Quotes About Emotions

We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.

Be master of your own thought which drives strength, not slave of emotion which makes you malleable to break at any point.

While others may break your heart, they cannot make you live in misery. You control your emotions and, while the hurt can be overwhelming, you have the ability to move on and live to love another day.

Exercise control over your thoughts and emotions. There's only one thing you can completely control in life and that's your thinking. Master your mind and the world is yours

Allowing yourself to think and feel what you definitely are scared or hesitant of, will take you right to the heart of what you need to work out .

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

He who reigns within himself, and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

A powerful person is not he who out-wrestles others. A powerful person is he who can control himself when angry.

A person who has mastered his ability to control his emotions can master anything.

Try to manage your anger since people can't manage their stupidity.

Being aware that we create our emotions and that we can change the criteria in our mind is a big shift in responsibility and power over our happiness.

It is up to you to make yourself happy. No one can make you unhappy unless you let them.

When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.

We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves.

If I let you go, it doesn't mean that I don't love you anymore. It means you are so important to me that I am willing to sacrifice my smiles for the sake of your happiness.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you're special too.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

Sometimes we have to run away from the people we love. Not because we want them to realize your worth, but for us to realize our own worth.

Don't make your tears so cheap that they start flowing for someone who doesn't care about you. If they have no value for your tears and emotions, atleast you do.

Never make yourself feel like nothing to make someone else feel like everything.

Memories have to be our most painful blessing

Being single is much better than in a relationship with someone who always hurt you.