Quotes About Emotions

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

I swear to God, if you saw me when I am by myself in the woods, I'm a lunatic. I sing, I dance.

Happiness is a decision.

As fire is not extinguished by fire, so anger is not conquered by anger, but is made even more inflamed. But meekness often subdues even the most beastly enemies, softens them and pacifies them.

Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

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Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don't let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

We need to live in mindful harmony with our feelings, not attempt to control them.

Compassion is a two way street.

One must understand what people are thinking, feeling and believing in order to enchant them.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

Enthusiasm is the way you trigger other people's emotions so they instinctively help and support you.

Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations,you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation.

Hearts can't be broken because they're made of marzipan.

We are what we are, neither a good or as bad as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul.