Top 100 Quotes About Emotions
#1. I will not let triggers, flashbacks,
nightmares control my emotions.
I will not let those tried
to destroy me win this war.
I have awakened and I will
find peace with myself.
Julie Jewels Smoot
#2. Throw in the intensity of emotions that come with that bittersweet summer sandwiched between high school graduation and the rest of your life ...
Emily Giffin
#3. Life cannot impose on you that which you aren't willing to accept. Don't let your emotions/feelings push you towards accepting less than what you truly deserve. Believe in yourself, be confident and stay focused. The best lies before and within you...it's all matter of your choice. Choose wisely!
Kemi Sogunle
#4. You know, you don't work 30 something years in this business without knowing how to push yourself. So, I just kept pushing myself and pushing myself. The other thing that happens is when your hormones get out of whack your emotions come up.
Marie Osmond
#5. respond rather than react to situations, people or environment. Let go of limiting emotions such as fear, frustration and anger and start to express your emotions to others, this is essential to a healthy wellbeing.
Avis J. Williams
#6. We need to understand how destructive emotions affect us and constructive emotions can help us, so that we can maintain our peace of mind.
Dalai Lama
#8. How my emotions starred as I played! During one of this tug-of-war contest between knowing right and doing wrong, I wrote the words to a song on my own for the first time.
Jeremy Camp
#9. super-size emotions had saved me. God knows, I'd spent enough time wrestling with them, but I'd never thought before about how much of what animates us as human beings - or semi-human beings - depends on our feelings. Without
Jacqueline Carey
#10. A woman I knew just drowned herself
The well was deep and muddy
She was just shaking off futility
Or punishing somebody
My friends were calling up all day yesterday
All emotions and abstractions
It seems we all live so close to that line
and so far from satisfaction
Joni Mitchell
#11. When we forgive, our emotions evolve and reveal the futility of carrying the baggage of anger, antipathy, hostility and hatred. We emerge out of those dark corridors of fear, angst and insecurity.
Balroop Singh
#13. The passions, the emotions, the affective domain of man's consciousness, are a part of nature's order too. The central part.
Robert M. Pirsig
#14. Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show their feelings through their action or through dialog.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#15. Love is like this amazing, all-consuming force that sneaks up on you and steals all those brain cells that make you think rationally and replaces them with emotions so powerful that you're impotent to change their course.
Melissa Foster
#16. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
T. S. Eliot
#17. Political activists rarely like fiction of any kind. Literature is about ambiguity, mixed emotions, and guilty pleasures. Politics is about ideals and action.
Christopher Bram
#19. It is not uncommon for a leader to win a debate - or even an election - who is intellectually inferior to his opponent but is better able to incite the emotions of the masses.
Noah Lukeman
#20. My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
Ingmar Bergman
#21. Emotions retain a timeless photographic memory. Good or bad, you can never forget how a person makes you feel.
Carl Henegan
#22. I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.
Romola Garai
#23. An (emotional) vampire goes in for the kill by stirring up your emotions. Pushing your buttons throws you off center, which renders you easier to drain. Of all the emotional types, empaths are often the most devestated.
Judith Orloff
#24. This work led cognitive therapists such as Aaron Beck, David D. Burns, and Albert Ellis to build treatment around the idea that our thoughts shape our emotions, not the other way around. By
Tom Butler-Bowdon
#25. There's going to be highs and there's going to be lows, try to keep your emotions out of it a little bit.
Brock Larson
#26. 'The Human Condition' is me exploring some ideas and thoughts that I have that don't fit one sound. I'm giving emotions a sound - it's a fusion of genres. There are four EPs in 'The Human Condition'; each title is a different emotion.
Wynter Gordon
#27. Never forget this: It's easier to change your mind and emotions by taking action than it is to change your actions by trying to think and feel differently.
Stephen Guise
#28. Men aren't in touch with their emotions, and don't share enough [?]
Meg Cabot
#29. It may be that the strongest instinct of the human race, stronger than sex or hunger, is curiosity: the absolute need to know. It can and often does motivate a lifetime, it kills more than cats, and the prospect of satisfying it can be the most exciting of emotions.
Jack Finney
#30. I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a whore, and then come back to write about my thoughts, my emotions, as that person. But I am not omniscient. I have to live my life, and it is the only one I'll ever have.
Sylvia Plath
#31. Poetry is painting with words where you create a masterpiece by spilling your feelings and emotions onto the blank paper.
Avijeet Das
#32. People think of hearts when they think of love, but a heart is a bloody organ in the body. It doesn't have any emotions. It's like a metaphor for love that has nothing to do with what love actually is.
E. Lockhart
#33. When you stop being owned by your emotions you'll stop feeling vulnerable to people. ~ Remiel
Aria J. Wolfe
#34. 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
#36. When we are not connected with our emotions, we are not connected to ourselves.
David W. Earle
#37. He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.
Ayn Rand
#38. With your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs under control, you can have as much as the richest man and be as peaceful as a Buddhist monk . You can experience inner-happiness and euphoric love.
Maddy Malhotra
#39. The problem with feelings is neither that our moods fluctuate nor that our emotions seem to fail us. The greater dilemma is that most have only learned how to dance to one type of feeling.
T.K. Coleman
#40. Some of us, after all, are very good at expressing emotions and feelings, which means that we are far more emotionally contagious than the rest of us. Psychologists call these people "senders.
Malcolm Gladwell
#41. When a society has doubts about its future, it tends to produce spokesmen whose main appeal is to the emotions, who argue from intuitions, and whose claim to be truth-bearers rests solely on intense personal feeling.
Kenneth Tynan
#42. This is what people don't understand. When they might see me do something that's not 'God-like,' then they say, 'Well, I thought you were saved?' I am saved. I'm not perfect. I have emotions still. My name's still Gary. These things here are not all cleaned up. I'm showing you my path.
Gary Sheffield
#43. One's emotions are intensified in Paris - one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a positive source of joy to live here, and there is nobody so miserable as a Parisian in exile from his town.
Nancy Mitford
#44. Our emotions affect the atmosphere around us, and other people, because emotions influence the electromagnetic field our heart emits.
Sam Owen
#46. May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans? I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant
Leonard Nimoy
#47. God gave me emotions so I could experience life, not destroy it
Lysa TerKeurst
#48. You hold in your hand the camel's-hair brush of a painter of Life. You stand before the vast white canvas of Time. The paints are your thoughts, emotions and acts.
Wilferd Peterson
#49. Artists shouldn't wait until they are told what their art should be, they shouldn't follow trends or allow other people to influence their work, an artist should only create from the strongest emotions within their heart
Andrew James Pritchard
#50. The more externally chaotic the world becomes, the more we need sound internal logic, especially when it comes to our emotions.
Chip Conley
#51. We must love God with our minds, allowing our intellect to inform our emotions, rather than the other way around.
Jen Wilkin
#52. Intentional reflection connects thoughts with emotions and leads to transformation. As Robert Saucy reminds us: "The deeper something is in our heart, the more it influences our life.
Joanne J. Jung
#53. Whenever it rains, I remember him, not as a tear that hails down as a raindrop, but as a God of fertility. As, every time I remember him, his memories conceive a baby of emotions in me!
Mehek Bassi
#54. It definitely helps to have the acting experience going into singing, because when you're singing, you have to portray the emotion you were feeling when you wrote the song. They're the same thing, in a way; it's expressing your emotions through words.
Ryan Newman
#55. The spiritual path has no negative emotions and we are spiritual beings having human experience. The experiences need courage to complete the cleansing process. It defines the design that conforms to the external definitions of what we are.
Robert Jordan
#56. Emotions can even affect whether certain genes are turned "on" or "off" - altering, for example, our bodies' response to stress.
Mario Beauregard
#57. I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is so connected to emotions.
Anna Camp
#58. I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients also had major impairments in their ability to make decisions.
Antonio Damasio
#59. Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from what's going on and what you should be involved in.
Buzz Aldrin
#60. In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.
Ariel Gore
#61. A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
Hans Hofmann
#63. I've always followed my heart. With every project that I've ever chosen, it's been something that I felt I couldn't live without, and that I couldn't spend another day of my life not knowing that I didn't do that role, gave my all to that role, and gave all of my emotions and soul to it.
Chloe Grace Moretz
#64. You're sparse." "Sparse?" "You're rake thin with obese emotions." His
Suanne Laqueur
#65. When I play, I'm boiling inside. I just try not to show it because it's a lack of composure, and if you give in to your emotions after one loss, you're liable to have three or four in a row.
Chris Evert
#66. Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#68. The heterosexual emotions of young children can find a natural, wholesome and innocent outlet with other children; in this form they are a part of play, and like all play, they afford a preparation for adult activities.
Bertrand Russell
#69. Violence is always an effort toward greater freedom or love. Openness is freedom and love. Even the most violent or self-destructive emotions are rooted in the heart's need for openness, to be free, to give and receive love.
David Deida
#70. Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
Jorge Luis Borges
#71. The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.
Lester Bangs
#72. She didn't want to be liberated from her emotions, but to have their importance confirmed.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#73. Emotions. Swelling waves that we are so often powerless to navigate. Is there some meaning to them? Of course, you just have to learn how to properly manage them.
Ruben Papian
#74. The continual mismanagement is what keeps us from enjoying the full pallet of emotions that truly enrich us.
Ruben Papian
#75. My style is the paparazzi approach which is spontaneous, unrehearsed, off-guard. The beauty I'm after is inherent, more natural. Genuine emotions, real emotions, that's what I look for.
Ron Galella
#76. If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.
Martin Seligman
#77. It's shaming sometimes, how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. Who, for decorum's sake, has ever slowed his heart, or muted a blush?
Ian McEwan
#78. Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.
Dana Spiotta
#79. I realize now that no simple, single-factor theory of depression will ever work. Depression is partly in our genes, partly in our childhood experience, partly in our way of thinking, partly in our brains, partly in our ways of handling emotions. It affects our whole being.
Richard O'Connor
#80. The corridors of success are illuminated more by our emotions.
Balroop Singh
#81. I think that emotions affect you as much as x-rays and vitamins and car crashes.
Douglas Coupland
#82. Kindness is love in action, not feeling emotions or thoughts of empathy only. Kindness is doing!
Shannon L. Alder
#83. Have the private emotions also their gutter presses?
E. M. Forster
#84. Privately, I felt that living in that privileged environment, where her emotions ran unchecked, had made her oversensitive and unstable.
Minae Mizumura
#85. Take some advice from an old woman, Abbie. There's no such thing as a wrong decision. You make your choices in life based on the cards played to you and your emotions at the time. Whatever will be will be, you can't change fate.' 'Thank
Charlotte Fallowfield
#86. There is a basic emotional spectrum from which we cannot and should not escape, and I believe that depression is in that spectrum, located near not only grief but also love. Indeed I believe that all the strong emotions
Andrew Solomon
#87. Your emotions are exposed when you play golf: humility, pride, anger, it all comes out with each swing. You lay it all on the line.
Bryant Gumbel
#88. She'd followed her emotions, allowed her fear to keep her from hearing the will of God and from trusting that will.
MaryLu Tyndall
#89. The truth of it is when you get an audience to laugh and camp along with you, it's much easier to scare 'em again because they're using two sides of their emotions. It's much easier to set them up for a good cheap thrill scare again.
Robert Englund
#90. War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.
Richard Engel
#91. There is a time in the life of every predicament where it is ripe for resolution. Emotions provide the cue to act when a problem is big enough to see, yet still small enough to solve. By understanding your emotions, you can move adeptly through your current challenges and prevent future ones.
Travis Bradberry
#92. The problem with the emotions is not that they are untamed forces or vestiges of our animal past; it is that they were designed to propagate copies of the genes that built them rather than to promote happiness, wisdom, or moral values.
Steven Pinker
#93. Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.
Dagobert D. Runes
#94. I let the music set the tone of the lyrics.I allowed myself to write more about relationships and emotions, in a girly way almost.
Jose Gonzalez
#95. National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.
Tariq Ramadan
#96. Happiness is just being you, where you are right now. Allow yourself to be you. Shut off all the silly thoughts and desires and crazy emotions
Frederick Lenz
#97. The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body's reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.
Eckhart Tolle
#98. You have to have a personal connection. You have to really want to do it, because if you don't, investing yourself personally, your thoughts, your emotions, yourself into a part, is something you're not going to want to do as much.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#99. Most adult emotions are emergent properties. They are subjective mental states that represent the convergence of more primitive
Anonymous
#100. In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.
Ken Burns