Quotes about Emotions

Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat.

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.

Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

As long as you live, you will be subject to change, whether you will it or not - now glad, now sorrowful; now pleased, now displeased; now devout, now undevout; now vigorous, now slothful; now gloomy, now merry. But a wise man who is well taught in spiritual labor stands unshaken in all such things, and heeds little what he feels, or from what side the wind of instability blows.

Thou thinkest as man. In many things thou judgest as human affection persuadeth thee.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which set bounds to the passions

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which sets bounds to the passions

You always get that buzz, that feeling of shivers down the back of your neck every time you walk out at Old Trafford or anywhere.