Emotions

"The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation."

"Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject."

"Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster."

"Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers."

"We did not start a fight with America, and we don't want a war with America. If someone launches an attack, though, we will respond. We will not take rejection or humiliation. We do not want to fight."

"Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat."

"A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East and many other regions."

"The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation."

"I see the at the humiliation of airport security checks."

"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

"There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger."

"Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder."

"In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables."

"What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God."

"There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror."

"Boxing is fascinating. It's good for the soul to be made to feel clumsy. I swank around during the week thinking I'm a big cheese, but you don't feel like that when you're in the ring with a chap who knows what he's doing. It's ritual humiliation. I'm going to be slugged about and probably killed, but I love it and have to do something to keep fit."

"I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity."

"The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people."

"The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West."

"With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure, no humiliation. So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do. . . ."

"With publicity comes humiliation."

"I'm not sure if I could bear to go on an aeroplane again. It's not my concern for the welfare of the planet. It's not even the long check-in times and queuing. No, it's the humiliation of the security process that has finally done it for me."

"The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it."

"Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure."

"This adoration of Mr Gandhi became so widespread and so vehement, that people all over India in villages tried to worship him like a god wherever he moved there."

"Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle."

"ADORE, v.t. To venerate expectantly."

"To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well."

"I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time."

"Zarathushtra denounced all forms of cruelty, destruction, and hypocrisy. Ahura Mazda was said to create only good and should be worshipped by good thoughts and good deeds only. Adoration was showed to “the supreme” by rhythmic verses called Gathas."

"One has to view the attitude of the Zorashtrian community towards this sacred symbol [fire-worship] side by side with its adoration of other sacred elements."

"Zorashtrianism is also known as Mazdaism from the name of the Supreme god, Ahura Mazda, and as Magism from the name of its ancient priests, the magi. The Three Wise Men of the Bible are believed to have been Zoroastrian magi, hence the Adoration of the Magi."

"The most famous Sufi form of adoration is a mystical exercise called dhikr. This refers to the systematic repetition of God’s names so as to attain continuous awareness of God’s presence."

"...for the Sufis, we are actually spiritual beings who are undergoing a transient human experience. It is in this context that we can comprehend the Sufi quest to experience God in the present world, to feel His majestic presence and to remove that separate human from the divine. This mystical quest precipitated the concept of adoring God. Adoration of God, in Islamic mysticism takes many forms. These range from various forms of ascetic exercises, self-mortification, vigils, protracted prayers, meditation to emulating the spiritual exercises of the Prophet Muhammad."

"The Sufi adoration of God is also expressed by the salat (ritual prayer), which is in fact, the second pillar of Islam… Prayer is seen as an intimate conversation between the human and the Divine....Rumi’s view, absorption in the Divine Unity is the soul of prayer."

"Persians call the Creator Hormoz, but also Izad or Yazdan. They pretend that the adoration of the fire reconciles them with the Creator, because it is the most powerful and sublime of the elements. The polytheists explained their adoration of idols in the same manner."

"The chief liturgy of the Zorashtrians is the Yasna, a term that literally means “sacrifice” (corresponding to the Sanskrit term yajna), and includes confession, invocation, prayer, exhortation, praise, worship, adoration, and offerings."

"The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you're cute', I'll say thank you, but I appreciate it much more when the other one says 'you make me laugh so much'."

"Zorashter explained that these other entities (apart from Ahura Mazda] were special gods but special beings created by Ahura Mazda to assist humankind and aid in the battle against evil. He called these beings, which he claimed were still worthy of human adoration, yazatas (which, appropriately enough, means “worthy of adoration”)."

"It is indeed the duty of every believer to love his brethren and be tolerant. Moreover, God has created for us our partners with whom we share love and affection (Sura 30, verse 21), yet all this love should always be exercised within its proper context. No matter how much we may love our children, our partners, or indeed God's prophets whom He sent with guidance; we should never love them as our love of God. Only the love of God is worthy of being elevated to the state of adoration. There is a very thin line between love and adoration."

"When at the time of awarding, men, with the help of truth, shall vanquish the lie; When deception and untruth - for long decried – of false gods and men, stand exposed, Then at the time of salvation, there, shall be full adoration of Thy Glory."

"The most satisfactory way [in Jainism], perhaps, at arriving any conclusion is to divide the subject of prayer into various elements, such as petition, intercession, adoration, thanksgiving and to note under each head the actual practice and the sometimes conflicting opinions of the Jains."

"Prayer on the occasion of feeding Ghosts If one wishes to be above all the Buddhas of the past, and future, one should contemplate on the nature of this Dharmadhatu essentially as the creation of absolute Mind. Adoration to the Buddhas in the ten quarters; Adoration to the Dharma pervading the ten quarters; Adoration to the Sangha in the ten quarters; Adoration to Sakyamuni the Buddha who is our master; Adoration to Kwanzeon the Bodhisatva, who is the great compassionate and pitying one, ready to save things from afflictions; Adoration to Ananda the Arhat who is expounder of the Teaching,... Adoration to Hoshin the Tathagata; Adoration to Taho the Tathagata; Adoration to Myoshishin the Tathagata; Adoration to Kohashin the Tathagata; Adoration to Rifui the Tathagata; Adoration to Kannoo the Tathagata; Adoration to Omito the Tathagata. Namu omitoboya tatogyatoya, Toniyato"

"Parasnath, a mountain in Bihar of great sanctity; it is the eastern, as Mount Abu is the western metropolis of Jain worship and pilgrimage. 10,000, annually, from distant parts of India, visit the scene of Nirvana or beatific annihilation of the ten of the 24 deified saints or Thirthankars, who are the objects of Jain adoration; and from the last of these, Parswa or Parswanatha, the hill originally called samet Sikhar took its better known name as Parasnath."

"Though it, Divyavadna (the Heavenly Avadanas), begins with a Mahayanistic benediction, “Om, adoration to all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.""

"Two inscriptions found in Greco-Bactrian Cursive Script found in Afghanistan mention the Buddhist formula of Adoration (namas) to Buddha."

"The Yemmei w:Guanyin:Kwannon Ten-Clause Sutra [Adoration to] Kwanzeon! Adoration to the Buddha. to the Buddha we are related In terms of cause and effect. Depending on the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha, Nirvana is possible which is] eternal, ever-blessed, autonomous, and free from defilements. Every morning our thoughts are on Kwanzeon Every morning our thoughts are on Kwanzeon Every thought issues from the Mind. Every thought is not Separated from the Mind."

"The whole mountain is covered with other shrines which the pilgrim, at some risk to life and limb, must visit. The rite is followed by adoration at the temple of Parsvanatha, and by the circuit (pradadsina) of the holy site, involving a journey of about 10 km."

"Vivekananda prioritized the adoration of an impersonal Brahman over bhakthi-centred, anthroporpic worship."

"Adoration of the Divine at all times is the principal activity of a true devotee."