Quotes about Emotions

That our affections kill us not, nor dye.

Methinks I lied all winter, when I swore My love was infinite, if spring makes it more.

If that be simply perfectest Which can by no way be expresst But negatives, my love is so. To All, which all love, I say no. Negative Love

Yet though these ways be lost, thou hast left one, Which is, immoderate grief that she is gone. But we may 'scape that sin, yet weep as much; Our tears are due because we are not such. Some tears, that knot of friends, her death must cost, Because the chain is broke, but no link lost.

Give me tender and supple and conformable affections, that as I joy with them that joy, and mourn with them that mourn, so I may fear with them that fear.

For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.

If we don't learn how to cry, we can't be good Christians. This is a challenge. Don't be frightened of crying.

I think people have a need to feel good about the country they live in, but what's happening, I think, is that that need - which is a good thing - is getting manipulated and exploited.

When you are saying you want to feel good, what you really are saying is you want to feel God: I want my thoughts to be the same as the source from which I emanated.

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.