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The heart is half a prophet.
-Yiddish Proverb
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
-Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
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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
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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
-Honore de Balzac
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The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.
-Lester Bangs
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Emotional intelligence, more than any other factor, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at work... I.Q. is a threshold competence. You need it, but it doesn't make you a star. Emotional intelligence can.
-Warren Bennis
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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.
-Medard Boss
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It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
-Elizabeth Bowen
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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
-Thomas Carlyle
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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
-G. K. Chesterton
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By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it.
-Joseph Collins
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It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
-Joseph Conrad
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There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
-Charles Dickens
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Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup.
-Dogen
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You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes.
-Margaret Drabble
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Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
-Max Eastman
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Our emotions are only incidents in the effort to keep day and night together.
-TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
-Johann von Goethe
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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
-Graham Greene
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Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing.
-Sonya Hartnett
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If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
-Horace
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The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.
-William James
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Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.
-Joseph Joubert
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Books about Emotions
