Quotes About Mind Over Emotion

#1. As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature. - Author: Dalai Lama

#2. He felt another tremor of emotion as he saw the faces of Chuck and Newt and Teresa in his mind's eye. A - Author: James Dashner

#3. Ideas are not just counters used by the calculating mind; they are also golden vessels full of living feeling. "Freedom" is not a mere abstraction, it is also an emotion. ~Carl Jung, The Symbolic Life, Pages 310-311. - Author: C. G. Jung

#4. Every emotion that is in the human mind is there for a positive reason, and they must be used for positive reasons, anger is a positive emotion if it used correctly, so is aggression. God did not put anger and aggression in you just for negative purposes alone. - Author: Amos Wilson

#5. You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware. - Author: Eckhart Tolle

#6. You can win tournaments when you're mechanical, but golf is a game of emotion and adjustment. If you're not aware of what's happening to your mind and your body when you're playing, you'll never be able to be the very best you can be. - Author: Jack Nicklaus

#7. As my mind swirled into a whirlwind of emotion, the unthinkable happened. My heart filled with hope. - Author: Scott Hildreth

#8. I Can't Live without You. expresses the full meaning of true love. It is a beautiful and powerful emotion, words can never express, nor can the mind comprehend its connection within two souls. - Author: Ellen J. Barrier

#9. Tony knows the names of trees and birds. As we walk around, he points them out to me. I try to record them in my mind, but the information never holds. What matters to me is the emotional meaning of the objects. - Author: David Levithan

#10. 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. - Author: Dennis Cooper

#11. The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary. - Author: Baruch Spinoza

#12. The emotion of sex brings into being a state of mind. - Author: Napoleon Hill

#13. Please understand I am in full rebellion against my own mind, that when I live, I live by impulse, by emotion, by white heat. - Author: Anais Nin

#14. I write so the endangered thoughts roaming naked and vulnerable through the misty jungles of my mind aren't slain by the guns of practical living. - Author: Kim Krizan

#15. I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies ... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect. - Author: Susan Griffin

#16. People bicker so and have such rows. Even if they're fond of each other, they still seem to have rows and not to mind a bit whether they have them in public or not. - Author: Agatha Christie

#17. A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition. - Author: V. Vale

#18. Emotion, which is called a passivity of the soul, is a confused idea, whereby the mind affirms concerning its body, or any part thereof, a force for existence (existendi vis) greater or less than before, and by the presence of which the mind is determined to think of one thing rather than another. - Author: Baruch Spinoza

#19. If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity. - Author: Eckhart Tolle

#20. Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my own. I always begin with an emotion after I have established a character in my mind. I feel what they feel. I guess that is why it comes across so strongly. - Author: S.E. Hinton

#21. When there was a choice between love of a woman and hate of a man, her mind could cherish only one emotion, for her love might be a subject for laughter, but no one ever had ever mocked her hatred. - Author: Graham Greene

#22. Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart. - Author: Stephen King

#23. Emotions are what make us human. Make us real. The word 'emotion' stands for energy in motion. Be truthful about your emotions, and use your mind and emotions in your favor, not against yourself. - Author: Robert T. Kiyosaki

#24. 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. - Author: Anonymous

#25. In the boundless ocean of mind innumerable currents and tides shift with the shifting emotion of each several soul. - Author: F.W.H. Myers

#26. A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion. - Author: Debasish Mridha

#27. As I build sentences, I roll them sometimes on my mouth to taste them as I write them. I have this emptying of the mind and the focusing on that single thing, that infinitesimal moment and there is perfection, you know, as if I exist fully in that nanosecond of emotion. - Author: Trinity Jones

#28. A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith. - Author: Napoleon Hill

#29. Positivity doesn't just change the contents of your mind ... It widens the span of possibilities that you see. - Author: Barbara Fredrickson

#30. Organizing your emotions reclaims your power over any given drama. Nothing is stronger than your own mind. - Author: Jennifer Elisabeth

#31. If you believe everything you feel is an illusion then you're delusional. Your emotion is part you. You're made with it. Denying it and thinking it is all your mind, is denying your existence. - Author: Ann Marie Aguilar

#32. The mind may never achieve or express anything great unless emotion plays a part. - Author: Ben Johnson

#33. Jackson lead as he lived, sometimes with his heart, sometimes with his mind, sometimes with both. - Author: Jon Meacham

#34. I can't help but wonder why we, as Christ professing young women so easily submit our minds and emotions to an industry that openly mocks the purity and righteousness of our Heavenly Prince. - Author: Leslie Ludy

#35. The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive emotion. Well, then, cleanse the mind, that is the real job. It is the mind which is the Augean stables, not language. - Author: D.H. Lawrence

#36. When there is a fight of reason versus emotion and the mind wonders which one to follow, in most times, emotion wins over reason. But it is reason that should win and emotion shouldn't. - Author: Abu Sufyan Ibn Harb