Emotion
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Birds flyin' high
you know how I feel
Sun in the sky
you know how I feel
Breeze driftin' on by
you know how I feel
—Nina Simone
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I feel
emotional landscapes.
—Björk
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My joy is like spring,
so warm it makes flowers bloom
all over the earth.
My pain is like a river of tears,
so vast it fills the four oceans.
—Thich Nhat Hanh
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All my feelings rose today.
—Bush
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
—Audre Lorde
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I know the feeling
It is the real thing
The essence of the truth
—Faith No More
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I don't know how to feel
but I wanna try.
—Billie Eilish
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Feelings are much like waves: we can't stop them from coming, but we can choose which ones to surf.
—Jonatan Mårtensson
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What's runnin' through my mind
comes through in my walk
True feelings are shown
from the way that I talk
—MCA
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The more emotion I put into it
The harder I rock.
—O.C.
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You must do what you feel is right, of course.
—Obi-Wan Kenobi
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Feel it.
—Yoda
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Streetlights, people
Livin' just to find emotion
—Journey
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It's more than a feeling
when I hear that old song
they used to play
—Boston
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My heart wants to sing
every song it hears.
—The Sound of Music
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