Quotes about Emotions

but I do believe that the only way out of deep sadness is to go with it and through it.

the little boy couldn't feel and admit the pain until he was sufficiently sure that love was there.

So long as we all cling to our prejudices and identify with our preconceived views and feelings, genuine human community is impossible. You have to get to the point where you can break free from your feelings. Otherwise in the end you won't have any feelings; they'll have you.

Your heart needs to be broken—and broken open—at least once to discover what your heart means and to have a heart for others.

The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.

Many of your relationship problems are not really relationship problems. They're personal problems that spill over into relationships.

We accept our humanity intellectually, but not emotionally. When faced with our own limitations, we react with irritation, anger, and resentment. We want to be taller (or shorter), smarter, stronger, more talented, more beautiful, and wealthier. We want to have it all and do it all, and we become upset when it doesn't happen. Then when we notice that God gave others characteristics we don't have, we respond with envy, jealousy, and self-pity.

We often forget that God has emotions, too. He feels things very deeply. The Bible tells us that God grieves, gets jealous and angry, and feels compassion, pity, sorrow, and sympathy as well as happiness, gladness, and satisfaction. God loves, delights, gets pleasure, rejoices, enjoys, and even laughs! 2

Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent.

Faith, not feelings, pleases God.

Focus on their feelings, not the facts. Begin with sympathy, not solutions.

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.