Quotes About Emotions

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure

Diets are essentially traning courses in how to feel fat and feel like a failure

To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.

If I had feelings, I probably wouldn't have even survived.

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

The only failure is not knowing how to be happy."---My Story

Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.

Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.

I've seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn't make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.

I cannot sing the old songs, I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish tears would flow.

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but having no outlet, it implodes in a great fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul.

Mindless fear is greater than mindful fear.

If someone calls you a failure it's more than likely they feel like one.

Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.

God will test you because He wants you to mature. He wants you to develop a walk with Him that is not based on your fluctuating emotions, but on your commitment to Him as you learn to walk by faith.

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

Strength means...acknowledging each of those feelings, your questions and ideas and faith and terror, and meeting what comes with the full force of your heart.

Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.