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Our emotions are the continuous waves and undercurrents that enable us to flow but in some instances, when hold on to them, suppress them or repress them, or express the destructively, they disrupt the flow
— Mavis Mazhura, Navigating the Rapids and the Waves of Life: 10 Lessons for Managing Emotions for Success
Personal emotions should be carefully monitored. Emotional ties are to be exploited but never felt.
— Matt Kindt, MIND MGMT, Volume Three: The Home Maker
Some wounds never show, not even in the mirror, until we see them in the expressions on the faces of people we love.
— Cameron Jace, Cinderella Dressed in Ashes
My father looked as if I'd just gutted him - but it was mingled with a twisted sense of satisfaction. It felt good to hurt his feelings.
— Ernest Cline, Armada
Prayer is never out of season: in summer and in winter its merchandize is precious. Prayer gains audience with heaven in the dead of night, in the midst of business, in the heat of noonday, in the shades of evening. In every condition, whether of poverty, or sickness, or obscurity, or slander, or doubt, your covenant God will welcome your prayer and answer it from His holy place.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
their anxiety, justified or not, was genuine,
— Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate
Those who are critical don’t like being criticized, and those who are insensitive have a deficiency in their senses.
— Suzy Kassem
i am so crammedfull of fearsthat if you were to touch me i might eitherfly or break.
— Sanober  Khan
Emotions embarassed her except when she sang. My dad said that was exactly why she sang.
— Sarah Winman, When God Was a Rabbit
I wanted her so badly, my heart hung out of my chest like some hound-dog's tongue, pant, pant.
— Michelle Tea, Valencia
The notion must be put aside that emotions are irrational and we must see emotions for their true function. This will not rob the emotional content, it will merely explain it. Some things when more deeply explained provide greater sources of personal and corporate pleasure, not less.
— Leviak B. Kelly, Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
This is why questions must be asked and answered truthfully and why we must train our emotions to coincide with what is actually true. Doubt is a necessary part of faith, otherwise it is a blind faith and a deaf faith that deserves to be a mute faith. For, when Helen Keller, who was deaf, blind and had to learn to speak can come closer to the truth than persons with full sensory capacity, perhaps there is something wrong with our religious and spiritual traditions.
— Leviak B. Kelly, Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
But now he understood why someone would write things like 'she walked in beauty like the night' and so forth. Because poetry was a barrier against raw emotions. It distilled them into bearable music, allowed one to accommodate them a little at a time.
— Julie Anne Long, What I Did For a Duke
Words do not come back to me easily,so I pull out my heart and wrap itin a thin sheet of paper, let the bloodseep across in stanzas of honestyand hand it to anyone who will take itso that the still-beating heart can tell themall my secrets, all my weaknesses,because if they are not hiddenthey cannot be taken and used against me.
— Miriam Joy, Broken Body Fragile Heart
Philosophers in the scholastic tradition have usually defined intellectual certitude as a proposition in which we have no reasonable 'fear' of the opposite proposition turning out to be the truth. But this "fear" of which the medieval scholastics spoke does not convey their teaching to a mind trained in the proper formalities of the English language. A lack of fear, in this context, means that we cannot judge the opposite to be possible and that we are fully conscious of the reasons why we cannot. We have no reason permitting us to withhold assent to the proposition at hand. "lack of fear, " in this context, is something intellectual; it is not really a "lack of fear," in the emotional sense at all, and "fear" —in English - connotes the emotional. A man can possess intellectual certitude about a proposition and still fail to possess subjective or emotional certitude. He can emotionally fear the opposite, even though he cannot think the opposite to be a possibility. A man ca be absolutely certain that a God exists and still feel His absence. pg 172
— Frederick D. Wilhelmsen, Man's Knowledge of Reality: An Introduction to Thomistic Epistemology
No matter how long a shallow foundation supports a luxuriant structure, it will always collapse back to its thin rank, flouting out emotions.
— Darmie O-Lujon
We are not moved by reasons but by emotions
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
I used to give too much importance to reason until I discovered the world was shaped not by reason but by emotion
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Temujin had had not the slightest notion that bad emotion can just grow and grow from inside you and squeeze out the universe.
— Bryn  Hammond, Amgalant One: The Old Ideal
A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Tears aren't just for babies. They're proof that you feel something and aren't afraid to show it. It's those that won't ever allow themselves to cry that are the weak ones.
— Morgan Rhodes, A Book of Spirits and Thieves
They said you were hard and cold and unfeeling.”“But it’s true...I am, in the sense they mean—only have they ever told you in just what sense they mean it?""What did they mean about you?”“Whenever anyone accuses some person of being ‘unfeeling,’ he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that .‘to feel’ is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
However apart, soulmates never part.
— Shampa Sharma
Stars are everything and nothing that we think they are.They are their own world, but through an act of will we make them part of ours. They are the diamonds of the gods, the lights at a stadium where angels play a midnight game of baseball.They’re fairy farts that have been set ablaze! Mostly, they’re just an untouchable beauty that’s so far away, it’s the only place safe enough to store our secret hopes and dreams. When we see a shooting start, we all make a wish. But what nobody admits is how afraid they are of actually catching something that fell from heaven. I’m not afraid to burn. ~Hadrian
— J.M. Evans
I know every single street in this town. And I love strolling these streets in the mornings, in the evenings, and then at night when I am merry and tipsy. I love to have breakfasts with my friends along the Bosphorus on Sundays, I love to walk alone amid the crowds. I am in love with the chaotic beauty of this city, the ferries, the music, the tales, the sadness, the colors, and the black humor.....
— Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul
Whenever anyone accuses some person of being ‘unfeeling,’ he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that .‘to feel’ is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I have emotions,” I whisper. I am nothing but a black hole of emotions.
— Beth Revis, The Body Electric
I have never known anyone to win a battle waged against his emotions. When a sentiment hoists his glimmering blade into the air, the battle is lost before it has begun.
— Kelseyleigh Reber
Let emotions happen naturally. If we try to control them they will never be released and will stick with us like a shadow. But if we can observe them with no judgement, no labels and when we do label them because it's difficult transmute them into positive creativity.
— Matthew Donnelly
Honor, More charged, 'is the religion of tragedy.' Emotions such as love, hate, ambition, pride, and jealousy, 'form a dazzling system of worldly morality,' which contradicts 'the spirit of that religion whose characteristics are charity, meekness, peaceableness, longsuffering, gentleness, forgiveness.
— Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
The emotion called love occurs in one's body and it is under the control of another person. The other person can cause it to occur at any time.
— Larry Mickelson, Keystone ~ An Unusual Love Story
I need to be touched emotionally and physically.
— Amanda Mosher, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
Photographers are artists, they capture and bring emotion in the motions of life.
— Unarine Ramaru
People who logically examine their relationships cannot sustain them. Two bodies, two minds, two emotions can never fit perfectly.
— Sadghuru
A veteran artist counsels a less experienced one to start a painting using colors in the middle range so that the painter can move to more extreme colors as the work progresses.
— David McCullough, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
For those regarded as warriors...When engaged in combat, the vanquishing of thine enemy can be the warrior’s only concern. Suppress all human emotion and compassion. Kill whoever stands in thy way, even if that be Lord God or Buddha himself. This truth lies at the heart of the art of combat.
— Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill
No matter how good you act to be tough, your emotions will flow without your control...
— Ankit Rawat
The cornerstone of the Roman legionnaires' astonishing fighting spirit can be attributed to their training.
— Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
Gloria screamed, but nothing came out. She could feel the scream in her throat, but it was clinging there, too scared to climb out of her mouth.Raymond might have screamed, too--he wasn't sure. His face was an exploding red ball--that was what it felt like. His heart was in the middle of his head. He couldn't see a thing.
— Roddy Doyle, Brilliant
To be happy, you must let go of all the negative beliefs, emotions and people that are holding you back in life.
— Robert Tew
Well, that's what I still think, but I am in a rut at work--I hate my job,' I said, allowing my emotions to find words.
— Luke Lively
But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant’s grip — one’s faculties rise in revolt — and one pays for outward calm with an almost unbearable inner struggle.
— Charlotte Brontë
It’s a lot like a roller coaster. There are lots of twists and turns, and some of the hills are a bit scary, but you stay on the ride just to feel the thrill of that fall again,” Julia said. “And, when you find that person; no matter where you are in life; don’t you be afraid to take that ride,” she instructed the girls. “Hold on up the hills, and let go during the falls, just like you do on the roller coaster.
— Nancy Ann Healy, Falling Through Shooting Stars
If you want peace in your life, you have to stop declaring war.
— Shannon L. Alder
With lead he shaded love into the woman's eyes.
— Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
Alack, sir, no; her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love. We cannot call her winds and waters sighs and tears; they are greater storms and tempests than almanacs can report: this cannot be cunning in her; if it be, she makes a shower of rain as well as Jove.
— William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
Create a sacred space to learn more about your body and mind, go on a date with yourself and explore emotions, sensation, desires, dreams, and accept yourself as you are. By spending some time getting to know yourself better, you will know what you have to offer and, it will be easier to ask for what you want.
— Nityananda Das, Divine Union
Emotion will never seize to prevail logic.
— Markus W. Lunner
Anger is temporary insanity.
— John S.C. Abbott
You wouldn't believe it. It's like a wonderful nightmare.""Sure," I said. "I'd believe anything. Including nightmares." "What's the matter? Feel low?""Low as hell.
— Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
I suspect she must speak without emotion or otherwise entirely lose the self-control that is required to speak to me at all.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Interlude #1
Perfection does not mean errorless . Real perfection starts with real intention and ends with delivery, all driven by seeking knowledge, trial & error and investing emotions. Whatever delivered after that is perfect .
— Sameh Elsayed
No one has ever been deeply changed by an act of the will. The only thing that can re-forge and change a life at its root, is love.
— Timothy J. Keller, King's Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus
Technology, hardware, and capital can be copied easily. What can't be copied easily is the culture and human capacity that create those in the first place and does so in a way that engages not just functionally with people, but also emotionally so that people want what your organization offers.
— Matt Perman, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done
You could always call her secretive, masking her feelings beautifully lest anyone intrude into her inmost realm of hidden thoughts. It was a defense Urmila had evolved since childhood.
— Kavita Kané, Sita's Sister
Opinions are based on experiences and experience is always connected with emotions. Anything linked with emotions is always biased.
— Nauman Khan
Walk into any church, and you will see people swimming in a sea of emotions (everything from shame and guilt to love and ecstasy). That may be the reason some people think that the more emotional they are, the more spiritual they are. But, as we will explore later in the book, undiluted spirituality has little to do with emotions, and what little it does have has more to do with emotional growth than feelings of elation.
— Gudjon Bergmann, More Likely to Quote Star Wars than the Bible: Generation X and Our Frustrating Search for Rational Spirituality
When a strong emotion is hitting you, it's like nothing else in the world matters and you forget to keep in mind that the emotion will pass. You forget that the strength of the present emotion does not necessarily have anything to do with its long term impact on you.
— Anonymous
Feeling this way was a particular kind of horror, having the emotions without the memories.
— Cassandra Clare, Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
For sixteen years, I had seen just emptiness in those eyes. Her eloquent eyes had lost their expressiveness to destiny.
— Anmol Rawat, Blank Space : Filled with Inspiration
Murder was deeply human. A person was killed and a person killed. And what powered the final thrust wasn't a whim, wasn't an event. It was an emotion. Something once healthy and human had become wretched and bloated and finally buried. But not put to rest. It lay there, often for decades, feeding on itself, growing and gnawing, grim and full of grievance. Until it finally broke free of all human restraint. Not conscience, not fear, not social convention could contain it. When that happened, all hell broke loose. And a man became a monster.
— Louise Penny, A Rule Against Murder
Love: a hybrid emotion made up of various other emotions collaged by some weak individual's mind to try to quell a particular horror that's not been wiped out by more standardized symbols like Christ, etc. Nietzsche, right? Whatever.
— Dennis Cooper, Try
People are likely to act based on their emotions and then backward-rationalize. Because women have highly developed emotional circuits, they are especially susceptible to this.
— Mystery, The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed
You think I read your thoughts, but it's your eyes that speak to me. When they glisten with moisture, I see a depth of emotion stirring behind them. One tearful glance begs me for a reassuring embrace. When your gaze glazes over like a misty morning, I know I've lost you to personal cares. A sharp, narrow look will keep me at bay while a wink and twinkle and the flirty flutter of your dark eyelashes invite my company. The strength and duration of a stare gives your feelings towards me away. And when those wary eyes dart to avoid my notice, all of your hidden secrets are betrayed.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Spirituality can exist only in a pure heart.
— Sangita Pareek
She hadn't seen a doctor cry before, they usually don't, that makes itharder.- Anita
— Nilesh Sakpal
Contention with all its variations is one of the most destructive forces in home and society. Lying and stealing are only extensions of basic problems in the home environment. Some psychologists of the day would label such malfunctions as 'normal.' 'Ignore it,'they say. 'It's a normal stage which children will outgrow.'The fact is that quarreling, lying, and stealing are not necessary or normal to proper growth and development and are as much a menace to society as to the home and the individuals. Almost all children have some of these feelings in their makeup. Nut learning to control feelings rather than letting the feelings control the person is the secret to happiness.
— Clyde F. Boyle
Do you know what is truly magnificent? One tear, which is falling down from an authentic sensitive person's eye. Down the cheek and adorns the floor.
— Alexander Zalan, Pavilion of Thoughts
It's terrible to have to fear that your powers will activate at any given moment. Especially when you draw close to people... and find that your only choice is to pull away. It's overwhelming when you find a time, a person, with which there's nothing to fear.
— Zechariah Barrett
Life is like a rushing river. If we fight the current we are drawn under and drown in emotion.
— Ambika Devi
Some people go through the heavy stuff. They fight in wars. They're in jail. They start a business and it gets shut down by gangsters. They end up hustling their ass in a foreign country. It's one long list of setbacks and humiliations. But it doesn't touch them, not really. They're having an adventure. It's like: What's next? And then there's other people who are just trying to live quietly, they stay out of trouble, they're maybe ten years old, or fourteen, and one Friday morning at 9:35 something happens to them, something private, something that breaks their heart. Forever.
— Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things
Don't cry about it. Write about it.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading
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 Season of Second Chances
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, Abuse
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, The Mill on the Floss
I felt so fine I didn't once overanalyze the perfect emotion, budding inside. The one I'd always feared most.
— Ellen Hopkins, Burned
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, The Republic
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, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Our hearts are wired for worship, and our worship is directly tied to our sense of hope.
— James MacDonald, Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth
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, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment
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, Death Before Daylight
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
How we flounder when emotion overtakes us.
— V.S. Naipaul
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, First Day First Show
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, City of God
My heart is tortured for love. For a being of essence locked away from my heart. A padded room locks away these feelings. Convoluted love that has me convinced it’s worth my last breathe to share a moment…one moment in her lifetime. I am trapped with desire to manifest beyond thoughts to expand into reality. No more counterfeit emotions I want the real thing…
— Dallas Palmer
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, You Complete Me
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, Lie to me: Deception: Book Two
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, Truly, Madly, Deeply
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, The Atonement Child
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, Rise of the Morningstar
To really care about others, we have to understand them - what they like and dislike, what they feel as well as think. Emotion drives both men and women and influences every decision we make. Recognizing the role emotions play and being willing to discuss them makes us better managers, partners, and peers.
— Sheryl Sandberg
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, Ink Bleeder
Even a best fountain-pen cannot make a writer be a fount of eloquence, but fountains teach to sob with ecstasy.
— Lara Biyuts, Through The Baltic Looking-Glass. Part 2
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, The Secret Place
Managing your emotions doesn't mean you don't express yourself
—  it means you stop short of hurting others and sabotaging yourself.
There are pieces of me on the ground.
— Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
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, What's Behind Your Belly Button? A Psychological Perspective of the Intelligence of Human Nature and Gut Instinct
Like any good Englishman, he detests emotions and prefers a healthy dose of denial and tea.
— feverishsea, The Real Meaning of Idioms
Romantic love is the most selfish of all emotions.
— Ellen Kenner, Selfish Path to Romance: How to Love With Passion & Reason, Inspired by Ayn Rand
Unconditional Love is a perpetual emotion machine. It inspires us to include others. The longer I am bathed in its radiance, the more I find myself looking at others with an open heart. I can look past their faults and love them. I can say, “I may not like the things you do, but I love you.
— Rosa Marchisella, Notes to My Younger Self
A face whose emotions had not yet been battered by experience.
— Jojo Moyes, One Plus One
What happens outside you, and what happens inside you - happens in two entirely different worlds. You can take charge of only one of these worlds.
— Manoj Arora, Happiness Unlimited: How to be happy always
People pay a dear price when not dealing with the powerful emotions.
— David W. Earle
Change from despair to joy he made her extremely beautiful.
— Margaret Landon, Anna and the King of Siam
But be sure that human feelings can never be completely stilled. If they are forbidden from their normal course, like a river they will cut another channel through the life and flow out to curse and ruin and destroy
— A.W. Tozer, That Incredible Christian
Once your life has caused the creation of a desire, your workis done, and natural forces and laws will take over.
— Let Your Feelings Be Your Guide by Esther and Jerry Hicks
An emotional debt is hard to square.
— Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life
Gabriel discourages emotional attachments the way most of us discourage door-to-door salesmen. They're inconvenient, intrusive, and liable to end up saddling you with something you never wanted in the first place, at a cost far higher than you wish to pay.
— Kelley Armstrong, Visions
All defensiveness and emotional tumult is a fear response because of your need for acceptance and ruthless control of the territory of your safe fantasy world.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Quit pretending to be humble when you are really just a self-abusing, emotional, drama junkie.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
I expect that Calvin would evaluate our worship today not as too emotional, but as too narrow in its emotional repertoire.
— Michael S. Horton, Calvin on the Christian Life: Glorifying and Enjoying God Forever
Music is not in the notes but in what is between them.
— Ella Leya, The Orphan Sky
These raids didn't usually end in violence, but people got emotional, and emotional people did stupid things.
— Aron Christensen, Whisperworld
My fingers traced the melody on an invisible keyboard—my usual way to connect with the music, to feel its emotions on my fingertips. I touched the keys softly, as if gliding my hands through water, but the musical notes kept slipping between my fingers like bubbles, waltzing away in the blue radiance.
— Ella Leya, The Orphan Sky
The languid transition from soft, pink-orange sunlight to deep blue darkness clashed with the clusterfuck that was my emotions.
— Dan Elconin, Never After
When we can't let go of the past, painful moments accumulate in us; metastasizing in our consciousness like an emotional cancer.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Feelings are not as uncomfortable to experience as they are to express.
— Lindsay Corse
I've never been so sure about the rest of my life than I am in this moment. This girl is the rest of my life.
— Colleen Hoover, Point of Retreat
Yet, it's our emotions and imperfections that makes us human.
— Clyde DeSouza, Memories With Maya
If you have ever successfully resisted getting angry, then you know what it is like to resist a demon.
— Alexei Maxim Russell, Why Not-World
This girl is the rest of my life.
— Colleen Hoover, Point of Retreat
When we got back home, Gramps dropped me off and enveloped me in a hug. Normally, he was a handshaker, maybe a back-patter on really special occasions. His hug was strong and tight, and I knew it was his way of telling me that he'd had a wonderful time.“Me, too, Gramps,” I whispered.
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.
— Rudyard Kipling
There is a song from this old movie called Arth where a man asks awoman, “You are smiling so much, there must be a deep pain that you'rehiding.” I wonder what your deep pains are and I wonder how I havefailed you.
— Amulya Malladi, Serving Crazy with Curry
Love makes things so easy. At the same time, it makes things very difficult. The meaning of love always remains to be the same. It just gets changed according to the perception of people in different gestures.
— Rakesh Akuthota
Emotions form pure, profound bondsEmotions may blind us but they bind us.
— Balroop Singh
In truth, it was also by design: as much as I loved my mother, she wasn't often the person I sought for comfort in hard times. She disapproved tacitly of crying.
— Alena Graedon, The Word Exchange
Apparently rational justifications will never explain all sorts of the different feelings and raw emotions art invoke in people.
— Cristiane Serruya, Trust: Pandora's Box
Emotion goes inside-out. Emotional contagion, though, suggests that the opposite is also true. If I can make you smile, I can make you happy. If I can make you frown, I can make you sad. Emotion, in this sense, goes outside-in.
— Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Each human being deals with hurt or resentment in a unique way. When you feel insulted or bullied, you may reach for a chocolate bar. In the same circumstance, I might burst into tears. Another person may put his or her feelings quickly into words, confronting the mistreatment directly. Although our feelings can influence how we wish to act, our choices of how to behave are ultimately determined more by our attitudes and our habits. We respond to our emotional wounds based on what we believe about ourselves, how we think about the person who has hurt us, and how we perceive the world. Only in people who are severely traumatized or who have major mental illnesses is behavior governed by feelings. And only a tiny percentage of abusive men have these kinds of severe psychological problems.
— Lundy Bancroft, Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
Pain was the only sign to her that she was alive and could feel emotion.
— Jeane Westin, His Last Letter: Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester
Love is stronger than anger. Love is stronger than hate - stronger than anything.
— Morgan Rhodes, Falling Kingdoms
There's something mystical in the air and in my heart.The weather is showing my emotions.
— Shabnam Sinha
Most undercover cops are vastly skilled at compartmentalization. It is a talent as valued as lying. They seal off their real feelings and create imitation emotions. Easily torn down when it's time to show the badge, drag someone downtown, and sit across from him in an interrogation cell and tell him how fucked he is now.
— Charlie Huston, Sleepless
The trick was not to stifle the emotions, but to control them. Love, anger, grief – all were weapons in their way, but they needed to be kept in check.
— John Connolly, The Wolf in Winter
The man's emotions flowed back and forth like waves of the sea.
— Marc Cameron, Time of Attack
Think about those who deserve your time and emotions. Because, valuable things should never be wasted and should be delivered with care to those who deserve it.
— Rakesh Akuthota
Emotions are reserved for juries and, in that case, a good lawyer can really lay them on when the time is right, better than the best Academy Award winning actor
— Kenneth Eade, Predatory Kill
I am a lover born to love each part and parcel of the universe with my deep intense emotions. I love to connect with the world and each connection enriches my existence as it blends in my identity.
— Harshada Pathare
I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant after having come in from the rain, the smell of food and wine, interesting conversation, daylight falling weakly on the polished cherrywood of the tables. It took so little to move the mood from one level to another, as one might push pieces on a chessboard. Even to be aware of this, in the midst of a happy moment, was to push one of those pieces, and to become slightly less happy.
— Teju Cole, Open City
Emotions are the colors of the soul; they are spectacular and incredible. When you don't feel, the world becomes dull and colorless.
— William Paul Young
Breakfast seemed to be a good time for throwing your emotions around. Jodie said that at this place emotions were like Frisbees – people just tossed them around all day long like they were at a park.
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
We are often reminded how peaceful our world has become, a world without a police force or prison, where crimes and uprisings have nearly disappeared. But we’ve paid a price. The emotional root of all conflict — fear, anger, love, especially love — is prohibited. The goal of our schooling is to master a life of total self-control. A life without wrinkles, without feeling, without soul.
— Jonathan Friesen, Aquifer
You are not your emotions and they are not who you are, only how you feel at the moment.
— Toni Sorenson
(...) I do want to leave, in the desperate way that an animal wants to escape a trap. Wild and rabid. Ready to gnaw through bone.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
Politics was at once clinical and human, driven by principles and passions that he (the leader) had to master and harness for the good of the whole.
— Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.
— Richard Rosen
We humans are such complicated and confused beings that we call the animals beasts.
— Cristiane Serruya, Trust: Pandora's Box
Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic.
— Amit Kalantri
In the years since, I learned that when I am missing Berk or Asta, I can play my tears through my instruments. And the Monitors think I am just improving. They don't know the truth. I play laughter and frustration. I play feelings I cannot define. But the music defines them for me.
— Krista McGee, Anomaly
While genes are pivotal in establishing some aspects of emotionality, experience plays a central role in turning genes on and off. DNA is not the heart’s destiny; the genetic lottery may determine the cards in your deck, but experience deals the hand you can play. Scientists have proven, for example, that good mothering can override a disadvantageous temperament.(152)
— Thomas Lewis, A General Theory of Love
I suspect that for a good deal of the time you live in a sort of glass case, not knowing real enthusiasm or genuine emotion; or feeling them perhaps at second hand, feeling them sometimes because you think you ought to, not because you really do.
— Winston Graham, Marnie
Sometimes it's not that you "fell out of love" it's that you finally came to the realization that you were never truly "in love" to begin with.
— Stephan Labossiere
I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don't know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy.
— D.H. Lawrence, The Man Who Loved Islands / L'uomo che amava le isole
I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.
— Susie Orbach
Well-being is not the goal
—  it is the starting point. this is yet another realization that could change everything dramatically. it might be a concept you'd like to remind yourself of every now and then.
No matter the situation, never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
Focusing on the past is only a barricade to the future. Once you overcome that barricade, the possibilities are endless.
— Brandon Cella
Humankind has not learned about balance, let alone practiced it. It is guided by greed and ambition, steered by fear. In this way it will eventually destroy itself. But nature will survive; at least the plants will.
— Brian L. Weiss, Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives
I had always thought that sorrow was the most exhausting of the emotions. Now I knew that it was anger.
— Helen Garner, The Spare Room
Some dissociative parts of the personality, living in trauma time, may experience the same emotion no matter the situation, such as fear, rage, shame, sadness, yearning and even some positive ones just as joy.* Other parts have a broader range of feeling. Because emotions are often held in certain parts of the personality, different parts can have highly contradictory perceptions, emotions, and reactions to the same situation.”*This explains many feelings, emotions, and doubts about the unknown haunting us at times.*Awareness and discovering the inner world may help, tremendously.
— Suzette Boon, Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists
Some dissociative parts of the personality, living in trauma time, may experience the same emotion no matter the situation, such as fear, rage, shame, sadness, yearning and even some positive ones just as joy.
— Suzette Boon, Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists
It's my conceit that perhaps some diseases perceived as diseases that destroy a well-functioning machine actually turn it into a new but still well-functioning machine with a different purpose. The AIDS virus: look at it from its point of view. Very vital, very excited, really having a good time. It's really a triumph if you're a virus. See the movies from the disease's point of view. You can see why they would resist all attempts to destroy them. These are all cerebral games, but they have emotional correlatives as well.
— David Cronenberg
..forever daydreaming of a kiss so sweet, angels weep..
— Lenise Lee
DONNA: "She said she knew it in her heart. Do you know how many times I've been wrong about things I knew in my heart?
— Aaron Sorkin, The West Wing Script Book
Our observer is not affected by emotional ups and downs, our personal life dramas, or by the events of the external world. It is our observer, at the core of our being, that teaches us to let go as we begin identify with it rather than with all the hubbub of our moment-to-moment experience and our mental chatter about it.
— Marcey Shapiro, Freedom From Anxiety: A Holistic Approach to Emotional Well-Being
Since emotions are merely information, there are no good or bad, right or wrong emotions.
— Marcey Shapiro, Freedom From Anxiety: A Holistic Approach to Emotional Well-Being
Express your emotions in a multidimensional manner. Don’t just speak
—  act! Don’t just say
Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Ever since people first existed, they have been doing all the things we label "codependent." They have worried themselves sick about other people. They have tried to help in ways that didn't help. They have said yes when they meant no. They have tried to make other people see things their way. They have bent over backwards avoiding hurting people's feelings and, in so doing, have hurt themselves. They have been afraid to trust their feelings. They have believed lies and then felt betrayed. They have wanted to get even and punish others. They have felt so angry they wanted to kill. They have struggled for their rights while other people said they didn't have any. They have worn sackcloth because they didn't believe they deserved silk.
— Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
At the end of the day it’s not ‘what looks good’ that matters, it’s ‘what feels’ good.
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
To experience positive/healthy emotions you don’t need a big house or a nice car or a managerial job or a million dollar in your bank.
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
As everyone knows, there is often a rather fine line between laughing and crying
— E.B. White
I have never taken sides, never leaped wholeheartedly into one scale or the other; nor do I realize disappointments, provided they are severe, until the occasion is long past. Yet I am ruled by my emotions, though I murder them at birth.
— Geoffrey Household, Rogue Male
Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.
— Diane Ackerman, The Zookeeper's Wife
The Christian stoic who has crushed his feelings is only two-thirds of a man; an important third part has been repudiated. Holy feeling had an important place in the life of our Lord. “For the joy that was set before Him” He endured the cross and despised its shame. He pictured Himself crying, “Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.
— A.W. Tozer, The Divine Conquest
The realization that my grandmother, mother and I are one in the same awakens something mysterious inside of me. The person I am, someone I believe has more opportunities than my mom and grandmother in matters of work, relationships and love is true, yet I am still acting out old belief patterns. I am no better or smarter than either one of them. Our basic needs and emotions in life are the similar. Our experiences differ, but we are one and the same. This conscious awakening is surreal.
— Sadiqua Hamdan, Happy Am I. Holy Am I. Healthy Am I.
Her mask gave no sign of how this affected her.
— Donna Leon, About Face
Late that night we were both still thinking about the events as they unfolded. He suggested a drive back to the water to bring some closure. As we stood in the water I felt so thankful to have been with a friend capable of hearing and expressing emotion.
— Paula Heller Garland
I repeat one of my mantras. 'This is not happening. This is not real. This did not happen to you. That was someone else.
— Emily Andrews, The Finer Points of Becoming Machine
Her eyes felt swollen, and she knew she looked a mess, but sometimes...sometimes the emotions were just too big to hold.
— Rachel Caine, Fall of Night
Minimizing the importance of transformed feelings makes Christian conversion less supernatural and less radical. It is humanly manageable to make decisions of the will for Christ. No supernatural power is required to pray prayers, sign cards, walk aisles, or even stop sleeping around. Those are good. They just don’t prove that anything spiritual has happened. Christian conversion, on the other hand, is a supernatural, radical thing. The heart is changed. And the evidence of it is not just new decisions, but new affections, new feelings.
— John Piper, Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
Secrets are what can ease or crush a soul, mend or destroy a heart, and rescue or murder a life.
— Alexis Hurley
Secrets can kill the innocent and enchant the guilty.
— Alexis Hurley
The breath I take, the thoughts I think, the emotions I develop, the blood I circulate, the neurons that are wired, everything is completely controlled and has a deep meaning behind it. My soul is enlightened.
— Magith Noohukhan
She toyed around with his smiles and emotions, till they actually turned plastic. And then, She changed the toy…
— Douglas Self
In the game of cards, he would always get the worst hand. In the game of dice, he always got the worst numbers. By the age 7 he had already accepted that luck was not his thing. But for the first time, he wanted to get that perfect hand. For the first time he wanted to be the one, to be the one whom she would like over all others.
— Naren Singh
The mouth is but a megaphone to the desires of the heart.
— Kevin Thoman
Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
— Charlotte Brontë