Quotes about Emotions

Anger takes everything personally, as if everything is an intentional act to make your life miserable.

If you feel ugly you will experience shame. The two are bound together.

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship--never.

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.

Men are not disturbed by things, but by the views which they take of them.

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we're all the same.

I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many people you see in prison, unleashing war on their people, they are angry, and they take their anger and put it into a violent container.

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

An angry woman cannot respect a weak man.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.