Quotes about Emotions

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents.

In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

The emotions are not always subject to reason ... but they are always subject to action. When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.

Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

A man is a kind of inverted thermometer, the bulb uppermost, and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down.

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

All the aggressive actions I do to myself I would never dream of doing in my own life - I am not this kind of person. I cry if I cut myself peeling potatoes. I am taking the plane, there is turbulence, I am shaking. In performance, I become, somehow, like not a mortal.

You don't need a murder on a Martian colony. What is more dramatic than love? There's highs and lows, especially in your twenties, when it completely takes you over.

I think I've only kissed a woman on screen only once or twice before in my whole career.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.