Emotions Quotes

• Love is a momentary upwelling of three tightly interwoven events: First, a sharing of one or more positive emotions between you and another; second, a synchrony between your and the other person’s biochemistry and behaviors; and third, a reflected motive to invest in each other’s well-being that brings mutual care.

  

  Barbara Fredrickson
  • Love Is
  • Events
  • Motive

• You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

  

  Alice James
  • She
  • Remember
  • Nature

• The first gatherings of the garden in May of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine. And this emotion of wonder filled me for each vegetable as it was gathered every year. There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.

  

  Alice B. Toklas
  • May
  • Mother
  • Beautiful

• No matter the situation, never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Emotions
  • Intelligence
  • No Matter

• Facts are important to me, not emotions. I would caution against speculation.

  

  Alexander Lebedev
  • Facts
  • Emotions
  • Speculation

• Your emotions are nothing but biochemical storms in your brain and you are in control of them at any point in time.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Emotions
  • Storms

• As far as my own dreams, I'm not a big dreamer, I think obviously we suppress things in life, emotions and thoughts, and we should wake up and look at that.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Life
  • Up
  • Thoughts

• I knew that I wanted to be a singer/songwriter when I was much younger and, um, I've been able to, you know, to realize that dream and I'm very pleased with that...I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry...Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion-very powerful emotions.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Dream
  • Poetry
  • Singer-songwriter

• An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up then wither on the vine. You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Optimistic
  • Expectation
  • Confusion

• Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Positive

• We write to tell a story, to describe an event, to imagine or explain what has been or will happen, to warn or touch or inspire. We write to express our most profound emotions—love and hatred, joy and sorrow, humor and sadness.

  

  Sam Barry
  • Joy
  • Story
  • Humor

• It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Responsibility
  • Positive

• So, you can define emotions very simply as the process of perceiving what is going on in the organs when you are in the throws of an emotion, and that is achieved by a collection of structures, some of which are in the brain stem, and some of which are in the cerebral cortex, namely the insular cortex, which I like to mention not because I think it's the most important, it's not.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Important
  • Brain
  • Cortex

• Emotional intelligence enables you to make better decisions based on what you are feeling under a given situation. It also helps to connect to others in ways that show that you care about them and the way they feel. Having a high EQ enables you to identify and control your emotions in a positive way, thus enhancing effective communication. A person with a greater EQ is able to cope with the daily stresses and struggles of life, and neutralize any potential conflicts, even as they continually empathize with others around them.

  

  Benjamin Smith
  • Communication
  • Conflicts
  • Empathize

• I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Control
  • Emotions
  • Passions

• There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able to reason logically, to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and to understand the emotions--that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited.

  

  Aristotle
  • Character
  • Man
  • Reason

• All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Goddess
  • Movements
  • Human Passions

• Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Knowledge
  • Happiness
  • Teacher

• In the Fragments, sensations are more profound and richly clarified through deliberate and explicit pattern; emotions are given a sequence and development such as the exigencies of practical life rarely permit.

  

  Alton Tobey
  • Life
  • Development
  • Emotions

• We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • Lost
  • Desire
  • Relation

• One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Love
  • Like
  • Compassion

• The myth that “emotions are bad” puts the blame in the wrong place. Emotions aren’t inherently bad or unruly, but sin has devastated our emotions.

  

  Carolyn Mahaney
  • Sin
  • Emotions
  • Devastated

• Young people have so many emotions growing up. If you don't feel accepted, you start sneaking around and engaging in dangerous practices.

  

  Bernadette Peters
  • Emotions
  • Young People
  • Engaging

• It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?

  

  Vin Diesel
  • People
  • Real
  • Interesting

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