Quotes about Emotions

His expression was suddenly serious as the tip of his finger traced her lips. "I never understood why history is filled with stories of men who waged wars over a woman they loved. There are many women in the world, and it was beyond my grasp what made one woman special enough to go to such extremes." He pressed a kiss to her forehead. "Now I understand.

When we hold our thoughts up against God's standards of what is true and what is real, we can recognize and, with His help, learn to release many of our negative emotions, damaging thoughts, and destructive attitudes.

Aching for one thing and enjoying something else aren't mutually exclusive.

But healing isn't the same as recovery, is it? Healing slides way down in your heart and settles there.

Mr. Charnock said: Men that are great in the world are quick in passion, and are not so ready to forgive an injury, or bear with an offender, as one of a meaner rank. It is a want of power over that man's self that makes him do unbecoming things upon a provocation. A prince that can bridle his passions is a king over himself as well as over his subjects. God is slow to anger because great in power. He has no less power over Himself than over His creatures.

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?