Quotes about Emotion

Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, 'I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.' That is why dogs make such a hit. They are so glad to see us that they almost jump out of their skins. So, naturally, we are glad to see them.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

You can't move people to action unless you first move them with emotion.... The heart comes before the head.

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.

The emotion you continually feed is the one that will dominate your life.

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.

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.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

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.

Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.

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