Quotes about Emotion

Still, he never felt that the sermons he wrote at the cottage were good. By the time he got back to Washington to preach them, they no longer excited him. They seemed cold, lifeless. This was probably because Peter's best sermons rose out of the soil of emotion in his own heart. That emotion had to be a present, valid reality. He could not conjure it up.

In short, we would discover, as we should already, that logic is in the eye of the logician. (For instance, here's an idea for theorists and logicians: if women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long? I leave further improvisation up to you.)

Laughter is an orgasm of the mind.

Laughter is the only free emotion-the only one that can't be compelled.

People before paper; stories before statistics.

This vertical history feels more intimate and sensory than written history. It's been reaching out all along, I just wasn't paying attention.

There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook.

My heart got to thumping. You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

The soul attracts that which it secretly harbours; that which it loves, and also that which it fears;

We don't understand with our brains but with our hearts. That's where the image of God is.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.