The duty imposed on intellect by Life is not to suppress, but purify emotions.

Raheel Farooq
About This Quote

This quote by the writer George Santayana reminds us that the key to happiness is not in suppressing but in purifying our emotions. The words of this quote tell us that it is the duty of intellect, not to suppress emotions, but to purify them. We have been taught from childhood that our emotions are bad and that we should stop feeling them. In fact, we have been told that we will be happier if we just try harder to repress them.

We have been told this so many times by so many people that we have begun to believe it ourselves. We have been taught to think of feelings as a bad thing and never a good thing.

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