List Of 50 Emotional Quotes Which Will Get You Through Tough Times:
#1 Sabaa Tahir
“Your emotions make you human. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. Don’t lock them away. If you ignore them, they just get louder and angrier.”
#2 Oliver Markus
“Nobody has ever killed themselves over a broken arm. But every day, thousands of people kill themselves because of a broken heart. Why? Because emotional pain hurts much worse than physical pain.”
#3 Benedict de Spinoza
“When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.”
#4 Elizabeth Gilbert
“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
#5 Eckhart Tolle
“Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”
#6 Maria V. Snyder
“The heart is a strange beast and not ruled by logic.”
#7 H. P. Lovecraft
”The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”
#8 Plato
”Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
#9 Petra Collins
”I think the gender norms of emotion are horrendous. Being masculine means showing zero emotions, but having the choice to be angry or depressed. Being female means you are one dimensional – if you show more than that, you are a psycho, hysterical, or historically, a witch.”
#10 Hans Rosling
”I am not an optimist. I’m a very serious possibilist. It’s a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world.”
#11 Sarah Shahi
”As a parent, you experience the most of everything. The most love, the most fear, the most hurt and the most tired, the most of every emotion.”
#12 Brene Brown
”Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.”
#13 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go. Don’t ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.”
#14 Jeanette Winterson
“We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don’t.”
#15 William Shatner
”Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I’m content.”
#16 Fyodor Dostoevsky
”A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.”
#17 Jill Bolte Taylor
“Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated.”
#18 Earl Nightingale
”Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.”
#19 P.D. James
“Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.”
#20 Deepak Chopra
“Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.”
#21 CeeLo Green
”Emotion is something that you don’t simply receive. Emotion is compelled. Other than that, we’re just shells until we’re possessed or reanimated from time to time by different emotions.”
#22 Randeep Hooda
”Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.”
#23 Steve Maraboli
“Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people’s opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions!”
#24 Mitch Albom
“In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.”
#25 Friedrich Nietzsche
“One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”
#26 Judith Orloff
“How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation.”
#27 Jean Racine
“Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
#28 Nicholas Sparks
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it…”
#29 Amanda Seyfried
”Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can’t portray when you’re acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel.”
#30 John Lennon
“One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside.”
#31 Edward de Bono
”Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.”
#32 Gillian Jacobs
”You can convey a lot of emotion with just some eyebrows and mouth movement.”
#33 Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”
#34 Mike Huckabee
”Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It’s the sprint. The marathon is hope.”
#35 Oscar Wilde
“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
#36 John Lydon
”Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.”
#37 Kevyn Aucoin
”Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others – its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.”
#38 Brian May
”The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.”
#39 Helen Keller
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
#40 Arnold Bennett
”There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.”
#41 Edmund Burke
”The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.”
#42 Karamo Brown
”There’s so much toxic masculinity out there. I grew up with the notion that the more masculine you are and the less you show emotion, the more of a man you are.”
#43 William Wordsworth
”Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”
#44 Dale Carnegie
”When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.”
#45 Demi Lovato
“Watch a movie that makes you laugh or listen to a song that makes you cry. Embrace your emotions and be proud of what you feel.”
#46 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
”There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.”
#47 Neil Gaiman
“Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt.”
#48 Vanna Bonta
“Your heart is the beacon, your heart is the storm. Dare to embrace it; you’ll never be torn.”
#49 John Burroughs
”Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.”
#50 Jessi Kirby
“I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I’ve thought maybe my mother drowned in both.”
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