Quotes About Emotions

Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it is easier to maintain control.

An ignorant person is one who is tossed about between elation and despair by external forces and events.

When did anger, however, ever teach someone to play music or pilot a ship?

People are not disturbed by things themselves, but by the views they take of those things.

When you are feeling upset, angry, or sad, don't blame another for your state of mind.

No digo que no te esté permitido quejarte, sino que no te quejes por dentro

O senhor de si mesmo é aquele que possui o poder de conservar ou repelir as coisas desejadas ou não desejadas.

For what else is tragedy than the perturbations ([Greek: pathae]) of men who value externals exhibited in this kind of poetry?

Most of us would be seized with fear if our bodies went numb, and would do everything possible to avoid it, yet we take no interest at all in the numbing of our souls.

When you are feeling upset, angry, or sad, don't blame another for your state of mind. Your condition is the result of your own opinions and interpretations.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend its increase.

Remind yourself, "What upsets this person is their opinion of what has happened. Another in the same circumstance, taking a different perspective, would react quite differently."   Do not share these thoughts with the grieving person. Sympathize with them—even cry with them. Your tears will be outward, not inward.

We get angry because we put too high a premium on things that they can steal. Don't attach such value to your clothes, and you won't get angry with the thief who takes them.

When anyone provokes you, remember that it is actually your own opinion provoking you. It is not the person who insults or attacks you who torments your mind, but the view you take of these things. Do not be fooled by how things first appear. With time and greater perspective, you can regain inner peace.

At first, keep quiet and count the days when you were not angry: I used to be angry every day, then every other day: next every two, next every three days! and if you succeed in passing thirty days, sacrifice to the Gods in thanksgiving.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothin which may tend to its increase. At first, keep quiet and count the days when you were not angry: I used to be angry every day, then every other day: next, every two, then every three days! and if you succeed in passing thirty days, sacrifice to the gods in thanksgiving.

We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens.

ce vase, devenant désirable, était devenu mon maître; et à l'instant même où il s'était brisé, il avait encore assuré sa domination sur moi, puisqu'il s'était emparé de mes émotions. Il m'appartenait, je lui appartenais plus encore. [L'invisible-1] Milarepa

To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Empathy, alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs. -

To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him. 71

No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.