Quotes about Emotions

Happiness is not dependent on happenings, but on relationships in the happenings.

Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings…it's something we make inside ourselves.

Once we acknowledge that God is the main character, only then can we even begin to get to that place where we're no longer tempted to let our emotions drive us.

Not only did he unleash his emotions through rivers of tears, but for several days he denied his body food so he could pray and seek the God of heaven.

Feelings are much like waves. We can't stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf.

Life has trained many of us to think of love as temporary and conditional.

But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.

If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it's because we have been cultivating that particular habit for a very long time.

I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.

My mama used to say if you frown on the outside long enough, eventually you'll grow a frown on the inside, too.