
Top 100 Control Your Feelings Quotes
#1. If you think about something else hard enough, you can mostly control your feelings.
Delia Ephron
#2. by structuring it in your life as a musical diary or log, you can control your feelings and change them on a dime if you need to.
Chris Hardwick
#3. You, and you alone, get to determine whether you are going to react positively about something or negatively about something - or, interestingly, have no reaction at all. Your emotions are entirely under your control. Your feelings are what you want them to be.
Neale Donald Walsch
#4. Stop trying to stay safe, stop trying to control your feelings. Don't put up an umbrella, feel the rain.
Fabian Black
#5. You can't control your feelings but you can control the actions that come with those feelings.
Craig Mercier
#6. The little I am exposed to hurts my feelings. The only things I can really control are my songs and my behavior. The rest? If I focused on it, that would lead to insanity.
Taylor Swift
#7. Of course he chanted with the rest: it was impossible to do
otherwise. To dissemble your feelings, to control your face, to
do what everyone else was doing, was an instinctive reaction.
George Orwell
#8. Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.
Randall Terry
#9. Feelings are indicators, not dictators. They can indicate where your heart is in the moment, but that doesn't mean they have the right to dictate your behavior and boss you around. You are more than the sum total of your feelings and perfectly capable of that little gift ... called self-control.
Lysa TerKeurst
#10. I never wanted to be alone, but I always opted for loneliness. I am an emotional, sensitive and expressive creature. I cannot detach my feelings, never could I control. I fall in love and I can be easily broken.
M.F. Moonzajer
#11. To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings by changing your breathing.
Marina Abramovic
#12. Acceptance and commitment therapy, a variant on cognitive therapy, attempts to teach people to accept rather than change their emotions and make decisions within the context of what they value, as opposed to letting negative feelings control their behavior.
Joseph E. Ledoux
#13. It was unnerving. She'd looked at him and had the uncontrollable urge to weep. Thus far she'd managed to control her emotions. Thank God. She didn't even want to imagine what he would think of her if she started weeping for absolutely no reason.
Debbie Macomber
#14. This was wrong. Tony didn't want to have feelings. The sex was great. It was okay to want her, dominate her, and control her. It was not okay to want to be with her, please her, and love her. Yet every one of his senses desired Claire.
Aleatha Romig
#15. If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.
Albert Ellis
#16. Feelings will get you out of control, but faith doesn't.
Auliq Ice
#17. If anyone controls your feelings, emotions, and thoughts - she or he controls you. Even if you are longing for love, think of yourself with love.
Debasish Mridha
#18. I always
enjoyed the feeling of being
onstage - the magic that comes.
When I hit the stage it's like all
of a sudden a magic from
somewhere just comes and the spirit just hits you and you just
lose control of yourself.
Michael Jackson
#19. Behavioral design is all about feeling in control. Includes: usability, understanding, but also the feel.
Donald A. Norman
#20. We cannot control how others feel and react. Even though we should understand feelings, there are some things that are out of our control, and some decisions we can only make for ourselves.
Jack Canfield
#21. High self-esteem comes from feeling like you have control over events not that events have control over you.
Tony Robbins
#22. There are many things in this life one can plan for, anticipate, control, manipulate, but love is not one of them.
Kelseyleigh Reber
#23. The light within us can always identify our mind's darkness
Munia Khan
#24. Love isn't a choice. I can't control how I feel about him any more than I can control the sun in the sky. But what I can do is control what I do with those feelings.
Karina Halle
#25. From my observation, habits in four areas do most to boost feelings of self-control, and in this way strengthen the Foundation of all our habits. We do well to begin by tackling the habits that help us to: 1. sleep 2. move 3. eat and drink right 4. unclutter
Gretchen Rubin
#26. She has learned that she can control her emotions by thinking of her chest cavity as an enormous box with a chain lock. She opens the box and stuffs in any stray unmanageable feelings, any wayward sadness or regret, and clamps it shut.
Christina Baker Kline
#27. People who feel the need to push and control tend to keep their feelings bottled up. As a result, they get shut down or remote, and their feelings come out in twisted, unhealthy ways. They become irritable, passive-aggressive, or volatile, for example.
Judith Orloff
#28. The secret to perseverance is a simple one: have a bigger commitment to getting the job done than to attempting to control your inner feelings and sensations.
Nicholas Lore
#29. I'm worried that feelings are the one thing in our lives that we have absolutely no control over.
Colleen Hoover
#30. Let us dare, then, to make the following hypothesis: the raw materials of today's production process are excitation, erection, ejaculation, and pleasure and feelings of self-satisfaction, omnipotent control, and total destruction.
Paul B. Preciado
#31. You can't control my feelings, Hancock. You control my fate, yes. My ultimate destiny. My life even. But you can't control me.
Maya Banks
#33. Never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn't apologize for being the sun. The rain doesn't say sorry for falling. Feelings just are
Iain S. Thomas
#34. Be grateful. These feelings, no matter how painful, are part of
living. Today, we are alive - not anesthetized, not sedated, not passed
out. Take control of your feelings and through action you can change.
Today, as every day of sober living, we have a choice.
Ann D. Clark
#35. As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine.
Levon Aronian
#36. Beatrice did something to him, reduced him to his basic animal self, but he needed to purge his out of control feelings, not amplify them.
Audra North
#37. He has feelings for you." Dakota's eyes have that dreamy look in them. "Deep, consuming feelings. The kind that dominate your thoughts and control your decisions. And feed your soul.
K.A. Tucker
#38. We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#39. You can't control other people's feelings. All you can do is put yourself out there and hope she's going to feel the same way.
Helena Hunting
#40. I think you must have your feelings under a very good control. You turn them about and face them the way you want them to be. I wish I could do that. What's the secret?
Winston Graham
#41. I tell myself that with enough effort, I can control my feelings.
Colleen Hoover
#42. There are some days where, at the end of the day, you've done OK. It's the most out-of-control feeling you possibly can have.
Kathryn Hahn
#43. Feelings are not controllable," I retorted, "They are not thoughts or words. They are invisible emotions you cannot control no matter how bad you try.
Ariana Godoy
#44. Feelings can have a life of their own and you have very little direct control over them, except perhaps to make them worse.
Julian Short
#45. Anger and bitterness are normal feelings, but they're like cancer if you can't control them.
Andrew Peterson
#46. The feelings of politicians are rarely transparent.
John Ferling
#47. I don't know whether these feelings - this thing growing inside of me - is something horrible and sick or the best thing that's ever happened to me.
Either way, I can't stop it. I've lost control. And the truly sick thing is that despite everything, I'm glad.
Lauren Oliver
#48. Keep in mind that it is very important to stay moving and to get exercise - positive feelings about our appearance develop once we start taking control of our health.
Katherine Schwarzenegger
#49. However, the majority of people mistakenly judge external things to be 'good' and therefore experience feelings of desire for things beyond their control, leading to frustration and suffering.
Don Robertson
#50. She used every emotional experience as if it were a scrap of material that could be pieced together to make a wonderful dress; she wasted nothing of what she felt, and when in control of those tumultuous feelings she was able to focus and direct her incredible poetic energy to great effect.
Sylvia Plath
#51. If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.
Stephen Covey
#52. It appears that DDNOS is the intentional goal of these abusers, but DID sometimes results from a failure of programming.
In DDNOS, the ANP is always present, even when another part is in control of the behavior and feelings.
Alison Miller
#53. We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression.
Shakti Gawain
#54. A natural right in the strict sense is that which is naturally under a person's control, his body with its faculties of movement, feeling, thought, and speech. By extension, a natural right is what a person brings under his control without violating any other person's natural rights.
Frank Van Dun
#55. I can't help it. You bring it out in me," he accused. "No," I said. "You're choosing to let me get to you. Don't. It's all in the mind.
Donna Lynn Hope
#56. You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.
R.L. Stine
#57. You may not have the power to control whatever happens to you, but you have the power to stop it from affecting your sense of style.
Israelmore Ayivor
#58. When you have a nightmare, don't let it control you. Try transforming that fear into into an antagonist to release pent-up feelings.
B.A. Gabrielle
#59. Genuinely happy people do not just sit around being content. They make things happen. They pursue new understandings, seek new achievements, and control their thoughts and feelings.
Dan Buettner
#60. No one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it.
Milan Kundera
#61. The fact that you can act with love even when you don't feel love is very empowering. Why? Because whereas the feelings of love are fleeting and largely out of your control, you can take the actions of love anytime and anyplace for the whole rest of your life.
Russ Harris
#62. Love was one of those feelings that you could never control.
Cecelia Ahern
#63. Experts agree that the root cause of bullying, workplace or otherwise, is the perpetuating party's own feelings of inadequacy. Those who engage in bullying are harboring personal psychological distress, particularly in matters of confidence and control.
Noah Sullivan
#64. Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings & emotions/
Will Smith
#65. You are the captain of your emotions. No one and nothing can control those feelings except you. You have the sole ability to either let these make or break you, inspire or destroy you.- Elizabeth's Quotes
Elizabeth E. Castillo
#66. There's no "should" or "should not" when it comes to having feelings. They're part of who we are and their origins are beyond our control. When we can believe that, we may find it easier to make constructive choices about what to do with those feelings.
Fred Rogers
#67. No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood.
George Sand
#68. Do not allow negative feelings and emotions to control your mind. Emotional harm does not come from others; it is conceived and developed within ourselves.
Carlos Slim
#69. There's definitely a dangerous feeling when you're in love-it's giving your heart to someone else and knowing that they have control over your feelings. I know for me, who always tries to be so tough, that's the dangerous thing.
Beyonce Knowles
#70. I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.
Brooke Shields
#71. There is a limit for everything. You can't just load tons and tons of peacock feathers in a cart considering it's light weight. If you do, it will damage the axle of the cart.
Thiruvalluvar
#72. We need to live in mindful harmony with our feelings, not attempt to control them.
Les Greenberg
#73. In that moment, I welcomed back the light and let go of the fear, the feelings of unworthiness, the past, the loss, the wallowing, the grief and the anger. I let go of the illusion of control in our losses, of our afflictions.
Ariana Carruth
#74. The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.
Ayn Rand
#75. I should hope, Mr. Poirot, that whatever our feelings, we can keep them in decent control. And we can certainly control our actions.
Agatha Christie
#76. Betrayal is a more subtle, twisted feeling than terror. It burns and eats, but terror stabs right through.
Wendy Hoffman
#77. The only constant factor in life is our feelings and attitudes toward life. One of the few things that we have total control over is our own attitude.
Jim Rohn
#78. He liked the sound of her voice, husky and low in a way that got him thinking about pinning her to the rock and setting his mouth to work on the hollow of her throat, proving to her which of them was in control. Then again, feelings didn't get much more out of control that his were at the moment.
Melissa Cutler
#79. Addictions are an attempt to preserve control over your feelings and your life and respond assertively to helplessness.
Lance Dodes
#80. I certainly have routines in my day-to-day life that are important to me and still give me feelings of security and control, but the capacity to break out of them every so often as I travel has given me a second wind.
Daniel Tammet
#81. It's the feeling of total control. When you are properly trained, your body works hard - but when you move, you do not suffer. That's the feeling I am looking for.
Ueli Steck
#82. The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.
Sivananda
#83. Discipline is simply self-control. If a warrior can't control her feelings, she can't control her actions, and if she can't control her actions, she may blunder into a serious mistake.
Catherine M. Wilson
#84. In games, he feels that he is "creating something new." But this is creation where someone has already been. It is not creation but the FEELING of creation. These are feelings of accomplishment on a time scale and with a certainty that the real world cannot provide.
Sherry Turkle
#85. Centuries of make-up that can be smudged by emotion have taught women to control their feelings.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#86. I use a special tool. I make it myself; very sharp steel point and a handle like a pencil. For me it is a pencil. Maybe I have a special talent, a feeling you might say that lets me control it, to express my ideas as though I were sketching black on white.
Ugo Mochi
#87. Lose control once in a while, and your emotions will make your strong. Keep your heart open, and they'll make you invincible.
Eric Smith
#88. What our hearts want can overtake what our minds tell us is forbidden to us. We can't control these feelings, even if we desperately wish we could.
Morgan Rhodes
#89. As an actor, demonstrating your feelings in front of people is not what you're supposed to be doing. You're supposed to hold your emotions and control them, and not show them all over the place.
James Hong
#90. One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
Gustave Flaubert
#91. Your UNconscious mind has more power, influence and control over your thoughts, feelings, decisions, and choices, than your conscious mind.
Tony Dovale
#92. I simply love being me. You have no power to control my feelings because I own my own heart
Che Acebido
#93. Every time meditators try to control their thoughts or feelings, they are identifying personally (atta) with it and this causes more pain and frustration.
Bhante Vimalaramsi
#94. I couldn't help daydreaming that I was Elizabeth and Gabe was Mr. Darcy. fighting against his blossoming feelings for me. Discovering that his passion was beyond his control and finding me more and more desirable each time we met.
Kristin Walker
#95. We often feel the most stress, or the most emotionally hijacked, when we stare into the void of our jam-packed to-do list, in-box, or desk top. One look at the towering pile of papers looming on our desk, or the 300 unread e-mails, and our feelings of control fly right out the window.
Shawn Achor
#96. I was frightened of myself, I seemed to have no control over my thoughts and feelings, it was like a sort of madness...
Susan Hill
#97. Being a good person likely is more related to distanced feelings of compassion and kindness, along with intelligence, self-control, and a sense of justice. Being a bad person has more to do with a lack of regard for others and an inability to control one's appetites.
Paul Bloom
#98. Sending children away to get control of their anger perpetuates the feeling of 'badness inside them ... Chances are they were already feeling not very good about themselves before the outburst and the isolation just serves to confirm in their own minds that they were right.
Otto Weininger
#99. You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.
Megan Chance
#100. Your feelings and thoughts are your own and fuck them if they think they can control them.
Santino Hassell
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