Emotion Quotes - Page 9

Don’t let any emotional thought concerning success or failure, fame or gain, overtake you, and don’t dwell upon them. Give up your personal shortcomings, such as foolish talk, distracting activities, and absentmindedness. Train in being totally gentle in all physical, verbal, or mental activities. Don’t ponder the flaws of others; think instead of their good sides.

I'm gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I'm feeling that day.

An emotional debt is hard to square.

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

I was very emotional. I cried when I got into the locker room. I didn’t want to show that stuff on the sideline.

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.

As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

When people can walk away from you: Let them walk.

I'm very, very in touch with my emotions.

When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow.

If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.

Communism and fascism or nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to the type of personality that takes pleasure in being submerged in a mass movement and submitting to superior authority.

A modern teacher educates children to value their emotions.

The most decisive event in your life is when you discover you are not your thoughts or emotions. Instead, you can be present as the awareness behind the thoughts and emotions.

Off the floor I'm really laid back, like nothing really fazes me too much. But on the floor I do get emotional and a little carried away. However, I started playing when I was 13 to have fun with my teammates, and that never stopped. I enjoy traveling and having fun in the locker room with the guys. Life is too short to be miserable.

Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.

The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.

I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

For me, it's really easy to be kind to others when I remember that none of us came into this world with a manual about how to get it all right. We are ultimately a product of our biology and environment. Consequently, I choose to be compassionate with others when I consider how much painful emotional baggage we are biologically programmed to carry around. I recognize that mistakes will be made, but this does not mean that I need to either victimize myself or take your actions and mistakes personally. Your stuff is your stuff, and my stuff is my stuff.

Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.

When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?