You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.
Showing posts with label Emotions Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Emotions Quotes. Show all posts
When dealing with people, reme...
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
We know too much and feel too ...
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
We find nothing easier than be...
We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance.
To give vent now and then to h...
To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.
There can be no transforming o...
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
The walls we build around us t...
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
The finest emotion of which we...
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenatrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself amoung profoundly religious men.
The feeling is often the deepe...
The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.
One's suffering disappears whe...
One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.
One's suffering disappears whe...
One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.
Men are no more immune from em...
Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, "feminine" ones, that is, no anger please, but it's okay to turn on the waterworks.
Let's not forget that the litt...
Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.
If I feel depressed I will sin...
If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions.
How much has to be explored an...
How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
Feelings are much like waves, ...
Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf.
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