Quotes about Emotions

I cried for all of us. There was no end to the American sadness and the American madness. Someday we'll all start laughing and roll on the ground when we realize how funny it's been. Until then there is a lugubrious seriousness I love in all of this.

I think love can be really tough. Because it involves ultimately an honesty to the nth degree that you are capable of. Once said, you've lost your deposit. It's best if you don't say it.

We never live so intensely as when we love strongly. We never realize ourselves so vividly as when we are in full glow of love for others.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

It is not the size of the ring, but the size of the love.

In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them

you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry

When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.