Best 2079 quotes in «emotion quotes» category

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?

The first element that I connected with was the emotion. Sorry, that's how it goes.

The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple.

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

The freedom of saying anything to him, telling all, relieved a burden I hadn't even realized I'd been carrying. In my relentless push to keep moving forward, there had been so many emotions I hadn't let myself inhabit fully, so many things I hadn't talked about. Now I couldn't quite catch up to myself.

The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest.

The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.

The greatest change to go from average to fortune is not so much an increase in knowledge, but rather, a change in our emotions about achieving our goals.

The greatest Enemies of the Equity investor are Expenses and Emotions.

The greatest enemies of success and happiness are negative emotions of all kinds.

The heart less bounding at emotion new, The hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again.

The hell with "love" anyway, and with every other phony, time-wasting, half-assed emotion in the world.

The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.

The healthiest of all human emotions is gratitude.

The initial sketch is always an emotion, not a concept.

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.

The liver, that great maroon snail: No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks.

The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.

The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced by reasonable arguments ... and the appeal to the emotions ... and especially the freedom to cease when sated. The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.

The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.

The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.

The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

The more awesome you are, the more emotion you create, the more viral it is.

The more we ignore our emotions, the more likely they are to wield a powerful influence over us.

The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.

The most decisive event in your life is when you discover you are not your thoughts or emotions. Instead, you can be present as the awareness behind the thoughts and emotions.

The most functional way to regulate difficult emotions in love relationships is to share them.

The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich.

The need for Kitsch arises when genuine emotion has become rare.

The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.

The navel region is the centre of the vital. It is from here that the movements of the vital rise upward. Above the navel and behind the chest is the centre of the play of emotions and below this takes place the play of the physical. Mulādhāra is the base of the physical. In between the Mulādhāra and the navel, there is another centre of the vital.

The most likely cause of a man's depression is his failure to be the man he thinks he should be

The most visceral expression of emotion in music.

[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.

The old adage that polite conversation should not include talk of politics or religion is understandable because both subjects are so heavily laden with emotion that discussion can quickly turn to shouting. Blood is shed over politics, religion and the two in combination.

the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.

The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.

The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture

The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.

The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.

The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.

The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience.

The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.

The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional. Anxiety is not a sin; it's an emotion. So don't be anxious about feeling anxious. Anxiety can, however, lead to sinful behavior. When we numb our fears with six-packs or food binges, when we spew anger like Krakatau, when we peddle our fears to anyone who will buy them, we're sinning.