Quotes about Emotion

I keep on dying, Because I love to live.

She would have been more surprised than I had she taken me in her arms and wept at losing me. Her world was bordered on all sides with work, duty, religion and her place. I don't think she ever knew that a deep-brooding love hung over everything she touched.

but the power of being emotionally stuck is far greater than the power of reason."2

Nobody has ever loved us in a way that met our needs.

Sometimes we praise because we choose to; other times we praise because we want to. Occasionally we praise because we have to—because, if we don't, the rocks will cry out!

One of the most mysterious aspects about God communicated in Scripture is that His knowledge about what would transpire didn't necessarily preclude His heightened hopes of something different. He didn't always spare Himself the shock of something appalling, even though He saw it coming. Even a predestined conclusion didn't spare God the emotion of the result. Perhaps most significantly, knowing why didn't keep God from asking why (Isaiah 5:4 and Mark 15:34).

Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart." LUKE 2:19

Someone suddenly had direct, unabashed access to my heart.

The pain will not kill you. It will be a reminder that you are very much alive, engaged, and that you loved with abandon.

The absence of regret makes no guarantee of the absence of pain.

We resemble computers intellectually and animals emotionally.

It's fun to play characters with a past, but it's also fun to play any role that is what I would call a 'pressure cooker' kind of character, where the lid is on, and it's left to simmer throughout the movie.