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Quotes About Emotions

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.
~ Dale Carnegie
It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, if you allow it.
~ Leon Brown
All feelings derive and become alive, whether negative or positive, from the power of Thought
~ Sydney Banks
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
~ Tom Waits
Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.
~ Joan Baez
The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one
~ Thomas Chalmers
You are the cause of your own joy or your own misery. You hold that power. You are your own friend and your own enemy.
~ Swami Satchidananda
You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
~ Anais Nin
We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us.
~ Joko Beck
Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun than making others feel worse. Making others feel better generally makes us feel better
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
~ Martin Luther
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.
~ Sheryl Lee
We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us.
~ David Seamands
No man has any influence or power for good when angry.
~ J. Golden Kimball
Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
~ Irving Berlin
Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror.
~ Carl Jung
The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power
~ C. S. Lewis
A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as a teaching of our hearts. That's the power of story.
~ Marshall Ganz
I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries.
~ bell hooks
Happiness is a 'state of mind' which we ourselves have the power to control - and that control lies in our thinking.
~ Claude M. Bristol
I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
~ Isabel Allende
Our soul is governed by four invisible forces: love, death, power and time.
~ Paulo Coelho