Quotes About Emotions

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.

I had little talent for happiness.

The goal of all goals is happiness, and our emotions are like road signs on that journey toward the goal of happiness.

One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.

Not only do we have a right to be happy, we have an obligation to be happy because our happiness has an effect on everyone around us.

Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?

Everything but happiness is neurosis.

The greatest enemies of success and happiness are negative emotions of all kinds.

When somebody elses happiness makes you happy, it means you are a person with a big heart.

Whatever you can do with unhappiness, you can do better when you're happy.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.

Happiness doesn't come from external circumstances. It comes from the inside-regardless of what is happening around us.

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness.

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

You can't buy happiness

Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.

Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it you're not even aware, only afterwards do you know you were happy.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

A person cannot make another happy, but he can make him unhappy. This is the main reason why there is more unhappiness than happiness in the world.

And then comes unhappiness, and one does not become unhappy either. One says, 'A black cloud passing. I am the witness, the watcher.'

No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.