Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.
The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.
If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.
My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
Sex is emotion in motion.
Misery is a communicable disease.
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
We are but shadows: we are, not endowed with real life, and all that seems most real about us is but the thinnest substance of a dream,--till the heart be touched. That touch creates us--then we begin to be--thereby we are beings of reality and inheritors of eternity.
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.
Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of everything which could make it more so.
The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.
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.
It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
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