Quotes About Emotions

You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.

I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart

Weep for what little things could make them glad.

I had A Lover's Quarrel With The World.

Lovers, forget your love, And list the love of these, She a window flower, And he a winter breeze.

My sorrow, when she's here with me, Thinks these dark days of autumn rain Are beautiful as days can be.

Life is too much like a pathless wood Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs Broken across it, and one eye is weeping From a twig's having lashed across it open.

The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?

Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in a breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.

Revisiting the music of one's youth is part of the reunion with self. Whatever your parents may have thought of the music, however the music may survive the test of time, if it was the music you listened to in high school or college days, then it plays forever in some ballroom of your mind. You can still mouth the words and do the dances.

Why isn't love easy? I don't know. And the raccoons don't say.

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts. . . .

We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be. Tears bring relief. Laughter brings release.

To succeed in the game of power, you have to master your emotions. But even if you succeed in gaining such self-control, you can never control the temperamental dispositions of those around you. And this presents a great danger.

friendship and love blind every man to their interests.

Do not fight them. Instead think of them the way you think of children, or pets, not important enough to affect your mental balance

Sadness of any sort is also seductive, particularly if it seems deep-rooted, even spiritual, rather than needy or pathetic—it makes people come to you.

You cannot repress anger or love, or avoid feeling them, and you should not try.

The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.

person who cannot control his words shows that he cannot control himself

The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often the source of the greatest mistakes in history—the wars that are not thought out, the disasters that are not foreseen

Learn to question yourself: Why this anger or resentment? Where does this incessant need for attention come from? Under such scrutiny, your emotions will lose their hold on you. You will begin to think for yourself instead of reacting to what others give you.

Be a flame of positive emotions and you will never be without a friend.

The most important of these skills, and power's crucial foundation, is the ability to master your emotions. An emotional response to a situation is the single greatest barrier to power, a mistake that will cost you a lot more than any temporary satisfaction you might gain by expressing your feelings.