Emotion Quotes - Page 3

You can die from someone else's misery — emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but you are precipitating your own disaster. The unfortunate sometimes draw misfortune on themselves; they will also draw it on you. Associate with the happy and fortunate instead.

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

Never borrow sorrow from tomorrow.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Never rush an emotion; everything in life has a rhythm, it is the pauses and silences that speak the truth.

The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect.

You can manifest the life you truly want with clear intention, emotional intelligence and imagination...like it or not, your life is what you have chosen.

Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.

The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the person of inferior emotional balance, or the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor.

Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally.

Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.

I recently read in the book My Stroke of Insight by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor that the natural life span of an emotion—the average time it takes for it to move through the nervous system and body—is only a minute and a half. After that we need thoughts to keep the emotion rolling. So if we wonder why we lock into painful emotional states like anxiety, depression, or rage, we need look no further than our own endless stream of inner dialogue.

Emotions, particularly anger, are like fire. They can cook your food and keep you warm, or they can burn your house down.

Emotions change. Truth doesn't. What will you build your life upon?

Human beings are emotional amoral egoists, driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable.

Our emotional life maps our incompleteness: A creature without any needs would never have reasons for fear, or grief, or hope, or anger.

You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.

If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.

Remember that any time you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate.

Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.

Our breathing reflects every emotional or physical effort and every disturbance.

Under the obsessive thoughts and plans, under the emotions, positive and negative, there is an ocean of peace.

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.

If people could see into my heart, I should almost feel ashamed - all there is cold, cold as ice.

The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience, makes it posible with their help, and after suitable internal and external perparation, to evoke a mystical experience according to plan, so to speak. I see the true importance of LSD in the possibility of providing material aid to meditation aimed at the mystical experience of a deeper, comprehensive reality. Such a use accords entirely with the essence and working character of LSD as a sacred drug.