Quotes about Emotions

My first paintings were of my dreams. They were more real to me than the reality I was living in--I didn't like my reality. I remember waking up, and the memory of my dreams was so strong that I would write them down, and then I would paint them, in just two very particular colors, a deep green and a night blue. Never anything else.

To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings by changing your breathing.

If your deepest feelings are reserved for something other than Almighty God, then that something other is an emotional idol... if you get more excited about material things than the simple yet profound fact that your sin was nailed to the cross by the sinless Son of God, then you're bowing down to Tammuz.

If you want to discover your God-ordained passions, then you need to identify what makes you sad, mad, or glad.

One of the mistakes we make as parents and as leaders is this: we do everything within our power to create emotional and relational and spiritual biospheres. We avoid conflict. We mitigate risk. We minimize discomfort. We sidestep sacrifice. Then we wonder why people grow to a certain stature and stop. We wonder why leaders fall.

When you are lying in bed angry with your backs turned towards each other, imagine Satan sleeping in the space between you.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy must have somebody to divide it with.

It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

Our response to an offense determines our future.

The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.

Never base your faith on your feelings. Base it on God's Word.

When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost.