Emotional Capacity Quotes

#1. Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.

Alain De Botton

#2. Our ability to understand, to embrace, to help, to know, to feel and to love is bounded only by our own emotional ambitions. The capacity to open ourselves up to one another is as huge as we dare to make it.

Anna Quindlen

#3. should like to write a novel certainly, a novel that would be as lovely as a Persian carpet and as unreal. But

Oscar Wilde

#4. In his seminal article, "The Capacity to Be Alone," psychoanalyst and child development expert D. W. Winnicott asserted that the ability to be alone "is one of the most important signs of maturity in emotional development.

Laurie A. Helgoe

#5. Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for deep emotional experiences, for the joy and sadness that accompany them.

Erich Fromm

#6. Show gratitude. Gratitude is a simple but powerful thing.

Randy Pausch

#7. We have devalued the singular human capacity to see things whole in all their psychic, emotional and moral dimensions, and we have replaced this with faith in the powers of technical calculation.

Neil Postman

#8. You have the emotional capacity of a garden gnome.

Lex Martin

#9. Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it.

Ayn Rand

#10. I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.

Julie Taymor

#11. The human capacity for grief. It just isn't capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn't just level off - it just gives up, resets itself to zero. Admit it. None of us feel a damn about these people.

Alastair Reynolds

#12. Some scars don't hurt. Some scars are numb. Some scars rid you of the capacity to feel anything ever again.

Joyce Rachelle

#13. My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'

Kitty Kelley

#14. shards of glass spray everywhere. I take another swing, this time catching him on the side of the head, nearly knocking him back out onto

Steven Jenkins

#15. I love a star print. I always get a lurch if I see a nice one.

Bella Freud

#16. The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodness of the gift of human life.

Thomas Keating

#17. I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.

Ryan Gosling

#18. 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

#19. You have inside you the capacity to invest your mental, emotional, and spiritual gifts in a way that glorifies God, impacts the world, and satisfies your own soul. I believe that-and I want you to believe it, too.

David Jeremiah

#20. Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person. It has both emotional and cognitive aspects, involving the ability to tune into the emotions experienced by another.

Jacqui Stedmon

#21. Salvation brings into the life a new capacity and with it a new ability to think right, to love God, to purpose to do the will of God, to have a changed heart. The heart of the Christian (and this means his intellectual, emotional, volitional, and spiritual life) can now be true and pure (Heb.

Charles C. Ryrie

#22. Lincoln's ability to retain his emotional balance in such difficult situations was rooted in actute self-awareness and an enormous capacity to dispel anxiety in constructive ways.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#23. I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation.

Frank Sinatra

#24. The capacity to form attachments on equal terms is considered evidence of emotional maturity. It is the absence of this capacity which is pathological. Whether there may be other criteria of emotional maturity, like the capacity to be alone, is seldom taken into account.

Anthony Storr

#25. But I've been in so much trouble. I threw an apple at Lea's face. I fought guards. I cheated on my trig exam."
Aiden looked at me, frowning. "You cheated on your math exam?"
"Uh, forget that. Anyway, wow, I'm just surprised.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#26. The only analogy I have before me is Socrates. My task is a Socratic task, to revise the definition of what it is to be a Christian. For my part I do not call myself a "Christian" (thus keeping the ideal free), but I am able to make it evident that the others are still less than I.

Soren Kierkegaard

#27. So, without being cold, you really have to try to retain the capacity to help people without becoming too emotional or allowing your own emotions to have full rein.

Guy Green

#28. Consumerism has worked very hard, with the help of popular psychology ('Just do it!') to convince people that indulgence is good for you, whereas frugality is self-oppression. It

Yuval Noah Harari

#29. ... one can't live without falling now and again.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#30. We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments.

Joseph Addison

#31. There is no such thing as a rational person. We are emotional creatures with some token capacity for reason.

Jed McKenna

#32. No, it's not a 'corpse thing.' I feel I lack the emotional capacity to deal with those in mourning ...

Jen Lancaster

#33. My uncle said physically disciplining children fell into the same category as hitting an animal, neither has the emotional or intellectual capacity to understand the action on any level other than pain and fear. He said discipline is a concept that can only be understood by adults.

Fabian Black

#34. If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider

Joyce Brothers

#35. The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.

Jennifer Armintrout

#36. And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable ... you ironically increase ... the probability of getting what you want.

Michael Neill

#37. Emotional versatility is the art of making peace with the entire emotional spectrum by honing your capacity to channel various feelings along creative and constructive lines. It is not about controlling or condemning your feelings. It's about conducting your feelings in a self-edifying way.

T.K. Coleman

#38. You know, men don't think like women."
"Well ... " I pulled a face. "That's because you have the emotional capacity of a shot cup.

Samantha Young