Top Emotional Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Emotional quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Oliver James
I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies.
- Oliver James
Collection: Emotional
Image of Harriet Lerner
Being who we are requires that we can talk openly about things that are important to us, that we take a clear position on where we stand on important emotional issues, and that we clarify the limits of what is acceptable and tolerable to us in a relationship.
- Harriet Lerner
Collection: Emotional
Image of Andrew Wyeth
My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.
- Andrew Wyeth
Collection: Emotional
Image of Stella Gibbons
Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.
- Stella Gibbons
Collection: Emotional
Image of Anthony Storr
In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to persuade well-meaning helpers that solitude can be as therapeutic as emotional support.
- Anthony Storr
Collection: Emotional
Image of Carl Rogers
I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I'd live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional ups and downs; because that's the price I'm willing to pay for a fluid, perplexed and exciting life.
- Carl Rogers
Collection: Emotional
Image of Jill Bolte Taylor
It takes 90 seconds from the time we have a thought that is going to stimulate an emotional response. When we have an emotional response it results in a physiological dumpage into our bloodstream. It flushes through and out of our body in less than 90 seconds.
- Jill Bolte Taylor
Collection: Emotional
Image of Andrew Weil
I do not claim to have attained optimum emotional well-being. Actually, I think that may be a lifetime goal. For me it’s an ongoing process that requires awareness, knowledge, and practice. I do know what good emotional health feels like, and that motivates me to keep at the practice.
- Andrew Weil
Collection: Emotional
Image of Daniel J. Siegel
From early infancy, it appears that our ability to regulate emotional states depends upon the experience of feeling that a significant person in our life is simultaneously experiencing a similar state of mind.
- Daniel J. Siegel
Collection: Emotional
Image of Leigh Steinberg
People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.
- Leigh Steinberg
Collection: Emotional
Image of Rita Wilson
Be fearless in trying new things, whether they are physical, mental, or emotional, since being afraid can challenge you to go to the next level.
- Rita Wilson
Collection: Emotional
Image of Karen Rose
Often, people take herbal medicines for a physical response, but what they find is that the body also responds in an emotional way to the plant medicine that they're taking.
- Karen Rose
Collection: Emotional
Image of William Butler Yeats
If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.
- William Butler Yeats
Collection: Emotional
Image of Milo Ventimiglia
I don't want to impose on anyone else and make anyone else emotional or anything. I tend to quietly cry, kind of turn away.
- Milo Ventimiglia
Collection: Emotional
Image of Warren G. Bennis
Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.
- Warren G. Bennis
Collection: Emotional
Image of Steve Lopez
It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend.
- Steve Lopez
Collection: Emotional
Image of Ntozake Shange
I'm committed to the idea that one of the few things human beings have to offer is the richness of unconscious and conscious emotional responses to being alive. ... The kind of esteem that's given to brightness/smartness obliterates average people or slow learners from participating fully in human life, particularly technical and intellectual life. But you cannot exclude any human being from emotional participation.
- Ntozake Shange
Collection: Emotional
Image of John Bradshaw
Since the earliest period of our life was preverbal, everything depended on emotional interaction. Without someone to reflect our emotions, we had no way of knowing who we were.
- John Bradshaw
Collection: Emotional
Image of Charles Stross
Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.
- Charles Stross
Collection: Emotional
Image of Kelly Slater
This was the most emotional title of my career. I was the youngest champion, and now I'm the oldest.
- Kelly Slater
Collection: Emotional
Image of George W. Crane
Go through the proper motions each day and you'll soon begin to feel the corresponding emotions!
- George W. Crane
Collection: Emotional
Image of Mary Tyler Moore
Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.
- Mary Tyler Moore
Collection: Emotional
Image of Ernst Junger
The anarchist, as the born foe of authority, will be destroyed by it after damaging it more or less. The anarch, on the other hand, has appropriated authority; he is sovereign. He therefore behaves as a neutral power vis-à-vis state and society. He may like, dislike, or be indifferent to whatever occurs in them. That is what determines his conduct; he invests no emotional values.
- Ernst Junger
Collection: Emotional
Image of Jamie Ford
After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand.
- Jamie Ford
Collection: Emotional
Image of Robert M. Sapolsky
If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.
- Robert M. Sapolsky
Collection: Emotional
Image of Steve Erickson
Out of the house and on my own, I faced the fact I didn't much like who I was. I didn't like my judgmentalism; I didn't like my absolutism. I didn't like my repression of natural empathy, my pinched lack of emotional generosity. How I had been thinking politically had less to do with what was wrong with the world and more to do with what was wrong with me, with my fears and insecurities, failings, weaknesses.
- Steve Erickson
Collection: Emotional
Image of Wilhelm Reich
Emotional and physical states can be altered by changing the breathing pattern.
- Wilhelm Reich
Collection: Emotional
Image of Michael Shermer
Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.
- Michael Shermer
Collection: Emotional
Image of Shannyn Sossamon
I think the emotional toolbox I have is healthy for an actor, as far as the intensity of emotions go. It's other things I have to hone. I can swim in that comfortably.
- Shannyn Sossamon
Collection: Emotional
Image of Ingrid Betancourt
Sometimes I'm fragile, sometimes too emotional, but I'm putting everything I can on my side to be a happy person.
- Ingrid Betancourt
Collection: Emotional
Image of Marilyn vos Savant
When you're in a good mood, bring up the past. When you're in a bad mood, stick to the present. And when you're not feeling emotional at all, it's time to talk about the future.
- Marilyn vos Savant
Collection: Emotional
Image of Leonardo da Vinci
I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Collection: Emotional
Image of J.P. Moreland
Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel to unbelievers
- J.P. Moreland
Collection: Emotional
Image of Beck
As music becomes more computer-based, it's lost some emotional impact.
- Beck
Collection: Emotional
Image of Yanni
Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.
- Yanni
Collection: Emotional
Image of Robin Sloan
He has the strangest expression on his face- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND.
- Robin Sloan
Collection: Emotional
Image of Lev S. Vygotsky
Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what is created is a physical object or some mental or emotional construct that lives within the person who created it and is known only to him.
- Lev S. Vygotsky
Collection: Emotional
Image of Bjorn Borg
Sure you have feelings and you get emotional and angry but I kept everything inside because I think I still had that thought in my mind - I didn't want to get suspended again
- Bjorn Borg
Collection: Emotional
Image of Ruth Benedict
No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities; it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional and moral, and stifled others. Each culture is a system of values which may well complement the values in another.
- Ruth Benedict
Collection: Emotional
Image of Theodor Adorno
Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.
- Theodor Adorno
Collection: Emotional
Image of Kiersten White
You cannot control faeries. Can. Not. They aren't logical or rational. They don't obey the same laws (physical, social, emotional, traffic - you name it) that we do.
- Kiersten White
Collection: Emotional
Image of Merrill Markoe
As you can imagine this is a very emotional moment for me because Dave promised me many times that I was the only woman he would ever cheat on.
- Merrill Markoe
Collection: Emotional
Image of Brian Molko
The more personal you make something, the more universal it becomes, because essentially we're all made up of the same emotional stuff.
- Brian Molko
Collection: Emotional
Image of Judy Sheindlin
I couldn't give a rat's tutu about your emotional distress
- Judy Sheindlin
Collection: Emotional
Image of Julius Lester
We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.
- Julius Lester
Collection: Emotional
Image of Jonathan Haidt
Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.
- Jonathan Haidt
Collection: Emotional
Image of W. Eugene Smith
Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical approach, by the selection of the subject matterand by his decision as to the exact cinematic instant of exposure, he is blending the variables of interpretation into an emotional whole.
- W. Eugene Smith
Collection: Emotional