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Quotes About Arousal

The doubt sensation, also called the yearning sensation, the longing sensation, allows the mind to become more and more aroused without its resting on anything, to the point where pure awareness without content, reflection or desire can spring forth in a burst of light, an explosion of pure being.
~ Albert Low
For most of us, however, self-control issues arise because we underestimate the effect of arousal.
~ Richard H. Thaler
If you had a daily printout from the brain of an average twenty-four-year-old male, it would probably go like this: sex, need coffee, sex, traffic, sex, sex, what an asshole, sex, ham sandwich, sex, sex , etc
~ Kate White
I ran my tongue along the top of his underwear, letting it slide underneath. Then i shifted my body forward, lips moving back up his chest, until i was straddling him again.
~ Kelley Armstrong
To his consternation, her nearness made him slightly out of breath.
~ Ken Follett
So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.
~ Marianne Williamson
In short, you do not have to take the job that will create excessive stress and overarousal. Someone else will take it and flourish in it. You do not have to work long hours. Indeed, it may be your duty to work shorter ones. It may not be best to advertise it, but keeping yourself healthy and in your right range of arousal is the first condition for helping others.
~ Elaine N. Aron
Didn't I tell you about her? She stuck her fingers in her vagina and then rubbed the stuff behind her ears. She said it made the men crazy." "That is so disgusting," Alice says. "I know." "God!" "I know." "Did you try it?" she asks. "Of course." "Did it work?" "Not for me.
~ Elizabeth Berg
The sight of her was like a swift, cool wind through his frame, quickening his body, alerting all his senses, making him completely aware he was a male and she a female.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
His knee pressed between her thighs, bunching the linen against her woman's place, spreading her and rubbing into her folds. She found herself undulating against that knee, pleasuring herself with his hard, hot, wet body.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
first hot touch of his tongue, she trembled
~ Elizabeth Lowell
teasing is arousal without the promise of release!
~ Ali Vali
I had a few other things on my mind. Like if it was going to rain every time I got aroused. That was not cool. I guessed I could handle it so long as it rained other times as well. I didn't want the connection to be so obvious. Hey, it's raining! The queen must have gotten laid. Ooh…is that hail? Must have been into some kinky shit today.
~ Richelle Mead
but then he remembered that the cortex inhibits the lower centers of the brain, so that low cortical arousal allows the more uninhibited behavior of the extrovert, while high cortical arousal is inhibitory and leads to introversion. This explained why drinking alcohol, a depressant which lowers cortical arousal, could lead to more excited and uninhibited behavior.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
he got his testosterone in a tizzy
~ Debbie Harry
Well so long as you're awake, does it matter how you were woken?
~ Emma Donoghue
Eye contact creates wars, creates fights, but eye contact also creates arousal. I felt the weird, pointless tingles, and I read his face and his smile. I tried to look inside him, see what he was feeling, while at the same time guarding myself.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Was sheathed tightly, stroked by Derek's clenching muscles, swelling in its prince's chamber, even as Rico started to rock back and forth.
~ Amy Lane
My definition of anger that emerges from this study is as follows: Anger is the physical, mental, and emotional arousal pattern that occurs in response to a perceived threat to the self characterized by the desire to attack or defend.
~ Andrew D. Lester
Emotions originate as physical arousal designed to capture our attention and cause us to take notice of something around us. They begin as chemical reactions and sensations that we must then translate into words to try to understand
~ Robert Greene
Low-grade emotions continually affect our thinking, and they originate from our own impulses—for instance, the desire for pleasing and comforting thoughts. High-grade emotion, however, comes at certain moments, reaches an explosive pitch, and is generally sparked by something external—a person who gets under our skin, or particular circumstances. The level of arousal is higher and our attention is captured completely.
~ Robert Greene
Sudden Gains or Losses Sudden success or winnings can be very dangerous. Neurologically, chemicals are released in the brain that give a powerful jolt of arousal and energy, leading to the desire to repeat this experience.
~ Robert Greene
Inflaming Individuals There are people in the world who by their nature tend to trigger powerful emotions in almost everyone they encounter.
~ Robert Greene
If their heart rate increases a lot (a peripheral indicator of anxious, amygdaloid arousal), they are unlikely to act prosocially in the situation. The prosocial ones are those whose heart rates decrease; they can hear the sound of someone else's need instead of the distressed pounding in their own chests.fn9,48
~ Robert M. Sapolsky