“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, amazon.com
“Our emotional suffering is caused by our desire for things to be other than they are. The more we resist the fact of what is happening right now, the more we suffer.”— Kristin Neff, amazon.com
“Emotions are the lowest form of consciousness….Emotions are caused by biochemical secretions in the body to serve during the state of acute emergency. An emotional person is a blind, crazed maniac.”— Timothy Leary, books.google.com
“The romantic poetry and fiction of the last 200 years has quite blinded us to the fact that emotions are an active and harmful form of stupor.”— Timothy Leary, luminist.org
“We are each so deliciously complex and messy; what better way to pay homage to these multiplicities than to feel, to express, and to carve out space to navigate as our purest self?”— Martine Thompson, vogue.com
“I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also someone that can make me smile.”— Abbey Lee Kershaw, goodreads.com
“When we love, we have no need to understand what is happening, because everything is happening inside us.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“We need not be afraid to touch, to feel, to show emotion. The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be.”— Leo Buscaglia, amazon.com
“We are the masters of the unsaid words, but the slaves of those we let slip out.”— Winston Churchill, amazon.com
“I’ve always hid from my emotions. I’ve always run to the bathroom and cried instead of letting anybody see it.”— Gabbie Hanna, youtube.com
“...part of love is being helpless, being out of control of your own emotions.”— B.J. Novak,, amazon.com
“I am the seasons, I think sometimes, January, May, November; the mud, the mist, the dawn. I cannot be tossed about, or float gently, or mix with other people.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“If I were honest, I’d say it only sort of gets better. That there’s always this part of you that got carved out. It’s a physical thing, I swear to God, and it’s the part that swells right before you cry. Eventually you stop hoping and start to fill it up with memories.”— Kathleen Hale, amazon.com
“Have you ever done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don’t know why.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“I’m not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don’t think you get a true picture of people without it in writing… It’s a kind of poetry, it’s an emotional poetry, and, to bring it back to the literary scene, I don’t think anything is true that doesn’t have it, that doesn’t have poet…”— Nelson Algren, amazon.com
“A bird does not sing because he has an answer. He sings because he has a song.”— Joan Walsh Anglund, amazon.com
“There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com