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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emoti

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

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Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness. – John Sterling

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Now I am not one of the most constant creatures alive myself, and am apt to run through the spectrum which has the blues at the bottom about once a week. – Byron Caldwell Smith (1849-1877), letter to Kate Stephens

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You cant expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you cant expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones. – Greg Anderson

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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam. – G. K. Chesterton

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