Quotes about Emotions

“The heart is half a prophet.”

“The heart is forever inexperienced.”

“Emotions have taught mankind to reason.”

“Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.”

“When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.”

“It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.”

“Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.”

“The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.”

“There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.”

“If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.”

“Our emotions are only ''incidents in the effort to keep day and night together.”

“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”

“It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.”

“Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.”

“The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.”

“All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.”

“There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.”

“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”

“Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.”

“Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.”

“We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.”

“Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup.”

“You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes.”

“All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.”

“The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.”

“He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.”

“By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it.”

“You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.”

“It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.”

“If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions.”