Emotions Quotes

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.

Civilization is the intelligent management of human emotions.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.

I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions.

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long.

Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.

It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.

Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.

One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.

Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.

The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.

Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.

Water has memory. Depending on how you treat it, what kind of thoughts and emotions you generate, accordingly it behaves in your body.

People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be optimistic and to experience intense emotions.

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.

Gratitude is the most important of all human emotions.

Go through the proper motions each day and you'll soon begin to feel the corresponding emotions!

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

Problems arise when you identify with your thoughts and emotions. Try to be a witness to the thoughts instead of being totally identified with them.

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.

Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.

There have always been mixed emotions about Howard Cosell: Some people hate him like poison; and other people just hate him regular.

Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.

Music isn’t just heard, it is felt.

Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

Thoughts and emotions will always arise.

I think there were times when I was so afraid of losing you that I forgot I even had you at all.

Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

We all have human emotions that rob our lives.

I work with whatever mediums seems best suited to evoking the sorts of thoughts and emotions I am interested in playing with.

After many years of training myself, strong emotions are now a trigger for me to look at something. I think that all emotions are triggers for us to grow in our level of consciousness.

Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.

It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.

Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.

A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos.