Positive emotions are not trivial luxuries, but instead might be critical necessities for optimal functioning. — Barbara Fredrickson
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. — Barbara Fredrickson
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. — Mark Manson
Positive thoughts lead to positive results. — Maria V. Snyder
Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. — Napoleon Hill
It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind. — Napoleon Hill
Positive things happen to positive people. — Sarah Beeny
Happier thoughts lead to essentially a happier biochemistry. A happier, healthier body. — John Hagelin
Elevated emotional states, linked to oxygen in their molecular structure, depend on oxidative states, impacting how individuals experience joy or arousal. — Gary Brecka
The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful. — Dalai Lama
A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results. — Wade Boggs
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. — John Gray
A positive state of mind is not merely good for you, it benefits everyone with whom you come into contact, literally changing the world. — Dalai Lama
Positive thoughts generate positive feelings and attract positive life experiences. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. — Mae West
At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away. — Lakshmi Mittal
He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future. — Francisco de Quevedo
Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing. — Nora Roberts
Uncertainty is the friend of the buyer of long term values. — Warren Buffett
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.
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. — 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. — 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. — Matthieu Ricard
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.
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. — Alex Hormozi
Success does not create happiness. Happiness creates success. We are happiest when we follow what is in our hearts. — 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. — Shannon Alder
In every walk with the nature one receives far more than he seeks.
Fighters can say whatever, but what they are feeling inside, it’s totally different. — Valentina Shevchenko
...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. — 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. — 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. — A.L. Williams
What About My Feelings Quotes
My experience is listen, see, feel - and then think about what you change. — Jurgen Klopp
My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint. — Joan Mitchell
I don’t sit around thinking about my titles and roles; I just do what feels right. — Meghan Markle
Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feeling and emotions.
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. — 21 Savage
Whenever I feel bad, I use that feeling to motivate me to work harder. I only allow myself one day to feel sorry for myself. When I'm not feeling my best I ask myself, 'What are you gonna do about it?' I use the negativity to fuel the transformation into a better me. — Beyonce Knowles
From the beginning, what I was connecting with in the gym was a universal energy source. I would just feel it flowing. Even when I was twenty years old, I called the gym my church. When I was there, it wasn't about being social; it was about doing my practice. I was in it. I was in the zone. — Shawn Phillips
I was joking the other day about how my real life feels like a TV show, and my TV life feels real - because, to be on Thursday nights on NBC, which is what I grew up with, has been such a big part of inspiring me. To be part of that tradition is really completely surreal, and I'm so grateful. — Whitney Cummings
I think people have a misconception of me, period. My life has been a whirlwind sometimes, but it's different to what people think. I definitely feel like there's a misconception about me and who I am. — Lil' Kim
My own feelings about the direction in which jazz should go are that there should be much less stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content, on what might be termed humanity in music and the freedom to say all that you want. — Booker Little
I'm just basically spillin' out my emotions to the world. 'Cause rap is about emotion. And I want you to feel what I'm feelin', 'cause that's what it's all about. — Ludacris
Positive Energy Quotes
In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. — Lee Iacocca
Please remember, that even in your darkest moments, you still have the choice to focus your energy on the positive and create a better life. — Andy Biersack
You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. — Abraham Lincoln
Life is very simple. What I give out comes back to me.
Today, I choose to give love. — Louise Hay
If anyone tries to bully you don’t let them. Take the positive energy form a ball of rainbow power and just, like shove it. — Ariana Grande
In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions. — Margaret J. Wheatley
You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination. — Ralph Marston
Positive inflation drains the energy from your life. Negative interest is an attempt to stop the flow of time. Channel your energy into Bitcoin and move forward toward the future you deserve. — Michael Saylor
Positive Feelings Quotes
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill
Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much. — William D. Hoard
Nothing good ever comes from worrying or sitting there feeling sorry for yourself... Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good. — Conor McGregor
Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself. — Neville Goddard
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results. — Dupree Jordan
With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. — Wayne Dyer
The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success. — Eric Thomas
If you can't do anything about it then let it go. Don't be a prisoner to things you can't change. — Tony Gaskins
Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it. — Nicholas Sparks
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. — Helen Keller
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 ? — Saadat Hasan Manto
The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature — 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. — 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. — Mark Rothko
Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself. — 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. — 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. — 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. — Nayef Al-Rodhan
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. — 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. — Henry Beston
Negative Emotions Quotes
Hatred, revenge, bitterness - these are negative emotions. The person harbouring those emotions suffers more. — 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 — A. R. Rahman
Under the obsessive thoughts and plans, under the emotions, positive and negative, there is an ocean of peace. — 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. — 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. — James Nestor
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. — 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. — Sahil Bloom
I’m kind of polarizing. People either like me or they hate me. There’s not a lot of people in between. — Charles Hoskinson
I know there’s a lot of emotion going into a fight, but everything in a fight – none of it comes out of an evil heart. — Holly Holm
If I play a bad game, I know I played a bad game. If I play a good game, I know I played a good game. So I don’t need anyone to tell me if I did good or bad – because I know it. — Paul Pogba
Positive Psychology Quotes
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius
The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also building the best qualities in life. — Martin Seligman
Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging. — Marsha M. Linehan
People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them. — Gordon Allport
When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity. — Martin Seligman
Positive people are able to maintain a broader perspective and see the big picture which helps them identify solutions where as negative people maintain a narrower perspective and tend to focus on problems. — Barbara Fredrickson
A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do. — Martin Seligman
If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don't rush the position; instead you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg you for a draw — Jeremy Silman
We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions. — Brené Brown
Different Emotions Quotes
When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low. When resentment rides high, but emotion won't grow...and we're changing our ways, taking different roads. Love will tear us apart. — Ian Curtis
Winners don't do different things.They do things differently — Shiv Khera
Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Re-establish contact with a slice of eternity. — Etty Hillesum
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. — William Ury
I am a person that believes in different emotions with music. Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind. — Cam Newton
Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care... -Wintergirls — Laurie Halse Anderson
If you’re a gazelle, you don’t have a very complex emotional life, despite being a social species. But primates are just smart enough that they can think their bodies into working differently. It’s not until you get to primates that you get things that look like depression. — Robert M. Sapolsky
People cheat on each other in a hundred different ways: indifference, emotional neglect, contempt, lack of respect, years of refusal of intimacy. Cheating doesn't begin to describe the ways that people let each other down. — Esther Perel
You can't blend in when you were born to stand out. — R. J. Palacio
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. — Will Smith
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. — Booker T. Washington
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. — Mother Teresa
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending. — Drake
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives! — Shimon Peres
Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change. — Buddha
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. — John Wesley
Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go. — 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. — Karen Horney
My feelings are too loud for words
And too shy for the world. — 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. — Brian Tracy
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. — Pedro Almodovar
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. — 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. — Oliver Sacks
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. — 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. — Chris Voss
It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. — Swami Vivekananda
If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking. — T. D. Jakes
Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. — Dalai Lama
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. — John Lennon
Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds. — Buddha
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. — Roald Dahl
You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind. — Emmet Fox
Positivity And Happiness Quotes
If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you. — Paramahansa Yogananda
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. — Immanuel Kant
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. — Henry David Thoreau
The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. — Norman Vincent Peale
Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. — Mary Lou Retton
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart. — Zig Ziglar
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps. — Ronald Reagan
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. — Leo Tolstoy
Positive Experiences Quotes
If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world. — Sydney Banks
What we experience is our own concept of things. That is why no two people see quite the same world, and why, in many cases, different people see such different worlds. To put it another way, we make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts. — Emmet Fox
When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience. — Warren Buffett
Everything is falling together perfectly, even though it looks as if some things are falling apart. Trust in the process you are now experiencing. — Neale Donald Walsch
Disney was, like, such an amazing experience always for me, such a huge part of my life. — Jake Paul
Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. Empathy, however, calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Don't focus on what's wrong. Things may not be perfect, but be grateful for the opportunity to experience each day. Live each day like it could be your last. — Joel Osteen
The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience. — Mark Manson
We seek the fulfillment of strong romantic relationships and friendships, yet striving too hard to achieve security in such relationships stifles them; their flourishing depends on a certain degree of not being protected, of being open to experiences both negative and positive. — Oliver Burkeman
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. — 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. — 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. — 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. — 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. — 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. — 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. — 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. — 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. — 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. — 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. — 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. — 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. — 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. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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. — Bill W.
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