Emotions

(486 votes)   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.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(453 votes)   All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(394 votes)   There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(381 votes)   We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(375 votes)   The heart is forever inexperienced.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(357 votes)   Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.

Robert Browning
1812-1889, British Poet

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(335 votes)   It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(324 votes)   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.

Greg Anderson
American Author of ''The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness''

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(310 votes)   Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

Marquis De Vauvenargues
1715-1747, French Moralist

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(309 votes)   He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

Thomas Paine
1737-1809, Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer

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(305 votes)   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.

Og Mandino
1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker

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(303 votes)   All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

Rainer Maria Rilke
1875-1926, German Poet

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(298 votes)   The heart is half a prophet.

Yiddish Proverbs
Sayings of Yiddish Origin

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(292 votes)   It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

Elizabeth Bowen
1899-1973, Anglo-Irish Novelist

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(272 votes)   Our emotions are only ''incidents in the effort to keep day and night together.

T. S. Eliot
1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic

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