Quotes about Emotions

God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.

The problem is that you are taking it too personal. Step back for a moment. Don't focus on these people personally. Forget they even have names. Don't think of it as you versus them. Just realize that they represent the negativity that will always be around you. The important thing is to know how to deal with the negativity and what to do with it.

We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.

Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

Men inflict injuries from hatred, jealousy or contempt, but the wise man masters all these passions by means of reason.

Anyway, what do happiness and unhappiness mean? They depend so little on circumstances and so much more on what goes on inside us.

Bonhoeffer openly thought things through and taught his students to do the same. They followed lines of reasoning to their logical conclusions and considered every angle to have a sense of absolute thoroughness, so that nothing depended on mere emotion.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

Feel what you feel, know what you know, and set your relatives free to do the same.