2,778 Quotes About Emotions

I'm not convinced that the universe is balanced. Maybe for the universe to be balanced, first we need to be balanced, becauseit's only then can balance really be delivered. I'm pretty sure if I view the world as a bitter, twisted individual, all I will meet are other bitter, twisted people. When I acknowledge my emtions, but embrace awareness I find balance. When I fight my emotions I find imbalance.

Contrary to the idea that anger clouds thinking, properly understood, it is an astoundingly clarifying emotion.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don't think it's any of that — it's helpless ... it's absence of control — and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... and anger doesn't provide any of that — I have no use for it whatsoever."[Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.]

Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.

Art is my source of Ambition.

I feel emotions wellInside my heartPulsating in rhythmStraining for expressionI reach for pen & paperAnd I am set freeOn a blank page

We will probably have the nagging feeling that we are not doing things right. This is good because confronting our negative feelings and our fear of incompetence can help us begin analysis.

There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read them like a book.