Top 100 Quotes About Our Emotions
#1. When you are in neutral, you are completely open to whatever information needs to come through at that time for the highest good. We simply can't be neutral if our emotions get in the way.
Catherine Carrigan
#2. One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape ... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
Marilyn French
#3. Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.
Jim Rohn
#4. We can honor our emotions after any traumatic event by moving through the experience centered in the heart with the goal of reaching the light on the other side.
Molly Friedenfeld
#5. As we free our breath through diaphragmatic breathing, we relax our emotions and let go our body tensions.
Gay Hendricks
#6. Our emotions are the way we experience the world. They are never wrong. It is only the conscious mind mismanaging that gets in the way.
Ruben Papian
#7. We can't all be like Ryan Seacrest ... the perfect platform manifestation of a human. I don't know if we all have those gifts for restraining our emotions ... or whatever it is he does.
Ze Frank
#8. Ciss says, 'People have less emotions than actors think they have. For much of the time we hide our emotions, we haven't time for emotions. Our brains work so much faster than our emotions.
Antony Sher
#9. Ignoring our emotions is turning our back on reality. Listening to our emotions ushers us into reality. And reality is where we meet God. . . . Emotions are the language of the soul. They are the cry that gives the heart a voice. . .
Peter Scazzero
#10. Our emotions are made by God, yet they too must bow before Him
Laura Story
#11. The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.
Pema Chodron
#12. Integration arises from intimacy with our emotions and our bodies, as well as with our thoughts.
Sharon Salzberg
#13. Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power!
Phyllis Bottome
#15. In Israel we tend to be carried away by our emotions.
Ehud Olmert
#16. Though we are emotional beings, we are not our emotions. Remember this the next time you find yourself struggling.
Kaiden Blake
#17. Though our emotions are real and powerful, they don't have the final say on our lives. Trust your emotions, but don't put your trust in your emotions. Put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Samuel Kee
#18. There is a time lag between the activation of brain systems that excite our emotions and impulses and the maturation of brain systems that allow us to check these feelings and urgings - it's like driving a car with a sensitive gas pedal and bad brakes.
Laurence Steinberg
#19. Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.
Seneca The Younger
#20. When problems arise, so do our emotions, based on our perception and associated feelings of whatever is going on
Mavis Mazhura
#21. Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.
Dalai Lama
#22. When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
W. Clement Stone
#23. Our emotions are not transformed by trying harder, but by seeing more clearly.
Mike Bickle
#24. Sin, like a deadly cancer, has invaded every area of our lives: our bodies, our minds, our emotions, our wills - everything.
Billy Graham
#25. Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.
Wassily Kandinsky
#26. The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort. How do we practice with difficulty, with our emotions, with the unpredictable encounters of an ordinary day?
Pema Chodron
#27. The world is more random than we can imagine. That's what our emotions can't understand.
Jonah Lehrer
#28. We practice mastering ourselves in the moment so that we can better open ourselves to being a servant leader and to harness our emotions and choose what to do with our reactions.
Lyssa Adkins
#29. Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and to shape the course of destiny. Words can not only create emotions, they create actions. And from our actions flow the results of our lives.
Tony Robbins
#30. Sometimes our emotions get in the way of our ability to make clear decisions and this was one of them. But I don't think you should regret it. Everything happens for a reason.
Loni Flowers
#31. The thrills, the turmoil, the passion, the stunning surprises of that roller coaster ride in '72 caused our emotions to run wild
Harry Sinden
#32. Our emotions are the continuous waves and undercurrents that enable us to flow but in some instances, when hold on to them, suppress them or repress them, or express the destructively, they disrupt the flow
Mavis Mazhura
#33. When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.
Robert Greene
#34. What does Art do for us? It gives shape to our emotions, makes them visible, and, in so doing, places a seal of eternity upon them, a seal representing all those works that, by means of a particular form, have incarnated the universal nature of human emotions.
Muriel Barbery
#35. The power of prayer is so profound that it can assuage our emotions. It calms the mind, dilutes all our worries, gives an anchor to fears and endows us with a remarkable peace of mind.
Balroop Singh
#36. Avoiding our pain is needlessly exhausting. Pain can not be killed. When we attempt to bury our pain, it rises up from the grave of our emotions, haunting us, until we acknowledge its presence. We can heal our pain when we allow it to move through us.
Jaeda DeWalt
#37. But our mothers are our first contact with the world of the feminine and the world of our emotions, which are closely related.
Massimilla Harris
#38. It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes ... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#39. The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.
Robert Greene
#40. Our mind, keep all the record of our emotions, wrapped in hope and preserve it.
Kishore Bansal
#41. Most adults don't sing anymore. We have to break that, and start singing the name of the Almighty One, try to cultivate the emotions. We have to elevate our emotions to the maximum, to the limit, and that then turns into spiritual bliss.
Dharma Mittra
#42. Writers are like tricksters. Their words lure us to embark on journeys and unlock our emotions.
Ogwo David Emenike
#43. My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions, expand our sympathies in directions we may not anticipate and may not even wish.
Joyce Carol Oates
#44. We don't need to complicate all the "reasons" behind our emotions. It's much simpler than that. Two categories .. good feelings, bad feelings.
Rhonda Byrne
#45. An attitude is much deeper than just our emotions or the thoughts we think. It's a decision we make based on our core beliefs and values.
Toni Sorenson
#46. Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.
Paul Valery
#47. Once we acknowledge that God is the main character, only then can we even begin to get to that place where we're no longer tempted to let our emotions drive us. We
Craig Groeschel
#48. Okay, listen to me," the old man said, his voice muffled behind his own swath of fabric. "We need to set some things straight before we get up there. We can't let our emotions rule everything. No matter what we see, our number one priority has to be saving as many people as possible.
James Dashner
#49. The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.
George Eliot
#50. What love is to the heart, appetite is to the stomach. The stomach is the conductor that leads and livens up the great orchestra of our emotions.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#51. We're human beings, and we want stories. We're always going to be entertained and have our emotions touched by humanity and by things that we recognize in our own lives. So whilst every now and again we'll be happy to watch a bubblegum film, it's never gonna be the only things that get made.
Peter Jackson
#52. When Scripture talks about the heart, it's not talking about that life-sustaining muscle. It's talking about our entire inner being. The heart is the seat of our emotions, the seat of decisive action, and the seat of belief (as well as doubt).
Billy Graham
#53. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.
Ingmar Bergman
#54. Color was not given to us in order that we imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.
Henri Matisse
#55. Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.
Tariq Ramadan
#56. It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.
Andrei Codrescu
#57. Where do you draw the line between actions carried out due to an internal need and actions that were nothing more than a slim version of one ceremony or another that help us define our emotions?
Yoav Blum
#58. Optimal sculpting of key neural networks through healthy early relationships allows us to think well of ourselves, trust others, regulate our emotions, maintain positive expectations, and utilize our intellectual and emotional intelligence in moment-to-moment
Louis Cozolino
#59. Yes, well, rein it in, Prom King. British people have been successfully repressing our emotions since before your country was even a thing." We
Holly Bourne
#60. Of course I need not remind you how fluid a thing thought is with me
with us all
and of what an evanescent substance are our emotions made.
Oscar Wilde
#61. Instead of letting our emotions run amok with our minds, we can use our minds as tools that allow us to build realities that serve us better,
and we attract what we are meant to attract because we are aware and self-empowered enough to choose most of the time.
Jay Woodman
#62. Emotions are faster than thoughts. That means emotion trumps competencies, behavior, and character unless we learn to be self-aware and channel our emotions consciously.
Shawn Kent Hayashi
#63. Emotionally, our faith is often muddled by fear, hesitancy, and doubt. But our feelings become irrelevant when Jesus is the object of our faith - when He alone is the One in whom we trust ... not ourselves, not our emotions, not our abilities ... but Him alone.
Wendy Blight
#64. It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
Damon Galgut
#65. Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.
Okakura Kakuzo
#67. The corridors of success are illuminated more by our emotions.
Balroop Singh
#68. War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.
Richard Engel
#69. We must love God with our minds, allowing our intellect to inform our emotions, rather than the other way around.
Jen Wilkin
#70. The more externally chaotic the world becomes, the more we need sound internal logic, especially when it comes to our emotions.
Chip Conley
#71. Our emotions affect the atmosphere around us, and other people, because emotions influence the electromagnetic field our heart emits.
Sam Owen
#72. 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
#73. When we are not connected with our emotions, we are not connected to ourselves.
David W. Earle
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. Unresolved grief is created when we don't allow ourselves to work through feelings as they arise. If we deny having painful feelings or put them on a shelf, they don't simply evaporate. Rather, unresolved feelings gnaw at our energy, prey on our emotions, and generally debilitate us.
Sue Patton Thoele
#77. Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions.
Starhawk
#78. Being detached means recognizing our emotions as what they are: clouds, sunbursts, weather. They pass. So rather than feed on my anger or sadness, rolling about in it like a pig in its own filth, I see that it is weather, and know that in time it will pass
Suzanne Morrison
#79. Our emotions are different but we have them. We never cast a cold eye on life or death. Don't misunderstand our seeming serenity. After all, we live in a world of perfect trust in The Maker, and we are keenly aware that humans often do not, and we feel an active sorrow for them.
Anne Rice
#80. I'm not sure it matters how old you are. If something affects you, it affects you. No one has the right to say how long or in what way other people are allowed to feel things. Our emotions are our own.
Riley Hart
#81. 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
#82. That night we didn't just have sex, we made love to each other for the first time. Our bodies connected on a level they never had before. They connected with our heads and our hearts. Our emotions poured out through our caresses, kisses, and strokes.
Michelle Dare
#83. One remembers different persons differently, some by the impact they have made on our emotions, and others by the impression they leave in our minds.
Hallie Burnett
#84. The journey into wholeness means we have to learn to respect the other voice that speaks within us. It means to pay attention to our emotions, thoughts, dreams and fantasies even when they're unpleasant and objectionable.
Bud Harris
#85. Aloneness exaggerates our emotions and sensitivity.
Beth Moore
#86. Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.
Os Guinness
#87. Our emotions
Are only "incidents"
In the effort to keep day and night together.
T. S. Eliot
#88. What we eat affects our emotions and can create a predisposition for both psychological and physical disorders. Just as wrong emotion can upset our digestion, so wrong digestion can upset our emotions.
Sarah R. Gray
#89. Books are merely translations of our emotions into words that allow us to connect on an almost blood transfusion level.
Ksenia Anske
#90. In the vast catastrophe of the European war our emotions had to be broken up for us, and put at an angle from us, before we could allow ourselves to feel them in poetry or fiction.
Virginia Woolf
#91. This Fudo Myo-o, whose name means "Immovable Wisdom King," is represented with a sword to cut through our ignorance and a rope to bind up our emotions
Miyamoto Musashi
#92. A language that takes our emotions seriously and gives them real weight in our lives encourages us to think and be and act differently.
Dorothee Solle
#93. The road that connects our thoughts to the ears of others is our tongue. What travel on this road is our word. Our action is the energy which transmits our emotions to the eyes of others and causes a great change in their minds
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#94. Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.
Sharon Salzberg
#95. I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.
Annie Baker
#96. We are not men. We are women. We feel more deeply, express our emotions more frequently, and get moody monthly. It's normal. It's nature's way. And we don't necessarily have to medicate away the essence of who we are to make others more comfortable.
Julie Holland
#97. Death. The end of sense-perception, of being controlled by our emotions, of mental activity, of enslavement to our bodies.
Marcus Aurelius
#98. Whether we like it or not, we are puppets of our emotions. We make complex decisions by consulting our feelings, not our thoughts. Against our best intentions, we substitute the question, "What do I think about this?" with "How do I feel about this?" So, smile! Your future depends on it.
Rolf Dobelli
#99. The fact that everyone doesn't react in exactly the same way to the same situation implies that our emotions are created within us, based on our past experiences.
Minx M.
#100. Of course. Opal is toying with our emotions for her own gratification. Nothing more. She wishes to place herself in a position of power, emotionally.
Eoin Colfer
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