Looking for the best quotes about emotions? Here are the 100 BEST quotes about emotions to inspire feelings!
Let’s have a conversation today about quotes about emotions.
Quotes about emotions truly have the power to change your life.
Emotions quotes perfectly encapsulate the feelings you’re having about a particular issue.
They are raw, beautiful and tap into a part of your soul that feels both understood and reflective.
If you want the 100 best quotes about emotions, you’ve come to the right place.
So, without further ado, here are the TOP 100 QUOTES about emotions:
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1 – Your intellect may be confused but your emotions will never lie to you. Roger Ebert
2 – The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it. Nicholas Sparks
3 – Emotions are a critical source of information for learning. Joseph Ledoux
4 – It is both a blessing and a curse to feel everything so very deeply.
5 – The sign of an intelligent person is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason. Marya Mannes
6 – No matter the situation, never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.
7 – Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. Audre Lorde
8 – Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. Sigmund Freud
9 – Choosing not to act on an angry impulse and to feel that pain that lies beneath it is a very courageous thing to do. Gary Zukev
10 – Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy. Demi Lovato
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11 – Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place. Judith Wright
12 – Don’t get upset with people or situations. Both are powerless without your reaction.
13 – If you don’t manage your emotions, then your emotions will manage you. Deborah Rozman
14 – Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand. W. Somerset Maugham
15 – An emotion does not cause pain. Resistance or suppression of emotion causes pain. Frederick Dodson
16 – We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think and feel. Marshall B. Rosenberg
17 – Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change. Gretchen Rubin
18 – Never apologise for showing your feelings. When you do you are apologising for the truth. Jose N. Harris
19 – Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind. Matthieu Ricard
20 – Control what you can control. I can control my emotions, my attitude, my effort every day. Mitchell Trubisky
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21 – Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler. Friedrich Nietzsche
22 – That’s all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end. Ringo Starr
23 – Anytime emotions are involved, you cannot come up with an impartial and objective assessment of any given problem. Benigno Aquino III
24 – I don’t react and think off emotions – that gets you in a bad situation. Bernard Hopkins
25 – Emotions have taught mankind to reason. Luc de Clapiers
26 – Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind. Joyce Carol Oates
27 – The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts. Bertrand Russell
28 – If your work isn’t exciting, doesn’t stir the emotions, where’s the challenge? Where’s the progress if you always play it safe?
29 – If you are tuned out of your own emotions, you will be poor at reading them in other people. Daniel Goleman
30 – Life experience brings out different emotions and different perspectives on things. I just want to be constantly evolving. Kiesza
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31 – Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions. Will Smith
32 – Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life. Joyce Meyer
33 – You cannot know what you cannot feel. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
34 – We might be the master of our own thoughts, still we are the slaves of our own emotions.
35 – We cannot control what emotions or circ*mstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them. Gary Zukav
36 – Love and hate are two of the strongest emotions. Kashmira Shah
37 – Emotions aren’t just mindless urges; they contain thoughts about matters of importance. Martha Nussbaum
38 – I don’t think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings. Marion Cotillard
39 – Without our emotions, we can’t make smart decisions. Rana el Kaliouby
40 – The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. Oscar Wilde
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41 – Sometimes emotions are more important than reality. Marco Bizzarri
42 – Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses. J. Paul Getty
43 – You can’t logic your way through emotion.
44 – Anything you can’t control is teaching you how to let go. Jackson Kiddard
45 – Rational thoughts never drive people’s creativity the way emotions do. Neil deGrasse Tyson
46 – You must be the master of your emotions if you wish to live in peace, for he who can control himself becomes free. Leon Brown
47 – Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts and you are the slave to your emotions. John Lennon
48 – Feelings are just visitors. Let them come and go. Mooji
49 – I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them. Oscar Wilde
50 – A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln
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51 – Life is a tram of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them they proved to be many colored lenses which paint the world in their own hue. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
52 – Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another. – Alfred Adler
53 – There is no instinct like that of the heart. – Lord Byron
54 – The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives? When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see in truth that you are weeping for that which has been your delight. – Kahlil Gibran
55 – There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. – George Eliot
56 – Our feelings are the source of our energy, they provide; they provide the horsepower that makes it possible for us to accomplish the tasks of living…Since our feelings work for us, we should treat them with respect. – M. Scott Peck
57 – Your feelings are your God. Chanakya
58 – Focus equals feelings. Tony Robbins
59 – Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment based on what you are feeling and thinking. That is what’s real. – Doc Childre
60 – You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings. Pearl S. Buck
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61 – When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion. – Dale Carnegie
62 – When you own or take responsibility for your feelings, you place yourself in a position of power and control. – Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran
63 – Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game, but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for life time. – William Shakespeare
64 – 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
65 – Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions. David Borenstein
66 –Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. – Vincent Van Gogh
67 – Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later. Bono
68 – The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action. Madame de Stael
69 – Never apologize for being sensitive or emotional. It’s a sign that you have a big heart, and that you aren’t afraid to let others see it. Showing your emotions is a sign of strength. – Brigitte Nicole
70 – One can never repeat exactly the same emotion. – Oscar Wilde
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71 – Instead of resisting any emotion, the best way to dispel it is to enter it fully, embrace it and see through your resistance. – Deepak Chopra
72 – The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions. – Donald Calne
73 – First feelings are always the most natural. Louis XIV
74 – We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions. – Brene Brown
75 – If you close your eyes for just one minute, you can experience how a feeling or emotion is born, grows old, and passes away. It’s like a wave rising to a peak and then breaking apart. – Bhante Gunaratana
76 – You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel. Johnny Depp
77 – Feelings are something you have; not something you are. – Shannon L. Alder
78 – If you will stop feeding your feelings, then they will stop controlling you. Joyce Meyer
79 – You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings. Pearl S. Buck
80 – Tears are the blood of emotion. – Bea N. Abbling
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81 – A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done. Ram Dass
82 – When we acknowledge children’s feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he’s clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope. – Adele Faber
83 – You cannot live by feelings and emotions; you have to live by your intuition and consciousness. Harbhajan Singh Yogi
84 – Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul. Meher Baba
85 – Emotions and feelings in life are like water in the ocean which will never dry.
86 – Emotions are celebrated and repressed, analyzed and medicated, adored and ignored — but rarely, if ever, are they honored. Karla McLaren
87 – Following your feelings will lead you to their source. Only through emotions can you encounter the force field of your own soul. Gary Zukav
88 – Emotions are wild horses. It is not explanations that carry us forward, but our will to go on. Paulo Coelho
89 – 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. – Reiner Maria Rilke
90 – A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long. Pascal Mercier
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91 – Emotions come and go and can’t be controlled so there’s no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone. Nicholas Sparks
92 – I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them. – Oscar Wilde
93 – Emotions can get in the way or get you on the way. -Mavis Mazhura
94 – Feelings are like waves; we can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which ones to surf.
95 – Feelings are untidy. Esther Hautzig
96 – Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions, because the body always follows the mind. Bruce Lee
97 – In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it. Mitch Albom
98 – Feel the feeling but don’t become the emotion. Witness it. Allow it. Release it. Crystal Andrus
99 – The subconscious is motivated by emotion, not reason. Leonardo DiCaprio
100 – Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. Robert Frost
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