Emotions
215 quotes: 44 by Keith Craft, 171 from other voices.
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- The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
- The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.
- The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.
- The heart is wiser than the intellect.
- The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
- The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away.
- The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves, and we injure our own cause, in the opinion of the world, when we too passionately and eagerly defend it.
- The key to success is emotional stability.
- The mind that is cheerful at present will have no solicitude for the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a smile.
- The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.
- The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
- The power men possess to annoy me I give them.
- The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
- The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong if we do not feel right.
- The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.
- The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty, by how little.
- The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.
- There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.
- There is certainly no defence against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
- There is no man, that imparteth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
- There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.
- To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils.
- To be angry is to avenge the faults of others upon ourselves.
- To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear; and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
- To rule one’s anger is well; to prevent it is still better.
- Train yourself to take nothing personally.
- We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.
- We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
- We are reminded that anger doesn't solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything.Thomas S. MonsonCommonly attributed
- We can't control what other people do and how they treat us, but we can control our response to them.
- We can’t control what people say, but we do have a say in how we react. Refusing to give others power over our feelings is a mark of emotional intelligence.
- When anger rises, think of the consequences.ConfuciusSourced
- When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.
- When death comes, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
- When glad, we owe the world our joy; when mad, we owe it our self-control.
- When passion is on the throne reason is out of doors.
- When we feel humiliated, the best reaction is humility.
- When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.
- When you find yourself overpowered, as it were by melancholy, the best way is to go out, and do something kind to somebody or other.
- When you get angry, your options narrow.