Quotes about Emotions

The things we love tell us who we are.

The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

Where there is no love there is no understanding.

God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.

The problem is that you are taking it too personal. Step back for a moment. Don't focus on these people personally. Forget they even have names. Don't think of it as you versus them. Just realize that they represent the negativity that will always be around you. The important thing is to know how to deal with the negativity and what to do with it.

We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.

Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

Men inflict injuries from hatred, jealousy or contempt, but the wise man masters all these passions by means of reason.

Anyway, what do happiness and unhappiness mean? They depend so little on circumstances and so much more on what goes on inside us.

Bonhoeffer openly thought things through and taught his students to do the same. They followed lines of reasoning to their logical conclusions and considered every angle to have a sense of absolute thoroughness, so that nothing depended on mere emotion.