When a good man

"When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him."

~Euripides

These resentments

These resentments, they are the rocket fuel that lives in the tip of my sabre.

~Charlie Sheen

I think

“I think people misinterpret my passion for anger.”

~Charlie Sheen

Color is

"Color is but a sensation and has no existence outside the nervous system of living beings."

~Nicholas Ogden Rood

How nice

“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”

~Kurt Vonnegut

You know

You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.

~Charles Manson

A trembling

A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.

~Llewelyn Powers

Purer colors

“Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.”

Henri Matisse

A man who has not

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

~Carl Jung

We cannot

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

~Alan Watts

When your eyes

When your eyes are functioning well you don't see your eyes. If your eyes are imperfect you see spots in front of them. That means there are some lesions in the retina or wherever, and because your eyes aren't working properly, you feel them. In the same way, you don't hear your ears. If you have a ringing in your ears it means there's something wrong with your ears. Therefore, if you do feel yourself, there must be something wrong with you. Whatever you have, the sensation of I is like spots in front of your eyes - it means something's wrong with your functioning.

~Alan Watts

Procrastination is like

Procrastination is like masturbation. At first it feels good, but in the end you're only screwing yourself.

~Author unknown

By starving emotions

"By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it."

-- Joseph Collins

Emotions

"Emotions are the next frontier to be understood and conquered. To manage our emotions is not to drug them or suppress them, but to understand them so that we can intelligently direct our emotional energies and intentions.... It's time for human beings to grow up emotionally, to mature into emotionally managed and responsible citizens. No magic pill will do it."

-- Doc Childre

Cherish your visions

Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.”

—JAMES ALLEN

Painting is

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

— PABLO PICASSO

Do you prefer

Do you prefer that you be right or happy?

~Course in Miracles©

We not only live among men

We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

~Henry Ward Beecher

It's surprising

"It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others."

~Sidney J. Harris

When we harbor

"When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves,
or when we intentionally create pain for others,
we poison our own physical and spiritual systems.
By far the strongest poison to the human spirit
is the inability to forgive oneself or another person.
It disables a person's emotional resources.
The challenge is to refine our capacity to love others as well as ourselves
and to develop the power of forgiveness. "

~ Caroline Myss