I'm a big fan of Elmore Leonard, and I've read Ian Rankin, Christopher Brookmyre and so on. But I'd never read a crime novel that made me feel emotional at the end.
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
Don’t deny your emotions and force yourself to smile when you feel like crying. Cry, but learn to smile through your tears.
It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected.
Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.
The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.
I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.
So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes.
Democracy allows rhetoric, false empathy and emotion to pummel rational thinking - so it's no wonder so many politicians thrive in it.
Life is like a painting you reflect the image based on your feeling, emotion, character, attitude and how you made it.
I'm a firm believer in utilizing celebrities because they tap into people on an emotional basis.
While the goal of a book is to create a positive emotional experience for the reader, the goal of the opening is to set the stage, to pull the reader in.
So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.
People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.
Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.
As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.
It takes great character and understanding of human emotions to help someone you shouldn't be helping under normal circumstances.
One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.
I don't let anyone's insecurities, emotions, or opinions bother me. I know that if I am happy, that's all that matters to me.
Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
