Quotes about Emotions

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart.

Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox.

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

If a man does not control his temper, it is a sad admission that he is not in control of his thoughts.

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.

To be free of passion and yet full of love.

Continually, and, if possible, in the case of every mental image, consider its nature, realize its emotional content, and judge it rationally.