Dynamics
Before I die, I shall leave a will, because if you want something done, sentimentality is effective. (John Cage)
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness. (Erich Fromm)
Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child - on a field-mouse instead of a human soul. (Elbert Hubbard)
Acquisition means life to miserable mortals. (Hesiod)
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. (Henri Frédéric)
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. (Hegel)
Seeing's believing, but feeling's the truth. (Thomas Fuller)
The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation. (André Gide)
Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future. (Alfred North Whitehead)