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- Nov 07, 2020
Elation Quotes
The high points, named one by one.
Elation shows up in small, specific moments here — the incomparable feeling of a child sleeping on your chest, or the rush of getting into a school you barely qualified for and loving it anyway. Joy caught in the act, not described in the abstract.
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- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rather than writing about international events, I write about individual lives. There is elation and sadness, death and birth, love and jealousy, co-operation and betrayal. All the great emotional transactions that happen wherever people come together.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm appreciative of things going wrong. At first it sounds crazy, but how boring would life be if you just coasted along without any challenges? Without learning about who you really are through the process of going through the darker times? Without feeling the sense of elation when you reach even a small stepping stone?
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
The period that directly follows the dissolution of a long term relationship is extremely volatile, with emotions running the gamut from misery to elation to relief to terror.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020