O how can wicked men seem so steady and untouched with such black hearts, while poor innocents stand like malefactors before them!
~ Samuel Richardson
Man is slave of emotions when they arise, and master of them when they don't.
~ Raheel Farooq
Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious
~ Yann Martel
...two different kinds of Japanese psychotherapies, one based on getting people to stop using feelings as an excuse for their actions and the other based on getting people to practice gratitude.
~ Will Schwalbe
It’s not that I didn’t understand or believe the gospel before. I did. But the truth of the gospel hadn’t moved from my mind to my heart. There was a huge gap between my intellect and my emotions. The Puritan Jonathan Edwards likened his reawakening to the gospel to a man who had known, in his head, that honey was sweet, but for the first time had that sweetness burst alive in his mouth.
~ J.d. Greear
She felt whatever emotions she felt, but feeling was never a useful substitute for doing, and she never let the former get in the way of the latter. If anything, she used her emotions to motivate her and help her concentrate. The emphasis for her was always on doing what needed to be done.
Asking someone to deny their own inner reality causes further rupture.
~ Elaine Margolin
The sudden appearance of pain and pressure are not indicative of an injury, but of the presence of suppressed emotions.
~ Heidi Dupree
It is hard for people to think clearly because their emotional needs keep getting in the way. The trick is to make thinking clearly an emotional need.
~ George Hammond
All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.
~ Margaret Mitchell
The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm.
~ Sergei Lukyanenko
Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.
~ Susan Abulhawa
It is not what happens to you that matters, it is how you feel about it that does.
~ Shannon L. Alder
I recently read in the book My Stroke of Insight by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor that the natural life span of an emotion—the average time it takes for it to move through the nervous system and body—is only a minute and a half. After that we need thoughts to keep the emotion rolling. So if we wonder why we lock into painful emotional states like anxiety, depression, or rage, we need look no further than our own endless stream of inner dialogue.
~ Tara Brach
Amal,I believe that most Americans do not love as we do. It is not for any inherent deficiency or superiority in them. They live in the safe, shallow, parts that rarely push human emotions into the depths where we dwell.
Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.
~ David Nicholls
I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life.
~ Clive Bell
Love was something different. Love was pure delight, a fountain of emotions, sensual delights, and enjoying spending time together.
Offstage, I couldn't put things into words, and that was the one thing I'd always been able to rely on. Putting my feelings into words and praying they wouldn't be able to get out again.
~ Carrie Fisher
That’s what violence was: emotion leaking out from consciousness into the physical world, linking up with the muscles of the arms and shoulders and diaphragm and, inevitably, the face. Stifle emotion during an act of violence and the face becomes a blank, unreadable mask.
~ Ryū Murakami
The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.
~ George Eliot
Frustration, despair, angst, anxiety, hurt, grief, unhappiness, envy, jealousy, and all the other painful emotions are catalysts of change in our lives. They motivate us to do things differently, to change our status quo.
~ Kate Levinson
Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
~ Honoré De Balzac
Of necessity she went further in aversion than she had gone in love, for her hatred was not in proportion to her love but to her disappointed hopes.
Because people are more than emotions. People have thoughts and reasons for doing things.
~ Veronica Rossi
I don't think I've ever dared to write down what I see in the ruins of me, or tell in any detail the scars and all their secrets.
~ Ashly Lorenzana
there were worse things than feeling guilty, like feeling dead.
~ Lori Brighton
Adults were pack rats of old, useless emotions.
~ Reif Larsen
She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement.
~ Francine Pascal
Our senses and emotions are the great source of inspiration for creating compelling and interesting art pieces (books included). Each art piece, be it a book, a song, a painting, a photograph or a product should touch our senses and evoke emotions. Emotionless art lacks purpose and interest.
~ Serafima
I hate you!''That's good. Hate is a passionate emotion.
~ Stephenie Meyer
you feel what else is there to do in life apart from living? And even that is out of your control; it depends on an infinite number of factors. Everything is in your unconscious mind. Why sex desire arose in you, why you raised a family, how greed and anger entered you, why you were dishonest, why you accumulated wealth, why you made enemies – you have no idea! You are just like a puppet, whose strings are being pulled by someone else. You imagine you are dancing, but in fact it is someone else who is making you dance.Look closely at your life and you will find that you are nothing more than a puppet. How can anything real happen in the life of a man who is not his own master, but merely a puppet?
~ Osho
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
~ Johan Huizinga
In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.
~ Vladimir Kramnik
The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
~ Dick Cavett
My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
~ Ingmar Bergman
Humor is the secret into the audience's other ranges of emotions.
~ Kevin Feige
We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.
~ Alexander Lowen
Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification, it atrophies more subtle emotions.
~ Clive Sinclair
Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.
~ Phil Knight
