Quotes about Emotion
We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You can't move people to action unless you first move them with emotion.... The heart comes before the head.
- John Maxwell
You can act your way into feeling long before you can feel your way into action. If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.
- John Maxwell
The emotion you continually feed is the one that will dominate your life.
- John Maxwell
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
- John Maxwell
Stories tell us who we are. They… Inspire us. Connect with us. Animate our reasoning process. Give us permission to act. Fire our emotions. Give us pictures of who we aspire to be. Stories are us.
- John Maxwell
Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
- Corrie Ten Boom
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.
- Virginia Woolf
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history
- Henry Ward Beecher
A friendship that can end, never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer