Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. - Samuel Adams (1722-1803)
Something in our human nature longs for that experience of complete emotional absorption, that magical moment when we are swept away. It is passion that entertains us. When a book is written ,without passion, you lose interest. When a team plays without passion, the game becomes boring. "These guys are asleep," a fan complains. To feed this appetite, we reward those who can stir our emotions to the greatest heights. Actors, athletes and rock musicians make millions because they know how to turn on our passion.--Barbara De Angelis, _Passion_
People may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. --Carl W. Buechner
Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them. --Charles Dickens ,_The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Chapter 2_.
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove! --John Dryden (1631-1700) _The Rival Ladies_ [1664]
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.- Benjamin Franklin, 1706 - 1790
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion. --Carl Jung
Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.--C.S. Lewis The Abolition of Man
Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased. - C S Lewis
As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone -- which is not, in some form or degree, in every human heart.... George MacDonald (1824-1905), "Abba, Father!"
Christianity doth not abrogate affections, but regulates them. - Thomas Manton
To understand via the heart is not to understand.-- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.- - M. Scott Peck
The mind leads, the emotions follow. -- Ayn Rand
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