Quotes about Emotions

You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine.

O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.

Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.

I don't have to live the roller coaster other people live with my life. It's hard because people try to have an effect.

Your thoughts really, truly shape everything in your life that you feel and experience.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

When you have feelings like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life.

A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is — a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.

A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is - a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.

Destructive emotions, such as anger, hatred, and jealousy don't hurt others; they hurt you. They can make your life miserable. They can make you sick. Forgive everyone who ever hurt you—really forgive them—and then forgive yourself. That's all past.