Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

The first step toward spiritual growth is to become aware of your emotions.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

Those things that hurt, instruct.

Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.

Gratitude is the most important of all human emotions.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.

Positivity doesn’t just change the contents of your mind…It widens the span of possibilities that you see.

The great benefit of practicing mindfulness…is presence of mind within a storm of emotions.

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

I’m not recommending that you think positive thoughts. It’s more about experiencing more emotions and feelings that make you feel more connected with the world.

Emotions are the curse of logic.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Being true to yourself involves showing and sharing emotion. The spirit that motivates most great storytellers is ‘I want you to feel what I feel,’ and the effective narrative is designed to make this happen. That’s how the information is bound to the experience and rendered unforgettable.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth.

Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion

I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.

A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to us, when they appear so big, so important, so serious; but as soon as they are borne down the restless stream of time they lose what significance they had; we think no more of them and soon forget them altogether. They were big only because they were near.

Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would… have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article.

I guess the biggest world difference you can make is in people’s relations to their own emotions, ’cause emotions rule so much of our daily life, and I think that’s where we work.

Hope is not an emotion; it’s a way of thinking or a cognitive process.

Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one’s emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications – in order to hide one’s motives, not just from others, but primarily from oneself. The price of rationalizing is the hampering, the distortion, and, ultimately, the destruction of one’s cognitive faculty. Rationalization is a process not of perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

I’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.

Combine your mental images with the emotion of desire to accelerate their realization.

The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.