Quotes about Emotions

As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).

Yet I must tell you, that all these graces which are expressed by passions of sorrow, fear, joy, hope, love, are not so certainly to be tried by the passion that is in them, as by the will that is either contained in them, or supposed in them; not as acts of the sensitive, but of the rational appetite (358).

Consideration doth, as it were, open the door between the head and the heart: the understanding having received truths, lays them up in the memory now, consideration is the conveyer of theme from thence to the affections (571).

It's not the idea that we hear, as much as the positive or negative energy behind it.

Almost all people are carrying a great and secret hurt, even when they don't know it.

Whenever we get defensive or go emotionally up and down, this is a sign that we are attached to a self-image.

Cesar Milan, the "dog whisperer," says that dogs cannot be peaceful or teachable if they have no limits set to their freedom and their emotions. They are actually happier and at rest when they live within very clear limits and boundaries, with a "calm and assertive" master. My dog, Venus, is never happier and more teachable than when I am walking her, but on her leash. Could it be the same for humans at certain stages?

When the self is surrendered—when we're not too tied to our own agenda, anger, fear, or desire to make things happen our way—we are truly open to love. But be aware of the heart's propensity to clench and close.

but I do believe that the only way out of deep sadness is to go with it and through it.

the little boy couldn't feel and admit the pain until he was sufficiently sure that love was there.

So long as we all cling to our prejudices and identify with our preconceived views and feelings, genuine human community is impossible. You have to get to the point where you can break free from your feelings. Otherwise in the end you won't have any feelings; they'll have you.

Your heart needs to be broken—and broken open—at least once to discover what your heart means and to have a heart for others.