Quotes about Emotions
The best remedy for anger is delay.
— Brigham Young
The spirit is strengthened in sorrow. — Happiness is good for the body, but sorrow strengthens the spirit.
— Bruce Lee
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
— Bruce Lee
In an instant's compass, great hearts sometimes condense to one deep pang, the sum total of those shallow pains kindly diffused through feebler men's whole lives.
— Herman Melville
it's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.
— Herman Melville
Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Confound not faith and feeling together. They are distinct. Faith is ours to exercise. Believe, believe. Let your faith take hold of the blessing, and it is yours by faith. Your feelings have nothing to do with this faith.
— Ellen White
When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity.
— Gloria Steinem
A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
— Cicero
Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.
— Zig Ziglar
Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.
— Henri Nouwen