Quotes about Emotions

Love is not concerned with a person's accomplishments, it is a response to a person's being: This is why a typical word of love is to say: I love you, because you are as you are.

Yet many times I felt terribly alone and was convinced that no one else understood. And I still think that's true. When our pain becomes intense and endures for weeks without relief, no one else really knows. I'm not sure it's worthwhile for them to know what it's like. They care. That's what I think is important.

When spirituality is divorced from theology it speedily deteriorates into sentimentality.

Our life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.

Sometimes we need the salt of tears to remind us how to savor the sweetness of life.

When you allow what someone says or does to upset you, you're allowing them to control you.

The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.

[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.

I release all feelings of worry and guilt. Throughout life, the two most futile emotions are guilt for what has been done and worry about what might be done.

I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life.

Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.