Quotes About Emotions: Wisdom for Life's Moments

Love is not just something you feel, it's something you do.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Where there is love, there is life.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.

Love makes everything more beautiful.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

A simple 'I love you' means more than money ever will.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

It's okay to not be okay. It's okay to cry.

Sometimes the person who needs the most love hides behind a smile.

Healing doesn't mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.

What we once enjoyed and valued has changed, and we must adjust.

Sadness is always the legacy of the past.

Tears are words that need to be written.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls.

Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they make the best of everything.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Rejoice in the things that are happening, not mourn over the things that have passed.

Joy is the art of loving without limits.

Happiness blooms from within.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody’s power.

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is probably a very good sign of being alive.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if you are correct.

The moment one gives close attention to any emotion, especially a negative one, it begins to dissolve.

Control your emotions or they will control you.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Suppressed anger harms no one as much as the person who harbors it.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Fear has its use, but cowardice has none.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

Acknowledge your fears, then step forward anyway.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all the darkness.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Every day brings new choices. Choose hope.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Strength does not come from what you can do, it comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Scars are proof that you survived.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.

Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.

Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.

She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.

Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.

Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.

The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship with myself.

Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be; embrace who you are.

True peace is not the absence of conflict; it is the ability to cope with it.

Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.

Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

We can’t heal the world’s wounds by ourselves, but we can contribute our own stitch of compassion.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Treat people the way you want to be treated. Talk to people the way you want to be talked to. Respect is earned, not given.

Empathy is about standing in someone else’s shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It is a relationship between equals.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay.

We rise by lifting others.

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.

You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.

Letting go isn’t giving up, it’s accepting that there are things that cannot be.

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

The art of life is to live in the present moment.

Let go of your attachment to being right, and embrace the possibility of being wrong.

Moving on doesn’t mean forgetting. It means understanding that some things are just not meant to be.

Release the need to control everything, and allow life to unfold naturally.

When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.

Let go of the past so the future can find you.

Growth begins when we accept where we are and let go of who we thought we should be.