Emotion in Wisdom Quotes

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response."

"Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome."

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."

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

"Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things."

"Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."

"Emotions are like waves, we can't stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf."

"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."

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."

"But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem."

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it."

"The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts."

"Emotions are not obstacles to a productive life; they are the very energy that fuels it."

"One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels."

"When the body says no, it is often because the mind has refused to listen to the emotions."

"The guest house of the human heart is never empty; every morning a new arrival."

"I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them."

"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them."

"Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs."

"The emotions are the very stuff of which life is made."

"The body keeps the score: if the memory of trauma is encoded in the viscera, in heartbreaking and gut-wrenching sensations."