200 Emotion Quotes

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Famous Emotion Quotes

There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient. β€” Ieyasu Tokugawa

Negative emotions are a call to action. When you feel them, it’s because you’re supposed to do something. Positive emotions, on the other hand, are rewards for taking the proper action. β€” Mark Manson

If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow. β€” John Gray

Humans have different emotional states that are here to serve us, if anything be redirected. Not to be tamed. β€” Isaac Mashman

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. β€” Pablo Picasso

It is emotion that allows you to mark things as good, bad, or indifferent. β€” James Clear

Sex is an emotion in motion. - Mae West

Sex is an emotion in motion. β€” Mae West

Emotions aren’t just mindless urges; they contain thoughts about matters of importance. β€” Martha C. Nussbaum

Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them β€” Paulo Coelho

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place. β€” Judith Wright

Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions. β€” Yoko Ono

An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts. β€” John Junor

Sadness, discomfort, frustration -- they are all valid human emotions. Why would we want to suppress them? β€” Magda Gerber

All learning has an emotional base. β€” Plato

The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions. β€” Donald Calne

Short Emotion Quotes

  • He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply. β€” John Buchan
  • Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. β€” Sigmund Freud
  • Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions. β€” David Borenstein
  • I got my eyes on you You're everything that I see, I want your hot love and emotion Endlessly. β€” Drake
  • Any person capable of angering you becomes your master. β€” Epictetus
  • My heart beats, echoes into the cold streets where nightmares and darkness begin to meet. β€” Sayings
  • Your emotions affect every cell in your body. Mind and body, mental and physical, are intertwined. β€” Thomas Tutko
  • Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion. β€” Jimi Hendrix
  • Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. β€” Plato
  • Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think. β€” Marcel Proust

Emotion Image Quotes

A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life. - John Hancock quote

A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life. β€” John Hancock

Emotion quote Sleep doesn't help if it's your soul that's tired.
Sleep doesn't help if it's your soul that's tired.
Never borrow sorrow from tomorrow. - Helen Steiner Rice quote

Never borrow sorrow from tomorrow. β€” Helen Steiner Rice

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. - Peter De Vries quote

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. β€” Peter De Vries

Don't let your emotions get the best of you and blind you from the truth. - Seohyun quote

Don't let your emotions get the best of you and blind you from the truth. β€” Seohyun

There is nothing more difficult to measure than the value of visible emotion. - Gertrude Bell quote

There is nothing more difficult to measure than the value of visible emotion. β€” Gertrude Bell

The key to success is emotional stability. - Warren Buffett quote

The key to success is emotional stability. β€” Warren Buffett

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. - Albert Einstein quote

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. β€” Albert Einstein

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves. - Carl Sagan quote

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves. β€” Carl Sagan

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. - James Thurber quote

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. β€” James Thurber

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion. - Jim Morrison quote

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion. β€” Jim Morrison

Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. - Stephen Covey quote

Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. β€” Stephen Covey

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. - Matt Groening quote

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. β€” Matt Groening

At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away. - Lakshmi Mittal quote

At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away. β€” Lakshmi Mittal

He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future. - Francisco de Quevedo quote

He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future. β€” Francisco de Quevedo

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing. - Nora Roberts quote

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing. β€” Nora Roberts

Uncertainty is the friend of the buyer of long term values. - Warren Buffett quote

Uncertainty is the friend of the buyer of long term values. β€” Warren Buffett

Emotion quote You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. Tru
You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control your that means everyone can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.

Feeling Different Emotions Quotes

You need to suspend your reaction when you feel like striking back, to listen when you feel like talking back, to ask questions when you feel like telling your opponent the answers, to bridge your differences when you feel like pushing for your way, and to educate when you feel like escalating. β€” William Ury

I'm profoundly changed. There's a bittersweet emotion that I feel from playing this role. . . . I want the world to be different because I was here. However lofty or crazy or delusional that may sound, I want people's lives to be better because I was here. β€” Will Smith

Fighters can say whatever, but what they are feeling inside, it’s totally different. β€” Valentina Shevchenko

Emotion quote Self-control is strength. Calmness is mastery. You have to get to a point where your mood doesn't sh
Self-control is strength. Calmness is mastery. You have to get to a point where your mood doesn't shift based on the insignificant actions of someone else. Don't allow others to control the direction of your life. Don't allow your emotions to overpower your intelligence.

Now, why is it that most of us can talk openly about the illnesses of our bodies, but when it comes to our brain and illnesses of the mind we clam up and because we clam up, people with emotional disorders feel ashamed, stigmatized, and don't seek the help that can make the difference. β€” Kirk Douglas

Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions. β€” Scott Ian

Maybe with your emotions and your feelings, someone else can say it in a different way than you would, which brings new life to the way you might sing it. β€” Jody Watley

Emotion quote In every walk with the nature one receives far more than he seeks.
In every walk with the nature one receives far more than he seeks.

I regard singing pretty much like acting. Each song is like playing a different role. I get very involved with my material. I feel a responsibility for the emotion it brings out in the listener. β€” Peggy Lee

I think there are differences between men and women. There is more of a softness to women than there is to men, especially when it comes to those more intimate emotions: feeling love, feeling familial connections. β€” David Bezmozgis

Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand. β€” Gary Lucas

I'm a very sensitive person, and I feel what makes me vulnerable. But I see that as a good thing. I really enjoy experiencing all the different emotions in life. β€” Gisele Bundchen

What Are Emotions Quotes

Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same. β€” John Denver

People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them. They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. β€” Frederick Buechner

Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about. β€” Matthieu Ricard

Emotion quote Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feeling and emotions.
Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feeling and emotions.

If you are angry, use it. If you are sad, use it. Because what else are you going to do with it? You might as well let it help you instead of hurt you. β€” Alex Hormozi

Success does not create happiness. Happiness creates success. We are happiest when we follow what is in our hearts. β€” Chatri Sityodtong

Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life. β€” Shannon Alder

...God will be 'all in all' (I Cor. 15:28) when we are no longer what we are now, a multiplicity of impulses and emotions, with little or nothing of God in us, but are fully like God , with room for God and God alone. This is the 'maturity' (cf. Col. 1:28) towards which we speed. β€” Gregory of Nazianzus

Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster. β€” James Harvey Robinson

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about. β€” A.L. Williams

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear - the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about. β€” Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

Full Of Emotions Quotes

The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion. β€” Pedro Almodovar

Mastering emotional control is crucial for steering your future; it begins with the right body physiology to experience the full spectrum of emotions. β€” Gary Brecka

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair. β€” William Dunbar

My definition of beauty is without rules. It can be the face of a beautiful 90-year-old woman that is full of stories and emotion. Beauty is what somebody's eyes communicate. β€” Penelope Cruz

I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves...I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of great feeling to beautiful, full sentences that convey little emotion. β€” Daniel Day-Lewis

Men need to be strong, but not bullies. They need to know how to not get emotionally lost in situations, but not be cold and emotionless. They need to know the full variety of emotions as well as thinking and acting. Not just the most limited ways of doing things. β€” Luis J. Rodriguez

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. β€” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The continual mismanagement is what keeps us from enjoying the full pallet of emotions that truly enrich us. . β€” Ruben Papian

Dramatically at first - that's how I handle emotional pain. If there were an award given for these moments, then I would have a mantle full of gold statuettes. Then I take stock and seek counsel from people I trust and talk myself into a state of reflection and remember that it won't last forever. β€” Danielle Cormack

They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions. β€” Virginia Woolf

Different Feelings Quotes

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. β€” Confucius

My message to women: Do what makes you feel good, because there'll always be someone who thinks you should do it differently. Whether your choices are hits or misses, at least they're your own. β€” Michelle Obama

There's a misconception about teamwork. Teamwork is the ability to have different thoughts about things; it's the ability to argue and stand up and say loud and strong what you feel. But in the end, it's also the ability to adjust to what is the best for the team. β€” Tom Landry

Different people are afforded different opportunities. I've been given some awesome opportunities, and I feel that I've always knocked them out of the park. But I've always been scaled back after that. β€” CM Punk

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. β€” Virginia Satir

In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore. β€” Ravi Zacharias

I felt then, as I feel now, that the politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organizing nothing better than legalized mass murder. β€” Harry Patch

We are the same. There is no difference anywhere in the world. People are people. They laugh, cry, feel, and love, and music seems to be the commons denomination that brings us all together. Music cuts through all boundaries and goes right to the soul. β€” Willie Nelson

Repetition is not repetition, ... The same action makes you feel something completely different by the end β€” Pina Bausch

The servant-leader is servant first... It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first. β€” Robert K. Greenleaf

Human Emotions Quotes

If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, why should he integrate animality into this sacred human emotion?...Is love incompelete without it?...Is love the name of physical excersize ? β€” Saadat Hasan Manto

The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature β€” John Bowlby

I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human. β€” John Trudell

I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. β€” Mark Rothko

Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself. β€” Thomas Harris

As for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, [and] steel their emotions against decent human sympathy. β€” H. P. Lovecraft

If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place. β€” Albert Ellis

Human beings are emotional amoral egoists, driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable. β€” Nayef Al-Rodhan

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. β€” James A. Michener

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. β€” Henry Beston

Feelings And Emotions Quotes

I have never known more than fifteen minutes of anxiety or fear. Whenever I feel fearful emotions overtaking me, I just close my eyes and thank God that He is still on the throne reigning over everything and I take comfort in His control over the affairs of my life. β€” John Wesley

Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go. β€” Mooji

The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect. β€” Karen Horney

My feelings are too loud for words And too shy for the world. β€” Dejan Stojanovic

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. β€” Brian Tracy

Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead. β€” Jim Morrison

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation. β€” Oliver Sacks

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. β€” Jackson Pollock

What does a good babysitter sell, really? It’s not child care exactly, but a relaxed evening. A furnace salesperson? Cozy rooms for family time. A locksmith? A feeling of security. Know the emotional drivers and you can frame the benefits of any deal in language that will resonate. β€” Chris Voss

Always be honest with your feelings, and don't let stuff build up. β€” Joe Gatto

Expressing Emotions Quotes

Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words. β€” Brian Tracy

I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion - and it definitely hurts me in some situations, and helps in some situations, like obviously writing and stuff is my favourite thing to do because I get to use all of my emotions and express them in that way. β€” Melanie Martinez

The eyes are the mirror of the soul. β€” Japanese Proverbs

When the heart is full the tongue will speak. β€” Scottish Proverbs

Cried like a cat. β€” Russian Proverbs

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words. β€” Arnold Schoenberg

Even difficult emotions can be part of good negotiation if you find a way to express them clearly and cleanly without attacking the other. β€” William Ury

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always. β€” Jurgen Klopp

True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion. β€” Angel Haze

Humanity needs more than merely information. We express original ideas, humor, and our personal wills. We express passions and emotions. A person's point of view conveys all of these aspects of identity. β€” Hideo Kojima

Range Of Emotions Quotes

I am a vegetarian because I realized that even little chickens suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and emotions, and are as intelligent as mammals, including dogs, cats, and even some primates. β€” Sayings

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence. β€” Daniel Goleman

When we are playing [games], we are stretching our emotional expressive ranges, loosening up our biochemical flow of information, getting unstuck, and healing our feelings. β€” Candace Pert

Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect. β€” Alain de Botton

Part of being who you are has to do with feeling your feelings, which means you'll have a wide range of emotions--not just constant sunshiny happiness. β€” Janet Gonzalez-Mena

Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have. β€” J. K. Rowling

Jealousy. Depression. Love. They pretty much demonstrate the whole range of human emotion. β€” Brandon Stanton

I can only approach it as a woman. Masculinity has been depicted in very black-and-white terms. There never seems to be a wide range of emotional definitions of men. β€” Collier Schorr

My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger. β€” Toni Morrison

It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected. β€” David Canary

Negative Emotions Quotes

Hatred, revenge, bitterness - these are negative emotions. The person harbouring those emotions suffers more. β€” Ahmed Kathrada

Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions β€” A. R. Rahman

Positive emotions cultivate habits. Negative emotions destroy them. β€” James Clear

Under the obsessive thoughts and plans, under the emotions, positive and negative, there is an ocean of peace. β€” Gangaji

A beautiful country is a dream-like illusion. It is senseless to cling to it. Unless the inner forces of negative emotions are conquered, strife with outer enemies will never end. β€” Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Left-nostril breathing shifts blood flow to the opposite side of the prefrontal cortex, the right area that plays a role in creative thought, emotions, formation of mental abstractions, and negative emotions. β€” James Nestor

Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. β€” Napoleon Hill

Insufficient sleep does not, therefore, push the brain into a negative mood state and hold it there. Rather, the under-slept brain swings excessively to both extremes of emotional valence, positive and negative. β€” Matthew Walker

Social media is designed to make you wish you were someone else, somewhere else, and with someone else. Curate your consumption and eliminate what brings negative emotions. β€” Sahil Bloom

I don’t care about what nobody say or how nobody feel. I’m happy, I’m living my life, and that’s what it is. β€” 21 Savage

Powerful Emotions Quotes

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength. β€” Charles Stanley

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. β€” William Wordsworth

What you believe is very powerful. If you have toxic emotions of fear, guilt and depression, it is because you have wrong thinking, and you have wrong thinking because of wrong believing. β€” Joseph Prince

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. β€” Albert Einstein

In all cultures, the midwife's place is on the threshold of life, where intense human emotions, fear, hope, longing, triumph, and incredible physical power-enable a new human being to emerge. Her vocation is unique. β€” Sheila Kitzinger

Once you understand what a messy, emotional, and destructive dynamic 'fairness' can be, you can see why 'fair' is a tremendously powerful word that you need to use with care. β€” Chris Voss

Positivity opens us. The first core truth about positive emotions is that they open our hearts and our minds, making us more receptive and more creative. β€” Barbara Fredrickson

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts. β€” Thomas Aquinas

Maybe the greatest power we have in negotiation is the power *not* to react. β€” William Ury

All you have to do is unite, mentally and emotionally with the good you wish to embody. The creative powers of your subconscious will respond accordingly. β€” Joseph Murphy

True Emotions Quotes

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. β€” Albert Einstein

To experience love, we must go inside. When you experience real love you get into a state which is beyond words. You are filled with a joy that goes beyond all emotions. True love is the love of the inner Self. β€” Swami Muktananda

After being taught sets and reps and working at it for a length of time you can't paint by numbers anymore. It must come from within. Any artist has an emotional contact with their work. A true bodybuilder doesn't just build muscle he creates muscle. You can't be a robot. β€” Tom Platz

True love - that is, deep, abiding love that is impervious to emotional whims or fancy - is a choice. It's a constant commitment to a person regardless of the present circumstances. β€” Mark Manson

A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience. β€” Leonard Ravenhill

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. β€” Arthur Dewar, Lord Dewar

We try so hard to hide everything we're really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most. People try to bottle up their emotions, as if it's somehow wrong to have natural reactions to life. β€” Colleen Hoover

The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession,' and its days are numbered. β€” H. G. Wells

There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are cheap imitations of joy and compassion - pleasantness and sentimentality. β€” Gabrielle Roth

Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that reinforce a perception of yourself as vulnerable and limited, or to remember that your true nature is pure, unconditioned, and incapable of being harmed. β€” Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Mixed Emotions Quotes

Social etiquette dictates that when in mixed company, one should avoid discussing politics and religion. As someone who is quite active on various social portals, I can attest to the visceral emotions that are triggered when these topics are broached! β€” Gad Saad

You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does. β€” Haruki Murakami

Treacherous people do not last only memories of their treason last.So will it last with emotions mixed, of love and hate for treacherous ones. β€” Amit Abraham

An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up then wither on the vine. You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does. β€” Haruki Murakami

Write about the emotions you fear the most. β€” Laurie Halse Anderson

This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste. β€” Ernest Hemingway

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life. β€” Albert Finney

It was a weird mix of emotions. One day, your best friend could be killed. The day before, you could be celebrating him getting a brand-new bike. β€” Jay-Z

I was seventeen years old, a married woman without real responsibilities, miserable about my mixed-up emotions, afraid there was something awfully wrong with me because I didn't enjoy being a wife. Worst of all, I didn't have enough to do. β€” Mary Martin

But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act. β€” George Orwell

Thoughts And Emotions Quotes

We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears. β€” Jim Valvano

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. β€” Robert Frost

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work. β€” Swami Vivekananda

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect. β€” Alex Grey

Acting in a scene is like paddling a canoe from a pebbly beach on to the river, the writer builds the canoe, and the actor provides the river. The river is the actor's thoughts and emotions. β€” Sanford Meisner

Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted with reflex hysteria but decided quietly, soberly and on its own merits. We need less emotion and more thought. β€” Richard Dawkins

If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions, thoughts, evaluations, and internalized sentences, they would find it quite possible to work calmly and concertedly at changing them. β€” Albert Ellis

The thought content of ghazals must be meaningful, related to life, it’s emotions of joy and sorrow. It must have the human touch, it should not be phoney. β€” Jagjit Singh

Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them. β€” Eckhart Tolle

The four cornerstones of the American political psyche are 1) emotion substituted for thought, 2) fear, 3) ignorance and 4) propaganda β€” Joe Bageant

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More Emotion Quotes

I suffer from depression. Severe cases of it. Not one case of depression, not a severe case, but severe cases of depression. Music is my only outlet, it's therapeutic to me. It's a release. It's how I vent emotionally. β€” Kevin Gates

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. β€” Albert Einstein

Sabr is not remaining quiet and allowing anger to build up inside you. Sabr is to talk about what's bothering you without losing control of your emotions. β€” Nouman Ali Khan

The life of a character should be an unbroken line of events and emotions, but a play only gives us a few moments on that line - we must create the rest to portray a convincing life. β€” Constantin Stanislavski

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us. β€” Richard Rohr

The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other. β€” Bertrand Russell

I think, being emotional is this thing that people think you're not strong. They don't look at you as a strong person, and it's weird 'cuz honestly being emotional has nothing to do with your strength. β€” Melanie Martinez

Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion. They are victims of their habits and emotions. But you can make your home a place of peace. β€” Paramahansa Yogananda

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude. β€” Carl Jung

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take. β€” Tony Robbins

You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel. β€” Johnny Depp

It is our duty to give meaning to the life of future generations by sharing our knowledge and experience; by teaching an appreciation of work well done and a respect for nature, the source of all life; by encouraging the young to venture off the beaten path and avoid complacency by challenging their emotions. β€” Paul Bocuse

I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I'd live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional ups and downs; because that's the price I'm willing to pay for a fluid, perplexed and exciting life. β€” Carl Rogers

Realize that your world is only a reflection of yourself and stop finding fault with the reflection. Attend to yourself, set yourself right; mentally and emotionally. The physical self will follow automatically. β€” Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. β€” Earl Nightingale

I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know. β€” Bill W.

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