Quotes about Emotions

Happiness is dependent on our circumstances; Joy is dependent on our relationship.

As a parent you are never, ever dealing just with the words and actions of your children. You are always also dealing with the thing that controls their words and behavior: the heart.

You cannot buy or win happiness. You must choose it.

There was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction, and despair.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can't wait for a feeling to motivate you.

I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled.

I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if its not something that I have a longing to celebrate or to be reminded of, if it doesn't affect me, then how can I possibly think it is going to affect somebody else. My touchstone is write something that matters.

Always touched with sympathy for human infirmities, we bear the burden of nations in our hearts.

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

I want a pain I understand instead of the one I don't. I want a pain that has a beginning and an end, not

But he had been so much hurt that something inside him had perished, some of his feelings had gone. There was a blank of insentience.