they held their emotions under glass

When I was in my early 20's, back in the late 60's, I attended a mandatory meeting with an untraditional speaker in a very traditional environment. This experience became etched in my life! I LOVE feeling and expressing EMOTIONS! So bear with me as I get a little carried away here with some subtly EXPLOSIVE quotations!

~ ENJOY ~ LAUGH ~ CRY ~ DREAM ~ SCREAM ~

 

. . . and sing along with me as I second that emotion!

 

“Love isn't an emotion or an instinct--it's an art.” ~ Mae West ~

 

“But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love - why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.” ~ anon ~

 

“As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery… we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness.” ~ Dalai Lama ~

 

“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.”

~ Emily Dickinson ~

 

“I adore art...when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.” ~ Giuseppe Verdi ~

 

“The greatest reward is to know that one can speak and emit articulate sounds and utter words that describe things, events and emotions.” ~ Camilo Jose Cela ~

 

“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 ~

Done