Quotes about Emotions
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
- Khalil Gibran
We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.
- William Hazlitt
People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.
- Albert Ellis
You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice
- Gordon Hinckley
He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.
- Brigham Young
Those who do not weep, do not see.
- Victor Hugo
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
- Euripides
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
- Epictetus
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
- CS Lewis
Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.
- Frank Herbert
Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.
- Earl Nightingale
If you only talk to a person's head and not their heart people won't listen to you.
- Les Brown