said, " He was half cared for by having someone to care for him. Paul C. Nagel
