Emotional Life Quotes

• Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

  George Santayana

  Emotional, Weakness

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• Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we begin it so late.

  William Mather Lewis

  Inspirational, Sad, Break Up

  "Abiding Values".

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• People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

  Zig Ziglar

  Life Changing, Emotional, People

  Zig Ziglar (2004). “Secrets of Closing the Sale”, p.233, Revell

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• You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!

  Stephen Covey

  Emotional, People, Weakness

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• One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness. Such men make this cosmos and its construction the pivot of their emotional life, in order to find the peace and security which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

  Walter Isaacson

  Art, Memorable, Men

  "Einstein: His Life and Universe". Book by Walter Isaacson, 2007.

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• I'm the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my expectations at bay and hope they are exceeded. This quality has made me a needy and theatrical friend, but has given me a spectacularly dramatic emotional life.

  Mindy Kaling

  Emotional, Expectations, Quality

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.70, Three Rivers Press

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• Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  Writing, Emotional, Childhood

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• Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Thinking, Men

  Albert Einstein (1995). “Ideas and Opinions”, Three Rivers Press

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• You are not the sum of your physical, mental, emotional life, but you are designed for the spiritual. The whole design of the human being is created to enjoy your spiritual life and not the material life. This is the basic thing human beings don't understand and that's why, if they knew this fundamental thing, they would seek their spirit first and they would not seek other things.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• ...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have a rich social and emotional life. The great apes are therefore an ideal case for showing the arbitrariness of the species boundary. If we think that all human beings, irrespective of age or mental capacity, have some basic rights, how can we deny that the great apes, who surpass some humans in their capacities, also have these rights?

  Peter Singer

  Emotional, Thinking, Animal

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• Music is the emotional life of the most people.

  Leonard Cohen

  Music, Emotional, People

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• Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Fashion, Men

  Albert Einstein (1987). “The collected papers of Albert Einstein: The Berlin years, writings, 1918-1921”, p.43, Princeton University Press

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• ...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use for work, that they might be different creatures.

  Doris Lessing

  Intelligent, Men, Emotional

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew, and not infrequently my childish ideal has been so closely approached that friend and enemy coincided in the same person.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Emotional, Enemy

  Sigmund Freud, H. W. Chase (2016). “THE “UNCONSCIOUS” TRILOGY: The Interpretation of Dreams, Psychopathology of Everyday Life & Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious: The Dream Book, The Mistake Book, The Joke Book & Freud’s Theories of the Unconscious”, p.350, e-artnow

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• Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.

  Stella Gibbons

  Emotional, Novelists, Rich

  Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Emotional, Impact, Atmosphere

  Tariq Ramadan (2010). “The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism”, p.141, Penguin UK

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• To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Emotional, Different, Who You Are

  FaceBook post by Ian Somerhalder from Oct 08, 2012

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• I think, to be specific, we got off the track when we concentrated more and more on production of things. Thereby, we created a split between intellect and emotion, because, in order to produce a modern technique, you have to use intellect, and we have created men who are very brilliant, who are very clever, but our emotional life has become impoverished.

  Erich Fromm

  Clever, Men, Emotional

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

  Oscar Wilde

  Failure, Emotional, Consistency

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.

  Julius Lester

  Emotional, Important, Remember

  Julius Lester (2003). “When Dad Killed Mom”, p.130, HMH

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• My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect---simply a confession of failures. Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. But I don't want to interrupt you. Go on with your story.

  Oscar Wilde

  Loyalty, Passion, Boys

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.48, Prestwick House Inc

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• To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John's Gospel we are told that Jesus was moved with the deepest emotions (11:33)... The gospel portrait of the beloved Child of Abba is that of a man exquisitely attuned to His emotions and uninhibited in expressing them. The Son of Man did not scorn of reject feelings as fickle and unreliable. They were sensitive antennae to which He listened carefully and through which He perceived the will of His Father for congruent speech and action.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Children, Father

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• My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.

  Susan Sontag

  Emotional, Needs, Passionate

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.174, Macmillan

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• Human beings are very unbalanced and prone to go off on tangents. In every area of life- with too great emphasis on one thing, leaving out another important thing altogether. None of us will ever be perfectly balanced in our spiritual lives, our intellectual lives, our emotional lives, our family lives, in relationships with other human beings, or in our business lives. BUT WE ARE CHALLENGED TO TRY, WITH THE HELP OF GOD. We are meant to live in the scriptures.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Spiritual, Emotional, Leaving

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