Quotes about Emotions

Sometimes we must try to view the actions of those around us with forgiveness. We must realize that they are going on the only road they can see.

Our love for people doesn't end when they pass away. More often our feelings deepen as we realize how much they mean to us and how dearly we miss them.

A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably.

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.

The worse a person is the less he feels it.

Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.

He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.

There was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

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?

I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

The more you love, the more you suffer