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Monday 4 August 2014

Emotions Quotes and Sayings

Emotions Quotes


To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart. ~Francesco Guicciardini


Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. ~Vincent Van Gogh, 1889


Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, "feminine" ones, that is, no anger please, but it's okay to turn on the waterworks. ~Una Stannard


But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions? ~Vincent Van Gogh


One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields — even to sadness. ~Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ry, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate


Memory is always faulty. Emotions are always true. ~Author Unknown


Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness. ~John Sterling


The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. ~Jim Rohn


How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. ~Claude Debussy


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


The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. ~Khalil Gibran


Too much emotion is like none at all. ~Du Mu, translated


Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. ~Andre Gide


Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. ~Roger Ebert


And Lancelot stood on the shore, with an awful paleness in his face, as if the ghost of everything that might have made his life pure and noble was whispering woe to his soul forever. ~August Bell, "Quicksands of Love," 1887


Eventually you come to realize that most people aren't looking for a fight but for someone to surrender to. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


Yes, that's the worst of it. It's a desperately vexatious thing that, after all one's reflections and quiet determinations, we should be ruled by moods that one can't calculate on beforehand. ~George Eliot, Adam Bede


Joy and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine.
Under every grief and pine
Runs a joy with silken twine.
~William Blake (1757-1827), "Auguries of Innocence"


Now I am not one of the most constant creatures alive myself, and am apt to run through the spectrum which has the blues at the bottom about once a week. ~Byron Caldwell Smith (1849-1877), letter to Kate Stephens


If you don't manage your emotions, then your emotions will manage you. ~Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman, Transforming Anxiety


Feelings are like toes! They have to breathe free or they'll stink to high heaven! ~Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo video game) written by Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka, and Toshihiro Kawabata


We got married in a fever hotter than a pepper sprout. ~June Carter Cash


Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf. ~Jonatan MĂ„rtensson


Clouds open up into rain,
You too should release your pain.
~Terri Guillemets


...that freshness of feeling, that delicate honor which shrinks from wounding even a sentiment... ~George Eliot, Adam Bede


Melancholic madness strapped to your chest and you have no way of releasing the fear. ~Daniel, 


...having planted her little thorn to rankle in [his] heart... ~August Bell, "Quicksands of Love," 1887


The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. ~Albert Einstein


Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. ~Mark Twain


When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. ~Dale Carnegie

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