Quotes about Emotions

I've been writing poems since I was in the Navy - to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that I never could in prose. Deeper, more personal things. I could write a poem about my mother that I could never tell my mother. Or feelings about being on a submarine that I would have been too embarrassed to share with fellow submariners.

We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.

The greatest happines of life is the conviction that we are loved-loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result.

I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.

The only way God can strengthen his presence in our will is to weaken his presence in our feelings. Otherwise we would become spiritual cripples, unable to walk without emotional crutches. This is why he gives us dryness, sufferings, and failures.

Psychology can make us feel good, but religion can make us be good.

Faith is like a rock; feelings are like waves.