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Quotes About Emotions

I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.
~ Jenny Saville
Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.
~ James Frey
Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after audience.
~ Murray Louis
Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.
~ Vanessa Paradis
Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior.
~ Carl Jung
What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.
~ Maira Kalman
Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.
~ Sigmund Freud
How the hell can a person go to work in the morning And come home in the evening and have nothing to say
~ John Prine
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
~ Tim Minchin
They told me never fall in love, It never works out in your favor. You way too young and right now that's just human nature.
~ Mac Miller
When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love.
~ Monica Bellucci
The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Running is a quick trigger for a good mood. The great thing about endorphins, you don't have to be in great shape to get them.
~ Mindy Kaling
In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire relationship and your willingness to reenter it.
~ Martin Seligman
How you get work done is by exploiting yourself and your feelings, and sometimes people get in the way.
~ Carrie Mae Weems
No work is stressful. It is your inability to manage your body, mind, and emotions that makes it stressful.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.
~ Byron Katie
Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.
~ Zane Grey
I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
~ Laurence Olivier