Quotes about Emotions

Feelings are great liars. If Christians worshipped only when they felt like it, there would be precious little worship. Feelings are important in many areas but completely unreliable in matters of faith.

Many think that the only way to change your behavior is to first change your feelings.

But there is an older wisdom that puts it differently: by changing our behavior we can change our feelings.

The transition from a sucking infant to a weaned child, from squalling baby to quiet son or daughter, is not smooth. It is stormy and noisy. It is no easy thing to quiet yourself: sooner may we calm the sea or rule the wind or tame a tiger than quiet ourselves. It is pitched battle. The baby is denied expected comforts and flies into rages or sinks into sulks. There are sobs and struggles. The infant is facing its first great sorrow and it is in sore distress.

Just as water mirrors your face, so your face mirrors your heart.

It's your heart, not the dictionary, that gives meaning to your words.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.

The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends.

For sure, when you are being beaten by your team-mate, it hurts.

You get about 20 people in the audience calling you a cheat. It hurts your feelings.