Quotes Tagged "emotions"

When the emotions, be it passions or injuries, prevail over the cold judgment of the mind, be the time one loses reason and sinks into primitivism.

Emotions are the ornaments of life. But we need to choose the emotions that bring out our higher side, not our lower side.

Among my stillness was a pounding heart.

This is how life works. Deciding whom to love is not an alien form of decision-making, a romantic interlude in the midst of normal life. Instead, decisions about whom to love are more intense versions of the sorts of decisions we make throughout the course of our existence, from what kind of gelato to order to what career to pursue. Living is an inherently emotional business.

Love means never saying goodbye.

Sometimes I think, I need a spare heart to feel all the things I feel.

Do not turn me into restless waters if you cannot promise to be my stream.

I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings.

love is undying,of that I feel certain.I mean deep,abiding,cherishing love.The love that gives protection even as you,my guardian angel,gave me protection long after you had gone-and continue to give this very day... A love beyond Death-a love that makes Life alive!

One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. “They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die.

She laughed. 'It won't last. Nothing lasts. But I'm happy now.' 'Happy,' I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception--especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far too relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because they're scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidence.

Today, many will choose to live free of conditions and rules governing their own happiness. Why not you? Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people's opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions! Today's a new day!

Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.

Gratitude was never meant to be an excuse for giving up on the obstacles God has put before you. Some of the most magical things he can bring us require faith and a lot of planning.

A person cannot direct his emotional life in the way he bids his motor system to reach for a cup. He cannot will himself to want the right thing or to love the right person or to be happy after a disappointment, or even to be happy in happy times. People lack this capacity not through a deficiency of discipline but because the jurisdiction of will is limited to the latest brain and to those functions within its purview. Emotional life can be influenced, but it cannot be commanded.

No one is freer than someone who couldn’t care less about how he or she feels.

We are greatly enslaved by how we do not want and how we want to feel.

Like a ceaseless fire Over all the experiences, Vast sensation and desires, Every emotion in essence!

It’s a privilege to feel. And misery, my friend, is necessary. Otherwise, happiness would lose its charm.

Sad faces are reflected in clouds of despair, but happy faces are what bathes our emotions in happiness.