Emotions Quotes

But for a long time, and probably far too long, I had a secret wish: the adolescently romantic idea that there was someone out there for me; someone I hadn't met yet who would ask me on a date and make sense of my life. I harbored the hope, I'm now embarrassed to admit, that like a girl in a Lifetime movie, I would look into someone's eyes and find a reflection of my inner life. But sometime between my teenage years and the first years in New York, that idea had pretty well evaporated. I'd grown up.

~ Diane Meier

The actions and emotional responses of others are not your responsibility. You cannot rescue people from themselves. This is for them to do. — André Chevalier

~ Nikki Sex

It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every rational satisfaction your nature that you deny now will assault like a savage appetite.

~ George Eliot

I felt so fine I didn't once overanalyze the perfect emotion, budding inside. The one I'd always feared most.

~ Ellen Hopkins

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are free from the grasp, not of one mad master only, but of many.

~ Plato

We all have the same pallet of emotional paints. It is how we pigment them on the canvas of life that dictates our artistry.

~ Ged Thompson Liverpool Poet

Ego-generated emotions are derived from the mind's identification with external factors which are, of course, all unstable and liable to change at any moment.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Our hearts are wired for worship, and our worship is directly tied to our sense of hope.

~ James Macdonald

When the flow of a river is blocked, it overflows or breaks the barriers. Similarly, our emotions can get out of control if their expression is blocked.

~ Hina Hashmi

That's the trouble with good writers. Only the bad ones make you want to do the human thing and look away.

~ Nick Hornby

Never let your emotions get so high that they flood your common sense.

~ Steve Cross Crossbytes

The idea of our own rationality...was convincing to us only because we so wished to be convinced. To any impartial observer, could such a thing exist, the sham was patent. Emotion and instinct were the basis of all our decisions, our actions, everything we valued, the way we saw the world. Reason and rationality were a thin coat of paint on a ragged surface.

~ Karen Joy Fowler

I knew why love was always described with eternity. A single minute stretched out for lifetimes.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

Interestingly, do you know who is the most difficult person to love? It is easy to love friends and not too difficult to love those less fortunate than ourselves. It certainly isn't easy loving enemies, but sometimes the person most difficult to love is the one who is MORE fortunate than we are. The one who receives the promotion we deserved. The one who gets the recognition we desired, the honor we sought or the affections of the lover we had hoped to win. It is easy to resent those who seem to be more fortunate – those who “get all the breaks.

~ Steve Goodier

The journey of finding you can be scary all in itself. The journey to finding the real you start behind the walls of yesterday. Reaching down through the years of hurt can remind you of why you built the wall. However, the journey of finding your voice begins by taking the bricks down one by one until you find the strength to push the wall down. Then you can start over building an improved wall with a door for someone to enter.

~ Dallas Palmer

The fear of what might happen stops people but the trauma process is so beautiful and transformational. There is nothing to fear in our emotions, they will not swallow you whole - they will speak to you in profound ways.

~ Adele Theron

Aamir discussed the emotional journey he embarks on with each film.

~ Anupama Chopra

You can't plan for feelings. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it'll be okay anyway.

~ Rick Riordan

I think that emotions affect you as much as x-rays and vitamins and car crashes.

~ Douglas Coupland

If you are sad don't try to influence an environment but if you are happy attempt everyone you can reach.

~ Ben Bereng

We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

When consent takes the form of seeking to possess the things we wish, this is called desire. When consent takes the form of enjoying the things we wish, this is called joy.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

A moralist will be unsuccessful in trying to displace his love of the world by reviewing the ills of the world. Misplaced affections need to be replaced by the far greater power of the affection of the Gospel.

~ Thomas Chulmers

Love is a blend of heart and mind, it creates a euphoric fusion of energy and intellect, to induce a transformation in life as the Rays of Love gradually befall.

~ Harshada Pathare

Benedict’s hand clenched by his side, still tingling where it had touched her. He wished she’d let him do more. It was so romantic out here in the darkness; the cool breeze rustling through the trees and the moonlight showing faintly through cloud. They were completely alone and it felt like the sort of night where anything could happen. It was a pity that Tamsin didn’t seem to feel the same way.

~ Emily Arden

Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions, because the body always follows the mind.

~ Bruce Lee

One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well... just realistic.

~ Faraaz Kazi

Emotions are powerful, but they also change as quick as the wind. That's why the Lord says to renew your mind. Don't base decisions on what you feel.

~ Francine Rivers

Never underestimate somebody's silence. Lot more is conveyed through it. A person who respects human emotions will understand this better.

~ Stephen Manoharan

[If you] give into your [emotional] illusions, and you will find yourself lost in a maze with no exits, nor entrances, but winding paths that lead you in circles so many times that you grow familiar and comfortable with the very place you shouldn't be in.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Will is intention favored by emotions.

~ Raheel Farooq

But somewhere before the Renaissance they realized that it was impossible to live without love. Thus they created a new strand. The first of the synthetic emotions to ever be created. It opened up the possibility to recreate anything, including forging creation. We were on the path to becoming plastic gods.

~ Dimitri Zaik

Even a best fountain-pen cannot make a writer be a fount of eloquence, but fountains teach to sob with ecstasy.

~ Lara Biyuts

Attitudes are like mirrors, they reflect towards anyone that's looking.

~ Karl Kloppenborg

You forget what it was like. You'd swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away. How your temperature ran off the mercury, your heart galloped flat-out and never needed to rest, everything was pitched on the edge of shattering glass. How wanting something was like dying of thirst. How your skin was too fine to keep out any of the million things flooding by; every color boiled bright enough to scald you, any second of any day could send you soaring or rip you to bloody shreds.

~ Tana French

Managing your emotions doesn't mean you don't express yourself, it means you stop short of hurting others and sabotaging yourself.

~ Sue Fitzmaurice

There are pieces of me on the ground.

~ Markus Zusak

Today is felt to be the most complicated day in our lives and rarely in trying to deal with the issues of today, are we aware of the impact of the past on those issues.

~ Martha Char Love

Like any good Englishman, he detests emotions and prefers a healthy dose of denial and tea.

~ Feverishsea

Romantic love is the most selfish of all emotions.

~ Ellen Kenner