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The coolness of Buddhism isn't indifference but the distance one gains on emotions, the quiet place from which to regard the turbulence. From far away you see the pattern, the connections, and the thing as whole, see all the islands and the routes between them. Up close it all dissolves into texture and incoherence and immersion, like a face going out of focus just before a kiss.
— Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
Maneck studied beggermaster's excessive chatter, his attempt to hide his heartache. Why did human do that to their feelings? Whether it was anger or love or sadness, they always tried to put something else forward in its place. And then there were those who pretended their emotions were bigger and grander than anyone else's. A little annoyance they acted like gigantic rage; where a smile or chuckle will do, they laughed hysterically. Either way, it was dishonest.
— Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be sure to have some tomorrow.
— José Saramago
Lacking a shared language, emotions are perhaps our most effective means of cross-species communication. We can share our emotions, we can understand the language of feelings, and that's why we form deep and enduring social bonds with many other beings. Emotions are the glue that binds.
— Marc Bekoff, The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter
Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and himself. Nobody else much entered into it. After the people came into it he was, of course, a different man. Everything had changed then and he was no longer the virgin, with the virgin's right to insist upon platonic love. Life, in time, takes every maidenhead, even if it has to dry it up; it does not matter how the owner wants to keep it. Up to then he had been the young idealist. But he could not stay there. Not after the other people entered into it.
— James  Jones, From Here to Eternity
You know he loves you, right? (Amanda)Yeah, but emotions don't have brains. (Ash)- About Nick
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Seize the Night
Joy, like love, is an impenetrable, God-given state of being. The distinctions between joy and happiness and love and affection are important ones under the notion that happiness is an 'iffy' emotion, a highly dependent feeling both aroused and destroyed by external conditions apart from God. And the distinction between love and affection is parallel to such.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
I'm the girl who never gets angry and never wants anything, and that's why my family is still alive.
— Rosamund Hodge, Gilded Ashes
‎Man is never his emotions and that all feelings are ephemeral- that no one is truly genuinely ecstatic, sad, angry or passionately in love forever, which means emotions are never to be trusted.
— Lourd de Veyra
Like most humanoids, I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the "monkey mind"--the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl. From the distant past to the unknowable future, my mind swings wildly through time, touching on dozens of ideas a minute, unharnessed and undisciplined. This in itself is not necessarily a problem; the problem is the emotional attachment that goes along with the thinking. Happy thoughts make me happy, but-whoop!-how quickly I swing again into obsessive worry, blowing the mood; and then it's all over again; and then my mind decides it might be a good time to start feeling sorry for itself, and loneliness follows promptly. You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
There were those emotions down there, and though she couldn't quite feel them, they were strong and she feared them. It was like watching a thunderhead from high up in a plane, and though you weren't under it, you knew how it would feel if you were. You knew you'd have to land eventually.
— Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting
But emotions were, indeed, wild horses and they demanded to be heard. Brida let them run free for a while until they grew tired
— Paulo Coelho, Brida
The confusing lesson whipped Frankie's anger into something she had never felt before. It was like an emotional meringue - the airy feeling of loneliness topped with the hard crisp of injustice. Yet its taste was far from sweet.
— Lisi Harrison, Monster High
It’s very difficult sometimes to put into words one’s feelings, especially when one is not quite certain what those feelings are. (Catherine)
— Cynthia Wicklund, In the Garden of Temptation
Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.
— Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions
Your personal dignity was always more important to you than mere emotion, wasn't it?
— Rachel Caine, Bitter Blood
Our emotions can be either corrupted or elevated. Human love was not created to be without premeditated purpose.
— Manis Friedman, Doesn't Anyone Blush Anymore: Love, Marriage and the Art of Intimacy
Ciss says, 'People have less emotions than actors think they have. For much of the time we hide our emotions, we haven't time for emotions. Our brains work so much faster than our emotions.
— Antony Sher, Year of the King: An Actor's Diary and Sketchbook
It is an infirmity of our nature to mingle our interests and prejudices with the operation of our reasoning powers, and attribute to the objects of our likes and dislikes qualities they do not possess and effects they can not produce.
— Andrew Jackson
Never let yourself be swayed by emotions,' her mother had said. 'Emotions are fleeting. They come and go. But reality stays with you forever.
— Monica Fairview, The Other Mr. Darcy
Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it so easy that one hardly distinguishes the order from its execution. Yet mind is mind and hand is body. The mind orders the mind to will. The recipient of the order is itself, yet it does not perform it.
— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
The emotional states are liberated inside water, we calm down emotionally, we become more sensitive, we are able to "touch" deeper ourselves and other beings. Empathy is echoing back to us giving subtle vibrations from the realm of the senses. Find your water ~
— Grigoris Deoudis
If you believe everything you feel is an illusion then you’re delusional. Your emotion is part you. You’re made with it. Denying it and thinking it is all your mind, is denying your existence.
— Ann Marie Aguilar
Haydon had found his charm again. He could do that at the drop of a hat. He drew you and he repelled you. I remember that exactly. He danced all ways for you, playing your emotions against each other because he had none of his own.
— John le Carré, The Secret Pilgrim
We move in response to our conversation partner’s face, and our brain also fires as we move those muscles and stirs the passions. Paralyzing the face is idiotic.
— John M. Gottman
The goal with hostages is to gradually lower expectations; in nonhostage crises, it's to lower emotions.
— Dave Cullen, Columbine
...our memory is enhanced by the emotion attending the event. The more intense the feelings the more accessible to the memory is the event. Few of us live lives so emotionally charged that we can truly, accurately retrieve all of it. ...Often only our crisis events are preserved with strong emotions. For our own survival we can't forget them, and then we too easily forget the good stuff.
— Robert Dykstra, She Never Said Good-Bye
Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.
— Ronald A. Heifetz, The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
Politicians and others are stuck in a horrible world where being emotional in any way counts as being unbalanced, and unable to think clearly. For me, emotions are thought.
— Hofesh Shechter
.....Her eyebrows are the living example of nature.
— Farooq A. Shiekh
Fear is an emotion you control, not the other way around. We control fear when we let it go.
— Elliot Kay, Its Your Right To Be Wrong: Overcome your fear of making MISTAKES today
I don’t want my ‘part’ taken! I haven’t ‘got’ a part! I hate the stupid geometrical figures by which people try to understand the emotions of others, imposing hard straight lines - or ‘sides’ as they call them - onto tender curvaceous human beings who have none.
— Frances Partridge
Don’t fight with your enemy’s brains, fight with his heart
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom
Jealousy is perhaps the most involuntary of all strong emotions. It steals consciousness, it lies deeper than thought. It is always there, like a blackness in the eye, it discolours the world.
— Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea
Love is not an emotion. Love is the only constant in the universe, the substance and the truth of what we really are.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
Worry is perhaps the most useless emotion
—  it is the product of guilt after the time for action has passed.
When you decide where you turn next in life, look beyond your thoughts, do not trust your emotions, and listen to your heart.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
Everybody wants what feels good; and if we wish a symphony of attention from a bunch of caring people and a harmony of happy sounds during our lifetime, we must not act like dark horses, saving up our emotions, but be bountiful to all significant others. ( “Axelle Red “)
— Erik Pevernagie
The human brain is a cultural artifact. We don't load culture into a virgin brain like software loading into a computer; rather, culture helps to wire the brain. Brains then become carriers of culture, helping to create and perpetuate it.
— Lisa Feldman Barrett, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
In the vast void, her kiss tells me I’m not alone. She touches her tongue to mine, and a groan slips out. I think it comes from me. I’m dizzy and breathless and full of strange emotions that I can’t make sense of and don’t want to. I know the gist. I’m happy. This is a high I’ve never been able to achieve through pills or booze or other people.
— Erin Watt, Fallen Heir
To recognize that the Psalms call us to pray and sing at the intersections of the times--of our time and God's time, of the then, and the now, and the not yet--is to understand how those emotions are to be held within the rhythm of a life lived in God's presence.
— N.T. Wright, The Case for the Psalms: Why They Are Essential
being a harp which the least wind of emotion from another’s heart could make to vibrate as readily as a radical stir in her own.
— Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Don't leave a trace on my shoulder. I am a burden to the world.
— Baali
On the wings of love I soared high in the sky, free as a bird feeling blessed that I could love once again. That tight knot in my stomach which always drained my emotions had suddenly disappeared. “I’m free at last ” I shouted with unbridled glee.
— Latika Teotia
But, despite everything, it was almost a pleasure to suffer those torments. I had crawled through life blindly and dully for so long, my heart had kept silent and had sat, impoverished, in a corner for so long, that even these self accusations, this horror, this whole ghastly emotion in my soul was welcome. After all, it was an emotion, flames were still rising, it showed that my heart was still alive! In a confused way, in the midst of misery I felt something like liberation and springtime.
— Herman Hesse, Demian. El lobo estepario. Siddharta
I was thinking about stabbing myself in the face—not actually considering stabbing myself in the face, but thinking that it would be a physical expression of how I felt.
— Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing
Too many men I know experience shame because society places pressure on them to withhold emotion: emotion and sensitivity is weak. I have found the opposite is true: emotion and sensitivity is what makes us strong.
— Natalie Brenner, This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life
You see those stars, which shines at night when the sky darkens it shines for you when your heart is blackened
— Marty Bisson milo
When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay upset longer than the experience lasts; for you'll have more mastery over your inner harmony by continually returning to it.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Words represent your emotional state, beware of what you speak! Restore your mental balance.
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Respect emotion!!!It is always valid.Don't just HEAR but LISTEN not with your demon
— Napz Cherub Pellazo
She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly blind, in her bed, an old lady. Reciting, her voice took on resonance and firmness, it rang with the old fervor, with ferocity even. She was teaching me one more, almost her last, lesson: emotions do not grow old. I knew that I would feel as she did, and I do.
— Eudora Welty, On Writing
Sapiens don’t behave according to a cold mathematical logic, but rather according to a warm social logic. We are ruled by emotions.
— Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Human life is inherently dualistic. It consists of or is explicable as two fundamental entities, including rivalries between subject and object, mind and matter, and conflict between the benevolent and the malevolent forces. Opposition in the universe creates a dynamic living universe composed of good and evil, body and soul. Human thoughts and feelings are the communal products of the conscious and unconscious mind’s interpretation of a constant flow of coded and symbolic dialogue.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Ian closed his eyes. Beth watched emotions flicker across his face, the uncertainty, the stubbornness, the raw pain he’d lived with for so long. He didn’t always know how to express his emotions, but that didn’t mean he didn’t feel them deeply.
— Jennifer Ashley, The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie
Emotions are but the face's maskThat can aid you in your every taskSome times they have to be shownAnd at times they are best thrown!
— Sushrut A. Badhe
If you need to scream, find a safe place, then scream.
— Scott Stabile
The more we practice mindfulness the more we understand the emotional dynamics of the self and others. Mindful emotions can create a positive climate leading to better outcomes.
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath
Broadcast your message, not your emotions...!!
— Akansh Malik
Carried to its final extreme, the logical end of this type of reaction to life is suicide. The hard-bitten kind of person is always, as it were, a partial suicide; some of himself is already dead
— Alan Watts
It isn’t so much life’s problems that challenge us but the emotional turbulence stirred up while trying to deal with them. People possessing the gift of emotional detachment are lucky in that their personal problems seem far less problematic.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
I felt the nauseous shiver in my stomach—everything from rage to empathy to morning sickness—that I had grown used to and now thought of as being love.
— Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy
The disowned part of self is an energy - an emotion or desire or need, that has been shamed every time it emerged. These energy patterns are repressed but not destroyed. They are alive in our unconscious.
— John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You
Though sometimes you need to explain yourself with bitter or better words, he who knows how to speak how matured he is with silence in his most tempting moment is truly a matured person.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I like to comepletly give in to the emotion. If i pretend I´m not sad, if I try smiling through it,and pretend like everything´s fine, it makes it worse. When i give in and let it out, I feel better.
— Michelle Madow, Diamonds are Forever
Welcome to the modern world.Here, emotions hide behind emoticons
— Bhavik Sarkhedi
Emotions are not good, bad, right, or wrong. The ﬁrst step to changing our relationship to feelings is to be curious about them and the messages they send to us.
— Lane Pederson, Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training for Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment Settings
Our emotions pull us in different directions. The stronger the emotion, the greater the pull. Feelings are not always practical, nor do they make any logical sense. That's just the way it goes.
— Lang Leav, Sad Girls
Yes, I value emotions deeply.Call me sensitive, call me weak, call me outdated, call me anything you may, but tell me the truth, can you deny emotions give life to life. If Emotions are an integral part of Being Human,Why do people suppress feeling them ?Does the bruising scare them ? Than I wonder who is weak ?
— Drishti Bablani, Wordions
Emotions are some merciless attention seekers you know.You ignore them they destroy you.
— Drishti Bablani, Wordions | Uns
Yes, I value emotions deeply.Call me sensitive, call me weak, call me outdated, call me anything you may, but tell me the truth, can you deny emotions give life to life. If Emotions are an integral part of Being Human,why do people suppress feeling them ?Does the bruising scare them ? Than I wonder who is weak ?
— Drishti Bablani, Wordions | Uns
Emotions cannot evolve through intellectual comprehension; there must be direct access to them, access that allows them to go through a transformation from the plane in which they actually exist.
— Shai Tubali, A Guide to Bliss: Transforming Your Life through Mind Expansion
From my new release Cry for MeThis is Mrs. Hazelton speaking to Maria"...emotions have no color, no culture, knows no prejudice and can hardly be controlled, so in trying to raise children we need all the help and resources available to us . . .
— Toni Mariani
You mean it's to be peace between you and Elizabeth until after the Tapestry?" cried Georgie, horrified. The prospect of a cessation of hostilities was appalling, for this warfare provided him with the excitement that no other occupation could hope to offer. "Isn't that a bit drastic?
— Tom Holt, Lucia Triumphant
Emotions play a vital part in the social transmission of news and information. Interest, happiness, disgust, surprise, sadness, anger, fear and contempt affect how some stories catch on and travel far wider than others.
— Alfred Hermida, Tell Everyone: Why We Share and Why It Matters
When you are filled with inner clutter, the chaos reflects in your personality as obsessiveness, confusion, disorganisation, broken speech patterns, insomnia, indecisiveness, and lack of direction. When your home and world are in disrray, you can't relax. It takes more energy to be in chaos because you have to keep track of all the junk. Eventually exhaustion sets in. When you honestly look at clutter and ask if it's necessary in your life, buried emotions come to the surface.... Toss what's unnecessary so that you can finally relax, and your remaining possessions will have a clear place to land.
— Brooks Palmer, Clutter Busting: Letting Go of What's Holding You Back
When love carries us away on its brittle wings, we are too intoxicated to comprehend its power. We just want to soar and feel its adventurous spirit. The realistic aspect of love is not that romantic.
— Balroop Singh, Emotional Truths Of Relationships
Let the one before you not witness your inner fight;Keep your chaotic thoughts and emotions tight.For now, it is your soul that I test,Which is where yourself you manifest.It’s high time you become truly wise;Learn not to fall to evil in disguise.Confuse the one before you, as you are confused;Never let your feelings be used or abused.
— Melita Tessy, Battle of the Spheres: Crust, Mantle and Core
I’m kind of a contagion cryer. You know how when one person starts yawning, everyone else starts yawning too? Or when someone vomits, the smell makes you want to hurl? I’m like that, except with crying.
— Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star
The problem is not the misunderstanding we have, but the understanding we have missed. We must come to come to a certain understanding; to understand understanding, we need to understand understanding and we must understand with understanding!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Be-patient for what was written for you was written by greatest of writers
— Altaf ul qadri
She faces him, trying to take a breath that's long and level, trying to pull all the slopping emotions back inside so he won't see them in her face.
— M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts
The problem is not the misunderstanding we have, but the understanding we have missed. We must come to a certain understanding; to understand understanding, we need to understand understanding and we must understand with understanding.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
When people have similar emotions, their faces also look similar!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
How could I admit that the All-American Girl's force field of stoicism and self-reliance and do-unto-others-and-keep-smiling wasn't working, wasn't keeping pain and shame and powerlessness away? From a young age I had learned to get over - to cover my tracks emotionally, to hide or ignore my problems in the belief that they were mine alone to solve. So when exhilarating transgressions required getting over on authority figures, I knew how to do it. I was a great bluffer. And when common, everyday survival in prison required getting over, I could do that too. This is what was approvingly described by my fellow prisoners as 'street-smarts,' as in 'You wouldn't think it to look at her, but Piper's got street-smarts.
— Piper Kerman, Orange Is the New Black
True emotions yearn for genre love of God
— Sunday Adelaja
The writer’s job is to arouse emotions. The stronger the emotions the better.
— Johan Fundin, Mr. Maniac
There was a hazy damp film in his eyes that I recognized from emotions in old movies, projected large on darkened screens.
— Alexandra Kleeman, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
I said this before: The only way to live a good life is to act on your emotions.
— Heero Yuy
Sometimes stories are too long and hard to tell. That's why Photography exists.
— Steeven Shaw
That's the most pathetic part of being a human, the emotions you don't ask for or want, they just rush you anyway.
— Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Love
Somewhere beneath the surface of this body, a fire, maybe even several fires, are burning. The flames within me are licking away the moisture, feeding on my blood so that my body resembles a land struck by drought. I no longer possess that fine solid sheet which used to conceal my veins and other inner parts as efficiently as anyone else’s skin.
— Jinat Rehana Begum, First Fires
Mind your mind! Check your heart! In the end, you shall realize that it was not just your heart and your mind which directed how you lived your life, but things that lived in your heart and in your mind were the true ink that wrote the story of your life in the best or worst manner!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
If you think that you gonna survive with this emotions... better stay home... there you are safe... if you expose too much of this emotions... soona people will use this as weakness.......If you can do something...Start as "I ignore myself on basic emotions..."...
— Deyth Banger, Problem 1#2
Affection is a much profound emotion, which is inexplicable but can be fathomed through our pores. It percolates down our skin slowly.
— Balroop Singh
Being a werewolf, an alpha more so, isn't about being aggressive over others but controlling yourself, the wolf's wild virus inside my DNA, and emotions that comes with the beast.
— Jazz Feylynn, Colorado State of Mind
Cortax: “Sometimes, life doesn't work out the way you wanted or expected, but that's fine. Keep your head up, chest out, emotions and morals in check and be proud of the person you are. Don't let those unexpected surprises keep you from reaching your goals. And again, be proud, like I am, proud to see my son grow up into a man.
— Michael  Rogers, Healing Monarchs
Still, through a complex combination of optimism and longing and bravado, you would round it up. While a cruder name for this process is lying , one could make a case that delusion is a variant of generosity. After all, you practiced rounding up on Kevin from the day he was born.Me, I’m a stickler. I prefer my photographs in focus. At the risk of tautology, I like people only as much as I like them. I lead an emotional life of such arithmetic precision, carried to two or three digits after the decimal, that I am even willing to allow for degrees of agreeableness in my own son. In other words, Franklin: I leave the $17.
— Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
She was feeling something: a tiny pinpoint of feeling. She shifted slightly on the bathroom tiles. No. Surely not. From a book?
— Lianne Moriarty, Big Little Lies
I am more emotionally attached to book characters than actual people in my life.
— Unknownimous
White emotions when fell in love turned red...-The Drenched Writer
— Shonali Dey
Trust yourself to be able to confront and work through your emotions. If you believe you can’t do it, you won’t do it and you’ll become stuck. If you believe you can do it, you will.
— Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
For intuitive people, it can be exhausting having to constantly manage other people’s emotional needs on personal social media accounts.
— Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
A Women can’t change a man because she loves him, where as a man changes himself because he loves her..
— Kumar
The secret to attracting guys is not just being beautiful, as it definitely requires more than that..
— Kumar
Aging masters emotions, but with experiences of aging
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
We all have problems and we all meet problems, but the biggest problems in life are nowhere than in our minds, attitude, impulses and emotions. The person who is able to master the mind, attitude, impulses and emotions is always bigger than problems of life!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Negative emotional states are a breeding ground for mistakes.
— Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
Is love just a butterfly? Love can tell us so many things about the deep waters of our inner self and the secrecy in the hidden brushwood of our emotions. ("Alpha and Omega")
— Erik Pevernagie
Replace fear of your own inner experience with a curious, gentle, welcoming attitude—free of judgment, self-blame, and aversion.
— Melanie Greenberg, The Stress-Proof Brain: Master Your Emotional Response to Stress Using Mindfulness and Neuroplasticity
Emotions invariably push you to take suboptimal decisions
—  One has to rise way above emotions in order to achieve something meaningful in life.
Other people had something I lacked something denied me. In my mental blindness, I had believed it was somehow connected with the ability to read and write, and I was sure that if I could get those skills I would have intelligence too.Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men. A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.
— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
I tried to understand you... I tried with the best codes to upgrade myself... but I more likely become a victim on myself.
— Deyth Banger, Code
The closest and most precious people in your life are guaranteed to make you feel the entire spectrum of human emotions.
— John Wayne Gacy
Godly despair cries out for perspective but allows the hollowness of loss to move the heart to seek God.
— Dan Allender, The Cry of the Soul: How Our Emotions Reveal Our Deepset Questions about God
The emotions you feel over and over and over again provide the vibrational cellular landscape that creates or destroys your health.
— Catherine Carrigan
This was progress. This was modernity: you could cover over the past completely. You could bury the old under a relentless surface of new, stretched from corner to corner.
— Lauren Oliver, Rooms
A writer observes. A writer records for posterity. The moments in the transience of the labyrinth of time that would go unrecorded otherwise! A writer records for value. A writer records for sentimentalism. A writer tries in earnest to carry the emotions and sentiments that make us what we ultimately are. For what are we? Empty spaces in an atom!
— Avijeet Das
When we move toward rejected emotions and surround them with loving attention, they quickly break into manageable bits until they are gone.
— Deborah Sandella, Goodbye, Hurt & Pain: 7 Simple Steps for Health, Love, and Success
Are you a kind of person who likes to keep all your emotions hidden from the people around you! Do you prefer restraining your feelings a little too much! In that case, you must know that too much emotional suppression can have catastrophic impact over your body.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Art of Neuroscience in Everything
It's emotions. Sometimes you feel, sometimes you don't. You can't force yourself into feeling something, can you?
— Sarvesh Jain, The Awakening Wisdom of Life: Probably the best Quotation Book in the world
Not all tear ducts worked the same. People, as Firdaus learned, cried the hardest when experiencing mixed emotions.
— Sihan Tan, this is how you walk on the moon: an anthology of anti-realist fiction
But there was something different about this bout of crying. It was calm, facyual crying. Good crying. Water cleansing the tubes, rather like clearing a gutter of leaves and pine needles. A way to get rid of negative energy and make room for something better. It was as if I could feel all the improper thoughts flying away, and new ones taking their place. Better ones. A fresh start.
— Jonas Karlsson, The Room
In real life, when emotions and sentiments are involved and the very continuity of life is at stake, there are no quantitative theories, linear programming, and applied mechanics available to solve those problems.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
Yes, well, rein it in, Prom King. British people have been successfully repressing our emotions since before your country was even a thing.
— Holly Bourne, How Hard Can Love Be?
Human emotion is not a linear experience. That which provokes emotion in one may provoke little, if anything, in another.
— A. Zavarelli, Ghost
Not every emotion deserves the same attention
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Highs must be followed by lows.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
Our emotional response is driven by the proximity of the events.
— Piyush Shrivastav
Our emotional response is driven by the proximity of events.
— Piyush Shrivastav
Don’t get shitty when I treat you as you are, a casual acquaintance
— Genereux Philip
Expressing intense feelings usually portends better results than emotional detachment does.
— Mark Murphy, Hard Goals: The Secret to Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Winston and his sister walked for a time in silence, each in an invisible, vibrating pocket of excitement.
— Eric Berlin, The Puzzling World of Winston Breen
Her voice was loud and cheerful, the way it was when nothing was well and she was determined not to show it.
— Stefan Bachmann, The Peculiar
Do your emotions influence You or are You influenced by your emotions?
— Ramana Pemmaraju
I was blind to the truth. Emotions do that. They make you a fool.
— Kate Avery Ellison, All Her Secrets
We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.
— Brené Brown
My only regret is that no one told me at the beginning of my journey what I'm telling you now: there will be an end to your pain. And once you've released all those pent-up emotions, you will experience a lightness and buoyancy you haven't felt since you were a very young child. The past will no longer feel like a lode of radioactive ore contaminating the present, and you will be able to respond appropriately to present-day events. You will feel angry when someone infringes on your territory, but you won't overreact. You will feel sad when something bad happens to you, but you won't sink into despair. You will feel joy when you have a good day, and your happiness won't be clouded with guilt. You, too, will have succeeded in making history, history.
— Patricia Love, The Emotional Incest Syndrome: What to do When a Parent's Love Rules Your Life
If emotions were universal, then in one sense he was not alone, never had been alone, and never could be alone....No pain or happiness was unique. All humanity drank from the same river of emotion; and by drinking, every race, religion, and nationality became one indivisible species.
— Dean Koontz, Dean Koontz: Key to Midnight / Shattered / House of Thunder
Poor feeling hijacks thinking for self-deception: to hide harsh truths, avoid action, evade responsibility, and, as the existentialists might put it, flee from freedom. Thus, poor feeling is a kind of moral failing, indeed, the deepest kind, and virtue principally consists in correcting and refining our emotions and the values that they reflect. To feel the right thing is to do the right thing, without any particular need for conscious thought or effort.
— Neel Burton, Heaven and Hell: The Psychology of the Emotions
I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to believe yourself. Feelings seemed completely unreliable, like faulty gibberish scraped from a Ouija board.
— Emma Cline
Life is full of hurts, and it always will be. As long as you live, people are going to offend you, hurt you, and disappoint you.But you needn't let their actions control your response and out-look on life. You can learn to rise above life's disappointments.
— Prince Akwarandu
To have a meaningful look on your face, you need to have a meaningful emotions deep inside you!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
They're talking as if nothing's happened, Soledad said to herself, and the jealousy ran from her ears into her heart, where it settled into her aorta and reshaped itself as longing and desire, the kind of want that makes one capable of poor but magnanimous decisions.
— Derek Palacio, The Mortifications
You can deal with an emotion based on reason, but who can control an unreasonable emotion?
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Emotion is created by a cause, whether that cause is factual or imaginary does not matter, as longer as the believer holds it as true.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Knock on the heart’s emotions and its gates will be widely opened, but nock on reason and doubt will come charging at you
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
I would've had an easier time if my emotions had all pulled me in the same direction, but it wasn't so simple. I'd been blown about like a scrap of paper in the wind.
— Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
The only way to understand the reason behind someone's hurtful behaviour is -Understanding that every action is driven by an underlying emotion. Emotions especially the negative one's are our reactions to the conflict between our beliefs and reality.The influence of these negative emotions, causes us to act in ways that hurt others.So if someone hurts you, it actually indicatesthat they have an unsatisfied need or a woundthat needs attention.
— Wordions
Worry is the only emotion that never leaves a human's heart.
— Luffina Lourduraj
But we must understand that emotions are unreliable and at times, tyrannical. They should never be permitted to dominate us.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
Highs must be followed by lows
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
The reason I believe that emotion is a higher state than intellect is that chess computers don't enjoy winning.
— R.A.Delmonico
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.
— Emily Brontë
The more unsettled and unbalanced we feel, the more quickly and recklessly we are likely to fall in love.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Stop assuming I don't have any emotions. My inner thoughts might not be easily seen on my face. I do think and feel.
— Tina J. Richardson
One could never pay too high a price for any sensation.
— Oscar Wilde
Told me that when you bury emotions like that, you're only pissing them off ... making them stronger, because you're burying them alive. They don't like that, and one day they'll make sure that you don't like it either.
— Rob Thurman, Madhouse
I do not see emotions and feelings as the intangible and vaporous qualities that many presume them to be. Their subject matter is concrete, and they can be related to specific systems in body and brain, no less so than vision or speech.
— António R. Damásio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
Dedicandote estos versos, una pulsera vieja, con tu nombre al reverso.I dedicate these verses, an old bracelet with your name on the back.
— INTERNET
Love is a wishbone cracked in two.
— Mirjana M. Inalman
Timing is only lack of enough emotions.
— Shannon L. Alder
Given a choice, it seems like pity would be easier to bear than mockery, but that's not true. Mockery hardens defenses; pity slips through, finds the softest places you have, and slices to the bone. Pity will break you, every time.
— Erica O'Rourke, Dissonance
While every chapter should have goals to further the plot and delve our readers deeper into our world, there must be one goal above all else: Emotional Impact.
— A.J. Flowers, A Guide to Writing Your First Novel
Feeling had controlling influence over those primitive people, not thinking. It played a crucial part in the evolutionary development of modern humans. That’s why we humans are basically an emotional species alongside being the smartest one.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Spirituality Engine
The Fair Folk don't give back what they take.
— Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight
When you have butterflies and you’re feeling anxious and you have anxiety or are nervous, that’s when you’re most powerful... A lot of people, instead of honing this power and using it, they allow it to just consume them. There’s another quote that says, ‘A big challenge, a big pressure is like a fire, it’s like a raging fire. Either you can allow this fire to consume you and just take you over completely, or you can gain control of this fire and harness it and you blow it right at your opponent, Dragonball Z style.’ That’s what I’m trying to do, trying to get my emotions under control and use this adrenaline to my advantage.
— Jon Jones
Kids need to find someone going the same direction by the same methodology – and try not to fall in love beforehand. – Toby Willis
— The Willis Clan
Mad and sad is a good mix for poor decisions.
— Hart of Dixie
There are three states of matter but what state one is in that matters.
— Amit Abraham
Although my work is to grapple with words, I have no words with which to describe and explain this feeling. Perhaps I write stories to show that in life there are moments, emotions, and events that cannot be explained with words.
— Shahriar Mandanipour, Censoring an Iranian Love Story
Our bodies are reflective of our inner feelings. If we feel emotionally or sexually vulnerable inside, we may build a protective layer of fat over our abdomen or hips, the places where we hold our emotions and sexuality.
— Hina Hashmi, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment
.......Love is physiologically a legal battle that lovers fight until death.
— Farooq A. Shiekh
What you think is the heart might well be another organ.
— Jeanette Winterson
Sometimes the tunes of our songs are not melodious. Sometimes they are just without emotion, flesh, breath, or thought.
— Nikita Dudani
...... Love is physiologically a legal battle lovers fight until death".
— Farooq A. Shiekh
...... I hate biochemistry because there is no chapter on roses.
— Farooq A. Shiekh
The wrong lover will always make your love feel inadequate.
— Jasmine Sandozz
Contentment is not a power that may be exercised naturally, but a science to be acquired gradually.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
The next morning, Angie woke with the sun...Her eyes felt gritty and swollen.Once again she'd watered her mattress with memories.
— Kristin Hannah, The Things We Do for Love
I opened up a bit and explained that I have a type I'm drawn to naturally, but that I've found that the women I've ended up loving the most have never been what I've thought of as my type, maybe because part of love is being helpless, being out of control of your own emotions.
— B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
So many emotions flicker over him—astonishment, concern, remorse . . . and the always-present adoration. I raise my hand toward his face and he winces, as if anticipating a slap. Instead, I stroke his cheek and those beautifully expressive jewels under his eyes, then lift to my toes and press my lips to his. His flavor and warmth envelop me. He moans and cups my face on either side, kissing me deeper, but I pull
— A.G. Howard, Ensnared
One error, in fact, of eccentricity in poetry is to seek for new human emotions to express; and in this search for novelty in the wrong place it discovers the perverse. The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
— T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent: An Essay
Bold didn’t know what he felt, it changed minute by minute.
— Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt
When the madness came, he would be like a man staggering along the rim of the abyss – which was his rage – and when the edge gave way or he missed his step, he might clutch at anyone within reach and drag that person with him over the precipice.
— Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord
Life is a juggling act with your own emotions. The trick is to always keep something in your hand and something in the air.
— Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love
Durability is one of the chief elements of strength. Nothing is either loved or feared but that which is likely to endure.
— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
I'm obsessed with trying to recount events as accurately and honestly as possible, but in practice the only thing I'm really any good at is telling you how I feel.
— Jason Christopher Hartley, Just Another Soldier: A Year on the Ground in Iraq
Memories are the only moments when smiling & crying takes place at the same moment.
— Sujish Kandampully
Perhaps a better explanation for why it's so difficult to feel our feelings is that ALL emotion, positive or negative, opens the door to the nature of reality. All of us prefer to avoid pain -- but even more, we want to escape reality.
— Dan B. Allender
Stating a truth in an emotional way does not make what we say irrational
—  our beliefs being severed from truth and reality do.
A muffled curse comes from the doorway. I jerk my head to find Jeb there, blood drained from his face. His gaze is fierce yet dejected, a deep and gut-twisting wound I haven’t seen since his dad was alive and tormenting him.
— A.G. Howard, Unhinged
We look at the world through our own eyes, naturally. But by looking from the inside out, we see an inside-out world. This book takes the perspective of the world outside us—a world in which humans are not the measure of all things, a human race among other races. ...In our estrangement from nature we have severed our sense of the community of life and lost touch with the experience of other animals. ...understanding the human animal becomes easier in context, seeing our human thread woven into the living web among the strands of so many others.
— Carl Safina, Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
Unleash in the right time and place before you explode at the wrong time andplace.
— Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
I've even purposely looked for stories full of exactly this kind of angst, because I love the emotion behind it so much.
— Rachel Hollis, Smart Girl
It’s like I’m on a roller-coaster ride, but I’m not allowed to get off. I’m strapped to the seat, and within eyesight the unfinished twirl of the track swirls into the air.
— Danielle Esplin, Give It Back
There are two aspects of man’s existence which are the special province and expression of his sense of life: love and art.I am referring here to romantic love, in the serious meaning of that term—as distinguished from the superficial infatuations of those whose sense of life is devoid of any consistent values, i.e., of any lasting emotions other than fear. Love is a response to values. It is with a person’s sense of life that one falls in love—with that essential sum, that fundamental stand or way of facing existence, which is the essence of a personality. One falls in love with the embodiment of the values that formed a person’s character, which are reflected in his widest goals or smallest gestures, which create the style of his soul—the individual style of a unique, unrepeatable, irreplaceable consciousness. It is one’s own sense of life that acts as the selector, and responds to what it recognizes as one’s own basic values in the person of another. It is not a matter of professed convictions (though these are not irrelevant); it is a matter of much more profound, conscious and subconscious harmony.Many errors and tragic disillusionments are possible in this process of emotional recognition, since a sense of life, by itself, is not a reliable cognitive guide. And if there are degrees of evil, then one of the most evil consequences of mysticism—in terms of human suffering—is the belief that love is a matter of “the heart,” not the mind, that love is an emotion independent of reason, that love is blind and impervious to the power of philosophy. Love is the expression of philosophy—of a subconscious philosophical sum—and, perhaps, no other aspect of human existence needs the conscious power of philosophy quite so desperately. When that power is called upon to verify and support an emotional appraisal, when love is a conscious integration of reason and emotion, of mind and values, then—and only then—it is the greatest reward of man’s life.
— Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto
You’re overly hostile, and that’s not a good thing. Pulsar, especially, are very controlled in their emotions.’‘So I’ve been told,’ I mutter.‘They’re like water: elegant, neutral in all feeling. You, though, you’re like fire: blazing, belligerent, existing on all feelings – so unsuited to being a Pulsar.’‘Maybe that’s why we clash so much, you and me, because we’re fire on fire.
— Giselle Simlett, Girl of Myth and Legend
I keep hearing that love isn't a logical emotion. Should I worry about that?
— Ellen Hopkins, Perfect
You can never rightly judge another person's life because as a person, you only know the truth, with certainty, of your own experiences.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
Low and grovelling thoughts of God must be given up
—  doubting and despairing must be removed
The thoroughly guilty man has an advantage over all of us; he cannot be found more guilty of anything, since he has already found himself guilty of everything. This may sound like an absurdity - causing oneself extreme pain in order not to feel any number of little pains of lesser guilts and shames, but it has its own logic. A man more easily adapts to what he inflicts upon himself; as to his own judgement, he is already committed to it and willing to live with it.
— Robert C. Solomon
All negative emotion originates from FEAR and all positive emotion originates from LOVE.
— Renee Cefalu
We lose much consolation by the habit of reading His promises for the whole church, instead of taking them directly home to ourselves.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version