Famous quotes about emotions

Whatever is good for your soul…do that.

Rest in reason. Move in passion.
- Kahlil Gibran

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Passion is the genesis of genius.
- Anthony Robbins

There is no plan B for passion.

Always go with your passion. Never ask yourself if it is realistic or not.
- Deepak Chopra

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The people who succeed are irrationally passionate about something.
- Naval Ravikant

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

Emotional intelligence is the ability to sense, understand, and effectively apply the power and acumen of emotions as a source of human energy, information, connection, and influence.
- Robert K. Cooper

A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
- Thomas More

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else: you are the one who gets burned.
- Buddha

Every time we allow someone to move us with anger, we teach them to be angry.
- Barry Neil Kaufman

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
- James Russell Lowell

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
- Marquis De Vauvenargues

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
- Ernest Hemingway

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.
- David Borenstein

We lose our chances, we lose our figures, we even lose our characters; but we must never lose our tempers. That is our duty to our neighbor...but sometimes we mislay it, don't we?
- 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.
- Oscar Wilde

Love asks me no questions and gives me endless support.
- William Shakespeare

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
- Yousuf Karsh

Managing our emotions increases intuition and clarity. It helps us self-regulate our brain chemicals and internal hormones. It gives us natural highs, the real fountain of youth we've been searching for. It enables us to drink from elixirs locked within our cells, just waiting for us to discover them.
- Doc Childre

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
- George Bernard Shaw

Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind.