Quotes About Emotions

Learn how to feel joy.

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".

The secret to true happiness is low expectations and insensitivity.

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.

If you do not decide to be happy, very few people can make you happy. If you decide to be happy, very few people can make you unhappy.

The face that cannot smile is never fair.

Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.

Nothing outside of ourselves will ever make us happy, because happiness is an inside-out experience.

Why is it so many people are afraid to admit they are happy?

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.

Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?

Passively accepting your sadness is the same as forgetting to build your own happiness. Happiness is more than a mood. It's a long-lasting state that is more accurately called well-being.

Happiness is seasonal, like anything else

Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.

Learning to be aware of feelings, how they arise and how to use them creatively so they guide us to happiness, is an essential lifetime skill.

The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.

Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.

The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.

Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.