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Quotes About Emotions

He would punctuate the remarkable things he said with silences, his extravagant gestures with absence.
~ Forrest Gander
Il vaut mieux écrire du rire que des larmes, Parce que le rire est le propre de l'homme. VIVEZ JOYEUX.
~ Francois Rabelais
You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Perhaps you can feel if you can't hear. Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts- just mere thoughts- are as powerful as electric batteries- as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got you in you may never get over it as long as you live.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Her affection for everything she could love increased.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
I'm lonely, she said. She had not known before that this was one of the things which made her feel sour and cross.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
When a man is overcome by anger, he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power over himself and over others. He throws away time in which he might have gained the end he desires. The is no time for anger in the world. - The Ancient One
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in—that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat, she mused. Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out, 'Oh, a horrid rat!' I shouldn't like people to scream and jump and say, 'Oh, a horrid Sara!' the moment they saw me. And set traps for me, and pretend they were dinner.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Uno de los descubrimientos mas extraordinarios de este siglo ha sido el que los pensamientos son tan poderosos como las pilas eléctricas, tan buenos como la luz y tan peligrosos como el veneno. si permitimos que un pensamiento triste o malo se introduzca en nuestra mente es tan arriesgado como dejar que un virus se apodere de nuestro cuerpo. Si se le permite quedarse, es posible que no podamos desprendernos nunca mas de èl.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
If she had cried and sobbed and seemed frightened, Miss Minchin might almost have had more patience with her. She was a woman who liked to domineer and feel her power, and as she looked at Sara's pale little steadfast face and heard her proud little voice, she felt quite as if her mind was being set at naught.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
If Mary Lennox had been a child who was ready to be amused she would perhaps have laughed at Martha's readiness to talk, but Mary only listened to her coldly and wondered at her freedom of manner.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
She had never felt sorry for herself; she had only felt tired and cross, because she disliked people and things so much.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in—that's stronger.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Lo considero un amigo, a veces sucede que se puede estimar a una persona aunque nunca se haya hablado con ella. Se las observa y se piensa en ellas, y se comparten sus preocupaciones.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everyone in the world understands it.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Não sabia quão abomináveis eram as pessoas que ficavam doentes e nervosas, e não sabiam que podiam controlar o seu mau gênio, sem precisar deixar os outros em volta doentes e nervosos também.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in—that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies. I scarcely ever do.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
They know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in—that's stronger.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
He felt the scent and the golden glow of the sunset light as intensely as he felt the dead silence which reigned between himself and Hester almost with the effect of a physical presence.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett