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Quotes About Emotions

One day of happiness is worth more than a lifetime of sorrow .... Under ordinary circumstances, jealousy is a suspicion to the person who excites it and degrading to the person who indulges it.
~ Victor Hugo
I consider jealousy a humiliating and degrading feeling, and I shall never allow myself to be influenced by it.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Jealousy in any form will cloud thinking and form bad habits. Jealousy is an addiction.
~ Richie Norton
What is inspiration in strangers is jealousy in kinsmen.
~ Raheel Farooq
Jealousy is like a raging toothache. One cannot do anything when one is jealous, not even sit down. Once can only come and go. Back and forth.
~ Milan Kundera, Farewell Waltz
You can't be yourself within jealousy.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
He that is not jealous is not in love.
~ St. Augustine
If you're not at least a tiny bit jealous at this point, you might want to check for your own pulse.
~ Emily Matchar
In jealousy there is more self-love than love.
~ La Rochefoucauld
Millions upon millions will attain your ceremony, but don't think all of them are in a ceremonius mood.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
~ Harold S. Kushner
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
~ George Eliot
We hate the kindness which we understand.
~ Henry David Thoreau
You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness from a complete stranger will unstitch you.
~ Chris Abani
Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects upon stern natures. It is the spring rain which melts the ice-covering of the earth, and causes it to open to the beams of heaven.
~ Fredrika Bremer
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
Kind words produce their images on men's souls.
~ Blaise Pascal
When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
~ Antonio Porchia
Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.
~ David D. Burns
True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
~ Andre Gide
When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.
~ Glen Duncan
There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
~ Billy Joel