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Emotion Quotes - Page 33

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.

"Everybody’s Protest Novel". Essay by James A. Baldwin (1949), as quoted in "Uneasy Rider" by Alexandra Schwartz, www.newyorker.com. November 9, 2015.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

Jacques Barzun (1984). “Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980”, p.61, University of Chicago Press

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.66, Univ of California Press

God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.15, SCM Press

Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else.

Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.135, Bantam

Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.

B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.23, Rodale