Definition of Emotion

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Emotion

A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body.

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Emotion Quotations

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
Mark Twain

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost

Sex is emotion in motion.
Mae West

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
Mae West

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
Dale Carnegie

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Plato

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.
Jim Morrison

Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Earl Nightingale

Emotion Translations

emotion in Afrikaans is emosie, aandoening
emotion in Dutch is gewaarwording, aandoening
emotion in Italian is commozione

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