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Quotes About Emotions

Many search for happiness as we look for a hate we wear on our heads.
~ Nikolaus Lenau
You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.
~ Gilda Radner
Both hurting and happiness make me feel more alive, but as I get older it seems that hurting's the low hanging fruit. So I pick it.
~ Ze Frank
Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.
~ C. S. Lewis
Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.
~ John Jay Chapman
If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
~ Victor Borge
Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.
~ Dennis Lehane
I don't feel like myself unless I run. It's how I deal with sadness and happiness. I need it. It's like therapy.
~ Kara Goucher
Once I wanted total happiness - now I will settle for a little less pain.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.
~ Bertrand Russell
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
~ Don Marquis
One's happiness is very largely a question of state of mind rather than the world you are looking at.
~ Geoff Dyer
Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
~ Oscar Wilde
Success doesn't necessarily mean happiness.
~ Ben Stiller
How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.
~ Malcolm Forbes
I want to protect my own happiness. I'm not an angel. I'm just a normal girl.
~ Ai Yazawa
We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Happiness and sorrow are twins, let them come and go like clouds.
~ Yogaswami
I cried, for happiness, for sadness, but most of all, for emptiness.
~ Daul Kim
To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.
~ Mos Def
Part of being who you are has to do with feeling your feelings, which means you'll have a wide range of emotions--not just constant sunshiny happiness.
~ Janet Gonzalez-Mena
Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy.
~ Maxwell Maltz
I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.
~ Ariel Gore
I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.
~ C. S. Lewis