Quotes about Emotions

We may assume that we are in control of our responses to the world, but that's far from the case. If two people can see the same thing and have opposite reactions, their responses are controlling them, not the other way around.

Do you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping?

There'll be days when I'm blue or angry or frustrated. Days when it seems like nothing's going right. Sometimes I feel lonely, or I might wish my life had taken a different turn or two. But when you've got the Holy Spirit living in your heart, Pete, you know for sure that God is walking with you. He's beside you and in you and all around you. And that's what I call joy.

You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.

Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love.

I collapsed to my knees and looked up at the predawn sky. "I hate you," I said softly. "I love you," the voice whispered back.

Grudges, if left to fester, can become serious maladies. Like a painful ailment they can absorb all of our time & attention.

Anger is the mother of a whole brood of evil actions.

That was all; but all their intercourse had been made up of just such inarticulate flashes, when they seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods…

Old man — don't let's forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives, and that we obey them without knowing it.

...that freshness of feeling, that delicate honor which shrinks from wounding even a sentiment...

When Heaven has taken from us some object of our love, how sweet is it to have a bosom whereon to recline our heads, and into which we may pour the torrent of our tears! Grief, with such a comfort, is almost a luxury!