Browsing Topic Best Emotional Quotes

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

The human emotional system can be broken down into roughly two elements: fear and love. Love is of the soul. Fear is of the personality.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the knowledge that we belong to God and have found in God our refuge and our safety and that nothing, not even death, can take God away from us.

Self-care is knowing your emotional triggers and not surrounding yourself with people who deliberately provoke them.

The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied. They want villains to hate and heroes to cheer – and they don’t want explanations that do not give them that.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life – mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.

Mystery is an intellectual process… But suspense is essentially an emotional process.

I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I’d live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional ups and downs; because that’s the price I’m willing to pay for a fluid, perplexed and exciting life.

I love therapy! There’s nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life.

The very same brain centers that interpret and feel physical pain also become activated during experiences of emotional rejection. In brain scans, they light up in response to social ostracism, just as they would when triggered by physically harmful stimuli. When people speak of feeling hurt or of having emotional pain, they are not being abstract or poetic, but scientifically quite precise.

I’m a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that’s often destructive both to myself and others.

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.

Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.

Joy, collected over time, fuels resilience – ensuring we’ll have reservoirs of emotional strength when hard things do happen.

You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a moment, lasting no longer than the cloud formations that are constantly coming apart and re-forming overhead. There is no guile in pachyderms.

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.

The intimate rapport with nature is one of the most precious things in life. Nature is indeed very close to us; sometimes closer than hands and feet, of which in truth she is but the extension. The emotional appeal of nature is tremendous, sometimes almost more than one can bear.

Trying to control the emotional self willfully by manipulative attempts is like trying to choose a number on a thrown die or to push back the water of the Kamo River upstream. Certainly, they end up aggravating their agony and feeling unbearable pain because of their failure in manipulating the emotions.

Having emotional independence means we are no longer tied to the need for constant approval and are, therefore, not coerced into doing more than we feel comfortable doing by our need to please others.