I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.
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There is a time in the life of every predicament where it is ripe for resolution. Emotions provide the cue to act when a problem is big enough to see, yet still small enough to solve. By understanding your emotions, you can move adeptly through your current challenges and prevent future ones.
It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.
The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.
It is clear to me that one of the biggest obstacles we face as human beings is the pain we put ourselves through when we resist and wrestle with our emotions.
I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course, but it also pulls people away from a lot of trivial anxieties and past and future concerns and gratuitous preoccupations that we have, and refocuses us in a very intense way.
I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.
Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
If I feel strongly about anything, I get overwhelmed with emotion.
Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.
You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.