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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON EMOTION
You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.
Greg Anderson (American author, "The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness")
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore De Balzac (1799-1850, French novelist)
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 (1948-1982, American rock journalist)
It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973, Anglo-Irish novelist)
Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.
Robert Browning (1812-1889, British poet)
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924, Polish-born British novelist)
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924, Polish-born British novelist)
It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936, British author)
You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes.
Margaret Drabble (1939-, British novelist)
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
Max Eastman (American commentator, writer)
Our emotions are only "incidents in the effort to keep day and night together.
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965, American-born British poet, critic)
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
Horace (BC 65-8, Italian poet)
There can be no transforming of darkness into light, and of apathy into movement, without emotion.
Carl Jung (1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist)
The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
Jean Baptiste LaCordaire
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930, British author)
If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions.
Og Mandino (1923-1996, American motivational author, speaker) Author's website: www.ogmandino.com
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900, German philosopher)
We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900, German philosopher)
When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.
John Enoch Powell (1912-1998, British statesman)
Control your emotion or it will control you.
Japanese Proverb (Sayings of Japanese origin)
The heart is half a prophet.
Yiddish Proverb (Sayings of Yiddish origin)
All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926, German poet)
Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
Joseph Roux (1834-1905, French priest, writer)
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970, British philosopher, mathematician, essayist)
Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
George Santayana (1863-1952, American philosopher, poet)
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
George Santayana (1863-1952, American philosopher, poet)
Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.
Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979, American Roman Catholic clergyman, broadcaster)
A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Proverbs 17.8
The heart is forever inexperienced.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup.
Author Unknown
Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
Marquis De Vauvenargues (1715-1747, French moralist)
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
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