Quotes About Emotions

Her hair has turned quite gold from grief.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Hearts are made to be broken.

I can't find my mother

You are a guesthouse and your guests for but a few days are alternatively sorrows and joys.

encontré una tacita de porcelana que se había caído de un poste. Recordé que cuando eramos chicos las rompíamos con la honda y eso me dio un poco de tristeza. Sin saber por qué me la guardé en el bolsillo y la fui acariciando con los dedos mientras pensaba en los tiempos del colegio, cuando creía que tenía una vida por delante.

There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.

We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are; it may be an indication of how wicked we really are.

A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer meeting, but he never translates his emotions into action. Consequently a sentimentalist is usually callous, self-centred and selfish, because the emotions he likes to have stirred do not cost him anything.

Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking. A mood nearly always has its seat in the physical condition, not in the moral.

If we indulge in inordinate affection, anger, anxiety, God holds us responsible; but He also insists that we have to be passionately filled with the right emotions.

God wants you to understand that it is a life of faith, not a life of emotional enjoyment of His blessings.

Discouragement is disillusioned self-love, and self-love may be love for my devotion to Jesus— not love for Jesus Himself.

If I love my Lord, I have no business being guided by natural emotions—I have to feed His sheep. We will not be delivered or released from His commission to us. Beware

When we are in an unhealthy condition either physically or emotionally, we always look for thrills in life. In our physical life this leads to our efforts to counterfeit the work of the Holy Spirit; in our emotional life it leads to obsessions and to the destruction of our morality; and in our spiritual life, if we insist on pursuing only thrills, on mounting up "with wings like eagles" (Isaiah 40:31), it will result in the destruction of our spirituality.

The love of God pays no attention to my prejudices caused by my natural individuality. If I love my Lord, I have no business being guided by natural emotions—I have to feed His sheep.

If we were never depressed, we would not be alive—only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation.

Have you deliberately committed your will to Jesus Christ? It is a transaction of the will, not of emotion; any positive emotion that results is simply a superficial blessing arising out of the transaction. If you focus your attention on the emotion, you will never make the transaction. Do not ask God what the transaction is to be, but make the determination to surrender your will regarding whatever you see, whether it is in the shallow or the deep, profound places internally.

A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.