Quotes About Controlling Our Emotions

#1. Descartes made mention of such views, and more generally saw the imagination as an important tool for managing the emotions: picturing things in the imagination could have affective results, so manipulating the imagination is an effective way of controlling our emotions and their effects.

Anonymous

#2. Anger can be defeated by controlling our emotions without upsetting the nerves.

Munia Khan

#3. I have trouble controlling my base emotions when the moon is full, but anger is the hardest for me. If I'm mad, I turn into the Hulk. Except I'm not green.

Amanda Carlson

#4. If you have control over yourself, you have no desire to control others.

Miya Yamanouchi

#5. We want to be clear: The skills we [teach] you for managing your emotions and controlling your urges to self-harm will never be quite as effective or satisfying as self-harm in the short run.

Kim L. Gratz

#6. 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

#7. Maybe he kept the act going as long as possible, till a faked death were the only way to keep my memory of her pure and clean and something worth loving.

Erin Bowman

#8. What release to write so that one forgets oneself, forgets one's companion, forgets where one is or what one is going to do next to be drenched in sleep or in the sea. Pencils and pads and curling blue sheets alive with letters heap up on the desk.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#9. Yes, dear Father. But has it ever occurred to you that by controlling [your feelings] you destroy them? How many times can we say sorry before we don't feel sorry anymore?

John Le Carre

#10. A little bird told me," said the Lion.

Gregory Maguire

#11. Listen to this, Sunny," she said, when her sister opened her eyes. "'Once a subject has been hypnotized, a simple hmmm word will make him or her perform whatever hmmm acts any hmmm wants hmmmed.'"
"Hmmm?" Sunny asked.
"Those are the words I don't know" Violet explained.

Lemony Snicket

#12. Our feelings are formations, impermanent and without substance. We learn not to identify with ourselves with our feelings, not to consider them as a self, not to seek refuge in them, not to die because of them.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#13. Controlling your emotions is the biggest challenge for a horseman.

Buck Brannaman

#14. You are in control of your life, when you refuse to be provoke.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience.

Fede Alvarez

#16. If free enterprise becomes a proselytizing holy cause, it will be a sign that its workability and advantages have ceased to be self-evident.

Eric Hoffer

#17. Remember, NO ONE has the right to control your emotions, thoughts, and actions, unless you let them.

Kevin J. Donaldson

#18. when life goes down, don't worry. sometimes you have to go down to learn the things that are down

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#19. I tell you the truth, if you will leave your life based on the whims and caprices of men, you shall be like the corn in popcorn machine

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#20. The lower a human being descends, the more asleep and inhumane he becomes. Those beings that lack Compassion, Love, and Peace are the true targets of the ego system ...

Jacqueline Ripstein

#21. 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

#22. The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of bread one has made, there always seems to be something new to learn.

Julia Child

#23. Explore your web: the needs, the beliefs, and the emotions that are controlling you so there's more of you to give and so you can appreciate what's driving other people. It's the only way our world's going to change.

Tony Robbins

#24. There is always something through which things get into our minds. There is always something in mind which does not only control the mind, but also the life we live in totality!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#25. He's a good tough producer, yes. But I don't think that he's unreasonable unless he feels threatened. And when somebody's in your home, I think everybody in the home gets threatened.

Liza Minnelli

#26. 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

#27. Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

John F. Kennedy

#28. I think the guys who are really controlling their emotions ... are going to win.

Tiger Woods

#29. I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.

Eartha Kitt

#30. Reason is the gatekeeper, but it cannot resist the rushing torrents of emotion

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#31. Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#32. It's ironic, in a way. I've spent a lifetime controlling the emotions of others. Now I'm so afraid, I can't even function.

Brandon Sanderson

#33. Love never dies. It fizzles out maybe but it stays there in your heart buried by emotions controlling you. Once the fire is rekindled, love resurfaces again, breathes a new life.- Elizabeth's Love Quotes

Elizabeth E. Castillo

#34. Selfishness is the controlling force of sinful living. It is this motive which pulsates through the natural mind, emotions and will - self-pleasing, self-serving, living for self.

Walter J Chantry

#35. In Chestnut Hill money didn't talk, but it drank, and played a lot of golf.

Alistair McHarg

#36. Always stand by form against force.

John Ruskin

#37. Continue to reinvent. Keep things moving and changing and growing and always a little bit out of reach.

Jad Abumrad

#38. Most people assume that meditation is all about stopping thoughts, getting rid of emotions, somehow controlling the mind. But actually it's ... about stepping back, seeing the thought clearly, witnessing it coming and going.

Andy Puddicombe

#39. Whenever the boss has 'fun' activities, there's got to be a parable or a lesson. Employees feel like they're supposed to be taking notes.

Greg Daniels

#40. For a chance with you, I can wait.

Myra McEntire

#41. No one is free from something; something will surely be the reason for our actions!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#42. In short, it is madness. People try to manage their emotions by controlling external factors. Others let their emotions change based on what they experience outside of them. And none of it works. The truth is and has always been that you are in complete control of how you feel.

Dave Asch

#43. I don't fix anybody, because I don't think anybody's broken. I think what people have are patterns, and those can be changed. People quickly understand that what's controlling their thoughts and emotions are their values and rules, and they learn how to shift those.

Tony Robbins