Best 2079 quotes in «emotion quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 most visceral expression of emotion in music.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

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.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

The quality of mindfulness does not just know something is happening - e.g. there is an emotion, a sensation - but knows without clinging or condemning.

The positive emotions that arise in...unpromising circumstances demonstrate that social ties and meaningful work are deeply desired, readily improvised, and intensely rewarding. The very structure of our economy and society prevent these goals from being achieved.

The prevailing attunement is at any given time the condition of our openness for perceiving and dealing with what we encounter; the pitch at which our existence is vibrating. What we call moods, feelings, affects, emotions, and states are the concrete modes in which the possibilities for being open are fulfilled. They are at the same time the modes in which this perceptive openness can be narrowed, distorted, or closed off.

The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

The problems we have with our current technology often reveal our own human foibles, and it's these new emotions of cyberspace which reveal our struggles.

The psychic plane is clouded over by emotions and thoughts and the general dullness and malaise that develops in our contemporary world through the social conditioning that most individuals experience in the modern era.

There are a hundred or perhaps a thousand other emotions, or gradations, created by the mixing, blending, and overlapping of the basic ones.

The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.

There are four basic emotions - mad, sad, glad and scared. And if you touch those emotions then you can grab your audience, your reader.

There are cognitive processes and limbic reactions associated with basic emotions. And you can change brain chemistry, but you're still not going to change memories and experiences in a human being.

There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

There are only two emotions. Love and fear.... Love and fear is all there is == Everything else is just an offshoot motivated by those two.

There are so many emotions that are just better when you react to people reacting to it. Like laughter.

There are two emotions: love and fear.