Quotes about Emotions
If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.
— Alice Walker
Maturity' really means: being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment.
— Alain de Botton
If the heart had a brain kind people would rule the world.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
— John Milton
Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn,Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth.
— John Milton
Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.
— John Milton
Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.
— John Milton
Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...
— John Milton
Bitterness is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
— John Ortberg
When the Holy Spirit does his work of regeneration in the hearts of men he does not come on them with great powerful feelings and emotions which cannot be resisted. He does not possess men as evil spirits take possession of their victims.
— John Owen
Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself.
— John Piper
Some of us are afraid of getting too emotional when we sing. But the problem isn't emotions. It's emotionalism. Emotionalism pursues feelings as ends in themselves. It's wanting to feel something with no regard for how that feeling is produced or its ultimate purpose.
— John Piper