Emotional quotes
3K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the knowledge that we belong to God and have found in God our refuge and our safety and that nothing, not even death, can take God away from us."
"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other."
"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."
"Any person capable of angering you becomes your master."
"I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep."
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"A good leader... maintains a balance between emotional drive and sound thinking."
"The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds"
"The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is."
"Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows."
"If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion."
"When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion."
"The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'"
"Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often."
"One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness."
"Remember that any time you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate."
"I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!"
"When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen."
"The key to success is emotional stability."
"People cheat on each other in a hundred different ways: indifference, emotional neglect, contempt, lack of respect, years of refusal of intimacy. Cheating doesn't begin to describe the ways that people let each other down."
"Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process."
"The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven."
"I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them."
"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility."
"The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion."
"I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely philosophical. I didn't want to. I'm not in the least a religious type. I want to be let alone, to feel I'm my own master; but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in."
