Quotes about Emotions

We have a terrible time understanding love, because we confuse it with desire. Desire and love are two utterly different kinds of things. Not only is desire not love; it is often opposed to love. Right action is the act of love, regardless of the desires of anyone involved.

Ignoring our emotions is turning our back on reality; listening to our emotions ushers us into reality. And reality is where we meet God.

Emotions are not amoral—they vocalize the inner working of our souls and are as tainted as any other portion of our personality.

The route to facing what we feel is not by devaluing the darkness of what we feel, but by valuing the deep structure of why we don't want to feel. Once we face why feeling is so hard, then we can move beyond what we feel to the deeper energy within us that keeps us from grappling honestly with our emotions. Then we will not only feel more deeply, but—more importantly—we will feel our feelings in a way that exposes our struggle with God.

iI we view difficult emotions as problems to be solved, we will end up looking for answers that will work rather than pursuing relationship with God, regardless of immediate outcome. A determination to resolve our emotional struggles inevitably subordinates God as a servant of our healing rather than a Person to be praised.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

You have Facebook? Yup. You have Whatsapp? Yup. You have love? Forgot to install it.

"I love you and I don't want to lose you. Because my life has been better since the day I found out."

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

"Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it."

6. All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.