60+ Quotes About Feelings and Emotions

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Feelings and emotions are a unique part of the human experience. Here are inspiring quotes about feelings and emotions.

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60+ Quotes About Feelings and Emotions

“What you resist persists.” – Carl Jung

If you try to push away your feelings and live in a state of denial, then it’s just going to be worse when you finally do feel it. If you numb yourself, you’re only putting off the bad feelings until a later time.

It’s better to feel them in the present (when it’s safe to do so).

Quotes About Feelings | Feeling Quotes
Quotes About Feelings | Feeling Quotes

So let yourself feel the feelings. Feel the sadness, feel the hurt, feel all of the emotions you’ve been carrying.

And let it go. Breathe into the feeling.

And slowly, slowly, the feelings will start to dissolve.

At first, you might feel worse. Maybe you’ll wish you could go back to filling the void with anything except this emotion.

But this is part of being human, all these emotions. There are good days and bad days. One cannot exist without the other.

You’re allowed to feel sad and have negative emotions. You don’t have to be happy all the time (or pretend to be).

Sometimes when we’re in the middle of growing in some way it just feels painful and uncomfortable, and we wish we could go back to the way things were. But nothing lasts forever. Impermanence is the only thing guaranteed in life.

So when you’re happy, be happy, and when you’re sad, be sad.

Sometimes it’s hard not to wish that the good times would last a lifetime or to resist the painful times and refuse to see the truth of a situation.

But the sooner you accept reality, the sooner your reality can change. If you’re stuck wishing things were different or forcing things to work that shouldn’t, you’re going to make yourself very unhappy.

But if you can accept the ways things are while still working toward your goals and gently pushing yourself to improve, day after day, you’ll find that it’s only a matter of time before the reality in your dreams matches up with your actual reality.

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Quotes on Feelings and Emotion

“Feelings are something you have; not something you are.” – Shannon L. Alder

“It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone.” – Marilyn Monroe

“Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt.” – Neil Gaiman

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Quotes About Feelings and Emotions | Feelings Quotes

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison.” – Jane Austen

“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

“We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.” – Bertrand Russell

“The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions.” – Donald Calne

“Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.” – Willard Scott

“Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another.” – Alfred Adler

“There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.” – Carl Gustav Jung

“Emotions are celebrated and repressed, analyzed and medicated, adored and ignored — but rarely, if ever, are they honored.” – Karla McLaren

“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.” – George Eliot

“The only way to change someone’s mind is to connect with them from the heart.” – Rasheed Ogunlaru

“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

“Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.” – Audre Lorde

“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

“My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.” – Dejan Stojanovic

“Never apologize for showing your feelings. When you do, you are apologizing for the truth.” – José N. Harris

“We try so hard to hide everything we’re really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most. People try to bottle up their emotions, as if it’s somehow wrong to have natural reactions to life.” – Colleen Hoover

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion.” – Dale Carnegie

“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

“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

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

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“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller

“The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.” – Augustus William Hare

“Emotions can get in the way or get you on the way.” – Mavis Mazhura

“There is no instinct like that of the heart.” – Lord Byron

“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.” – Nicholas Sparks

“One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing that we as individuals can make a difference.” – Jeff Bridges

“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

“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

“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

“There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.” – Daisaku Ikeda

“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?” – Leo Tolstoy

“Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.” – David Borenstein

“We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.” – Albert Einstein

“But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.” – Anne Brontë

“To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.” – Barbara Walters

“But feelings can’t be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.” – Anne Frank

“Respect other people’s feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them.” – Roy T. Bennett

“Emotion is more powerful than reason. Emotion is the driving force behind thinking and reasoning. Emotional intelligence increases the mind’s ability to make positive, brilliant decisions.” – Dr T.P. Chia

“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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“Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don’t wish you didn’t fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn’t feel anything.” – Cassandra Clare

“Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions–so find out how to light their fires.” – Jeff Dewar

“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

“It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Emotions have taught mankind to reason.” – Marquis De Vauvenargues

“One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.” – Gustave Flaubert

“Don’t allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily.” – Paulo Coelho

“The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.” – Marianne Moore

“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

“When our emotional health is in a bad state, so is our level of self-esteem. We have to slow down and deal with what is troubling us, so that we can enjoy the simple joy of being happy and at peace with ourselves.” – Jess C. Scott

“We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.” – Bernie S. Siegel

“A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

“I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.” – Roger Ebert

“There is no remedy for love than to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau

“We all live at the mercy of our emotions. Our emotions influence and shape our desires, thoughts and behaviors and above all our destiny.” – Dr T.P. Chia

“Our feelings are not there to be cast out or conquered. They’re there to be engaged and expressed with imagination and intelligence.” – T.K. Coleman

“We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.” – Brene Brown

“I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.” – Marilyn Monroe

“Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.” – D. James

“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

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

“Whatever you do, you should do it with feeling.” – Yogi Berra

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