Emotional Quotes

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. (Norman Mailer)
If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far. View quote
Daniel Goleman
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. View quote
James Thurber
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl. View quote
Shirley Chisholm
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference. View quote
Audre Lorde
As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is "AUTHENTICITY." View quote
Charlie Chaplin
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal. View quote
Marilyn Ferguson
I like to think of music as an emotional science. (George Gershwin)
A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation. View quote
George Gershwin
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. View quote
Ayn Rand
To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others. View quote
George Santayana
Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept. View quote
Laurette Taylor
The seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each of these "sins" as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification. View quote
Anton LaVey
When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response. View quote
Indra Nooyi
I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
Giving full rein to one‘s cynicism as one goes along produces a normal outlet and maintains an emotional equilibrium. View quote
S. S. Van Dine
Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time; he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking were making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really. (Jack Osbourne)
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. View quote
Albert Einstein
Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man. View quote
Albert Einstein
Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task. View quote
Martha Stout
My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times. View quote
Augusten Burroughs