Quotes about Emotions

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,

If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind, as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends.

Screw you, Aech! And your dead grandma!

Passion was passion and love was love, regardless of who the participants involved were, or what sort of body they were assigned at birth.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Feelings are great liars. If Christians worshipped only when they felt like it, there would be precious little worship. Feelings are important in many areas but completely unreliable in matters of faith.

Many think that the only way to change your behavior is to first change your feelings.

But there is an older wisdom that puts it differently: by changing our behavior we can change our feelings.

The transition from a sucking infant to a weaned child, from squalling baby to quiet son or daughter, is not smooth. It is stormy and noisy. It is no easy thing to quiet yourself: sooner may we calm the sea or rule the wind or tame a tiger than quiet ourselves. It is pitched battle. The baby is denied expected comforts and flies into rages or sinks into sulks. There are sobs and struggles. The infant is facing its first great sorrow and it is in sore distress.

Just as water mirrors your face, so your face mirrors your heart.

It's your heart, not the dictionary, that gives meaning to your words.