Quotes about Emotions

I've learned that if you want people to join in any kind of conservation effort, you have to help them to care with their hearts, not just their heads.

You have to first experience what you want to express

Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back.

The man I love may decide tomorrow that he loves me no more - but if my heart remains open, I will endure the storm.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don't always feel like I'm a success. That's right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I've just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I'm trying to communicate with.

It's all about how you feel, not how you look

Seek first to understand, then to be understood ... Remember, unexpressed feelings never die. They are buried alive and come forth later in uglier ways. You've got to share your feelings or they'll eat your heart out.

Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures.

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

If we want to know what it means to be human, we look at Jesus. He does things we'd culturally consider feminine - like weep - and others our culture would consider masculine - like flip tables in the temple. But really all these things are just human. And since Jesus is God, these characteristics are also divine.