#57: | I used to think the platypus was my favorite monotreme until I met the echidna. So hard to choose! (and the hurt feelings if I do) |
#134: | Regret is such a painful emotion that people will do anything to avoid it. They'll deny history or cripple their future to make it go away. |
#178: | Preceding every collapse is euphoria, the feeling that we are special and can do anything and that the old rules no longer apply. |
#209: | A sociopath is incapable of empathizing with others. He may detect & exploit others' feelings, but he doesn't identify with them. |
#229: | Modern audio-visual entertainment overloads the emotional system, making people numb and passive. My old essay: http://bit.ly/mztcx |
#263: | Never get angry. It is a universally destructive emotion. It eats you up inside while getting poor results outside. |
#264: | Romantic advice comes in two flavors: "Trust your feelings" and "Trust no one." Can't there be a middle ground? |
#276: | You can't sing the same song over and over with real feeling. Only the first few times are genuine; it's acting after that. |
#280: | Information obesity results in passivity and shallowness of feeling. You do only the minimum required of you, little more. |
#294: | Boredom is an attitude, not a real emotion. It reflects your own refusal to make creative use of the time available to you. |
#518: | For a witness to be emotionally satisfying he must be superhuman to us. We feel alive only when acknowledged by someone higher. |
#609: | The Beatles invented musical irony. Before that, popular songs expressed only bland, conventional emotions. |
#814: | Someone can be "smart" and "talented" but that's only part of the story. The rest is how they are emotionally invested. |
#1008: | Most people make poor photographers because they can't separate their own emotions from what actually appears in the eye. |
#1013: | Words won't change an emotionally-driven behavior. Only boundaries can. http://bit.ly/hRjxO (Kilroy Cafe #22) Addiction, dom. violence, etc. |
#1058: | "Old" is the state of being so trapped in your past emotional investments that you can no longer significantly change. |
#1089: | Intelligence or stupidity is almost always a matter of controlling or not controlling your emotions. |
#1252: | Artistic maturity is the trading of trite and simplistic emotions for complex and layered ones. |
#1287: | Shower at a North Dakota truck stop: $6. That minty fresh feeling: priceless. |
#1326: | No one is asking, "Why couldn't Michael Jackson sleep?" There were existential reasons. He was caught in his own emotional conundrums. |
#1479: | Belief follows necessity. People believe what they need to believe to support their ego and make their circumstances emotionally tolerable. |
#1547: | Most adults are a minefield of poor choices and conflicting emotions. You must carefully watch your words to avoid destabilizing them. |
#1563: | Intelligence is a test of how well you can separate logic from emotion in the decisions that matter most. |
#1571: | Most people's lives are a minefield of poor choices and conflicting emotions propped up by delusion and wishful thinking. |
#1577: | Emotional neediness may provide motivation but it kills creative detachment. You are most creative when you need nothing. |
#1600: | The most powerful human emotion is regret: inner shame for ones own mistakes. Grief doesn't go on forever, but regret can! |
#2018: | "When a male's emotional growth is stunted, he'll sometimes compensate by using his vehicle to prove his masculinity" - OTS via @nictate |
#2601: | The main social tool of children is emotional manipulation. They cry and we come. |
#2827: | Health care emotions: No one should suffer from a treatable disease. The reality: There will never be enough resources to treat everyone. |
#2894: | Photos don't lie? Wrong! They usually contain distortions of space and time, conveying different feelings than were present when taken. |
#3029: | Belief follows emotional necessity. Evidence is backfilled later to support the belief. |
#3084: | Macintosh users have the warm and fuzzy feeling of being involved in a progressive social movement. PC users just get work done. |
#3275: | No great fraud can be blamed entirely on deception. The victim also conned himself, ignoring the warning signs to serve his emotional need. |
#3297: | Latest news flash from Hollywood is that the people who make their living pretending to be other people are emotionally screwed up. Duh! |
#3352: | Established citizens, with homes, marriages, families and careers, live in fragile emotional worlds you must tiptoe around in when visiting. |
#3408: | Each of us has an emotional immune system that attacks and destroys any new ideas that conflict with what we have already committed to. |
#3452: | There is no friend, no matter how close, with whom we can share everything we are thinking and feeling. There will always be barriers. |
#3467: | histrionic — given to overly dramatic emotional behavior. Usually exhibited by only one romantic partner, the other being their enabler. |
#3472: | Adults are trapped by past investments to which they are emotionally committed. This restricts their vision and their freedom to explore. |
#3473: | The more emotionally trapped a person is, the more repetitive and ritualized his activities. He'll "explore" only within a narrow range. |
#3474: | The ritualized activities of old age aren't a function of the body but of accumulated emotional investments restricting any alternatives. |
#3675: | People believe what they have to believe to avoid disrupting their existing emotional investments. |
#3763: | Humans are natural hoarders. They infuse objects with emotional meaning and don't want to part with them. |
#3772: | People who cannot express their true feelings to the world are dangerous. Their frustration becomes subversive aggression. |
#3845: | Television is the force-feeding of experiences, much faster than your emotional system can digest them. |