My love for animals started before I can remember.
My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.
Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind - or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body.
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
Remember that feelings or emotions emanate from the more ancient, less evolved, lower part of the human brain, while thoughts are a product of our highly evolved, uniquely human, outer part of the brain.
Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.
It is said an artist spends their whole life trying to get to the place where their heart was first opened up. 'Rent' was that place for me.
In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry
What originates everything are the emotions, the feelings, what we call soul. Then the brain commands these feelings to the voice. The voice is just the vehicle; it's the very last step in the chain.
Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.
Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?
Everything I make starts very personally.
You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
I mean, music totally comes from your soul.
I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way.
Interestingly enough, not all feelings result from the body's reaction to external stimuli. Sometimes changes are purely simulated in the brain maps.
The love reflected from another person has its source in your own heart.
All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
Your thoughts cause your feelings.
the beginning of my history is - love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are only frank enough to admit it.
Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.
More than half of the complaints that patients bring to their doctors are emotional in origin. Most often, they include troubled or absent connections with loved ones.
A lot of music comes from a selfish place.
Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.
