quotes about emotions

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire. ~Simone Weil



They may as well have called the sun a ball of flaming joy. ~Terri Guillemets



You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke. ~Arthur Polotnik



Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering. ~Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne



Sometimes I do a little mental skipping, just to shake things up in my mind. ~Jessi Lane Adams



The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in few words. ~Samuel Johnson



As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death. ~Leonardo da Vinci



Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly. ~Epictetus



She has the answer to everything and the solution to nothing. ~Oscar Levant



If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. ~Henry Ford



To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. ~Theodore Roosevelt, seventh annual message, 3 December 1907



Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions. ~Benjamin Stillingfleet



Keep your flame lit, and you will never feel darkness. ~J. Parker



~William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, much later adapted to "So shines a good deed in a weary world" by David Seltzer for the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Thanks Aidan!)



Being perfect artists and ingenuous poets, the Chinese have piously preserved the love and holy cult of flowers; one of the very rare and most ancient traditions which has survived their decadence. And since flowers had to be distinguished from each other, they have attributed graceful analogies to them, dreamy images, pure and passionate names which perpetuate and harmonize in our minds the sensations of gentle charm and violent intoxication with which they inspire us. So it is that certain peonies, their favorite flower, are saluted by the Chinese, according to their form or color, by these delicious names, each an entire poem and an entire novel: The Young Girl Who Offers Her Breasts, or: The Water That Sleeps Beneath the Moon, or: The Sunlight in the Forest, or: The First Desire of the Reclining Virgin, or: My Gown Is No Longer All White Because in Tearing It the Son of Heaven Left a Little Rosy Stain; or, even better, this one: I Possessed My Lover in the Garden. ~"The Garden," Chapter 5



What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight. ~Joseph Joubert



Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. ~Russel Baker



Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins. ~Victoria Billings



All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. ~Elias Canetti



Anger and folly walk cheek by jole. ~Benjamin Franklin