Emotions
215 quotes: 44 by Keith Craft, 171 from other voices.
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- It’s not things that upset us but our judgments about things.
- It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
- Jealousy is the apprehension of superiority.
- Just as a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.
- Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them.
- Life would be a perpetual flea-hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, insinuations, and suspicions which are uttered against him.
- Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
- Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things.
- Men spend their lives in the service of their passions, instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.
- More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
- Never act in a Passion. If you do, all is lost. You cannot act for yourself if you are not yourself, and passion always drives out reason.
- Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
- Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset.
- Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up. Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.
- Never let your emotions rule, but always let them testify.
- Never take offense when none is intended. Act as though you were born to be happy and will not allow any one to make you unhappy.
- Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
- Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. some people are better at hiding it than others.
- No great thing ever is accomplished without a sustained background of deep feeling.
- Nothing can take your joy; you have to give it away. You're in complete control of your happiness.
- Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.
- Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
- Patience serves against insults as clothes do against the cold; since if you multiply your clothes as the cold increases, the cold cannot hurt you.
- Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offences, and they cannot hurt your feelings.
- People are not disturbed by things but by the view they take of them.
- People cannot hurt you without your permission.
- Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential.
- Remember that it is not he who reviles you or strikes you, who insults you, but it is your opinion about these things as being insulting.
- Remorse and repentance are two very different things. Repentance leads back to life; but remorse ends often in the painless apathy and fatal mortification of despair.
- Revenge of a wrong only makes another wrong.
- Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
- Sorrow’s best antidote is employment.
- The busy have no time for tears.
- The capacity of sorrow belongs to our grandeur; and the loftiest of our race are those who have had the profoundest grief, because they have had the profoundest sympathies.
- The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
- The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
- The goal isn’t to get rid of all your negative thoughts and feelings. The goal is to change your response to them.
- The greatest remedy for anger is delay.