Quotes - Emotions / Feelings Page 2

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
--  Niccolo Machiavelli

There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and
something's wrong.  Therefore something must be wrong with the
relationship, and thinking:  I'm in a relationship and we've got
problems.  This is evidence that you are different than me.
--  Wayne Dyer

Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation
of the species.
--  W. Somerset Maugham

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
--  H. L. Mencken

Always be joyful, no matter what you are.  Each day, deliberately
induce in yourself a buoyant, exuberant attitude toward life.  In
this way, we become more receptive to the subtle mysteries around
us.  If you have no enthusiasm, put on a front.  Act enthusiastic
and the feeling will become genuine.
--  Rabbi Nachman (and thanks to Jill Malleck)

Researchers have determined that it is impossible to develop eyestrain from
looking on the bright side of things.
--  Author Unknown

Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established,
that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
--  Blaise Pascal

When truth and kindness conflict, one ought to chose kindness,
especially when a little honesty is better than a lot.
--  Leroy Jack Syrop

I don't mind going nowhere as long as it's an interesting path.
--  Author Unknown

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But
beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men
who have to know about beautiful women.
--  Katherine Hepburn

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
--  William James

But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
--  Lord Byron

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
--  Arnold Glasow

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
--  Author Unknown

Remember that a successful marriage depends on two simple  things
1.  Finding the right person.
2.  Being the right person.
--  Author Unknown

It takes only three seconds to say 'I love you' but a lifetime to prove it.
--  Author Unknown

No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a
dog makes you rich.
--  Louis Sabin

People are always talking about tradition, but they forget we have a
tradition of a few hundred years of nonsense and stupidity, that there
is a tradition of idiocy, incompetence and crudity.
--  Hugo Demartini

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely
insane every night of our lives.
--  William Dement

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
--  Roger Caras

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
--  Andrew Rooney

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
--  Josh Billings

Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?
--  Thomas Wolfe

It took me a long time not to judge myself
through someone else's eyes.
- - Sally Field

Friendship adds a brighter radiance to prosperity and lightens the
burden of adversity by dividing and sharing it.
--  Cicero

Fear is being stuck in heavy traffic. You just had two cups of coffee
and a bran muffin.
--  John Mendoza

The light of friendship is like the light of phosphorous, seen plainest
when all around is dark.
--  Robert Crowell

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
--  Aristotle Onassis

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.
--  Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits
to grow sharper.
--  Eden Phillpotts

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
--  Eldridge Cleaver

The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds;
and the pessimist fears this is true.
--  James B. Cabell

Happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things
than most suppose.
--  William Cowper

You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy
is wasted.
-- Ruth E Renkl

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
--  Abraham Lincoln

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how
much you enjoy what you have.
--  Ziggy

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within
yourself, in your way of thinking.
--  Marcus Aurelius

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
--  Mildred Barthel

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
--  Margaret Bonnano

A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain,
would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch
their friend suffer.
--  Amanda Grier

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure
--  George E. Woodberry

My Grandfather was one of the wisest men I ever knew. I still
remember his only advice to me concerning women.   "TZ," he
said, "trust me on this one, even if you do eventually understand
women, you'll never believe it anyway."

One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten:
"Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly."
Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could
become an orgy of sexual lust.
--  Ruth Smythers, Marriage advice for women, 1894

There are a number of mechanical devices that increase sexual
arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the
Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.
--  P. J. O'Rourke

Step aside everyone! Sensitive love letters are my specialty.
'Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville. Population:  you.'
--  Homer Simpson

Don't marry the person you can live with, marry the person you can't live
without.
--  Author Unknown

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern
for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
--  John Macnaughton

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
-- Victor Borge

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
-- Aristotle

Marriage, n the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a
mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce

A man is already halfway in love with any woman
who listens to him.
-- Brendan Francis

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
-- Jessamyn West

Only two kinds of people can talk without inhibitions---
strangers or lovers.  Everyone in between is just negotiating.
--  James Grippando

If you're truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don't
teach him how to subtract---teach him how to deduct.
--  Fran Lebowitz

Dreams are extremely important.  You can't do it unless you imagine it.
--  George Lucas

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life
that no man can sincerely try to help another without
helping himself.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life;
That word is love.
--  Sophocles

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
--  Enoch Arnold Bennett

The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to
make for it.
--  John Galsworthy

All men commend patience, although few be willing to practice it.
--  Thomas a Kempis

A man must learn to endure that patiently which he cannot avoid
conveniently.
--  Michel Eyquem do Montaigne

Patience and delay achieve more than force and rage.
--  Jean de La Fontaine

How poor are they that have not patience.  What wound did ever
heal but by degrees?
--  William Shakespeare

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
--  Thomas Fuller

Patience is the art of hoping.
--  Marquis de Vauvenargues

He that can have patience can have what he will.
--  Benjamin Franklin

A pity beyond telling is hidden in the heart of love.
--  William Butler Yeats

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
-- Horace

One must choose between loving women and knowing them.
--  Ninon Lenclos

What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.-
--  Ovid

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now,
and then got it back again.
-- Frances Rodman

Joys are often the shadows cast by sorrows.
--  Author Unknown

Do what you love, love what you do, and deliver more than you promised.
--  Harvey MacKay

I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry.
--  Pierre de Beaumarchais (1732-1799)

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend
who has prospered.
--  Aeschylus

Since love and fear can hardly coexist together, if we must choose
between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
--  Niccolo Machiavelli

One day the faithful will have it all.
--  Neal A. Maxwell

Discouragement is the opposite of courage.
--  Connie Tilley

It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable,
but it is the little differences that make them interesting.
-- Todd Ruthman

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
-- Wayne Dyer

You cannot hide the heart when the mouth is open.
--Brigham Young

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle
as true strength.
--Ralph Sockman

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love
them anyway.
--  Author Unknown

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes
your smile can be the source of your joy.
--Thich Nhat Hanh

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your
heart.  Who looks outside, dreams.  Who looks inside, awakens.
--  Carl Jung

You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
--Kahlil Gibran

No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
--Aesop

The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as
the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens
into character.
--  Author Unknown

So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it
spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.
--The Buddha

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good;
but that which is good is always beautiful.
--Ninon de Lenclos

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy
simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
--Storm Jameson

Never frown when you're sad because you never know when
someone is falling in love with your smile.
--  Author Unknown

The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer someone else up.
--Mark Twain

Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have.
--  Author Unknown

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience
in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do
that which we think we cannot.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Between kindness and honesty, my vote is for kindness, every time--
giving or receiving.
--  Robert Heinlein

Our hopes are but memories reversed.
-- Author Unknown

The size of your body is of little account. the size of your brain is of
much account; the size of your heart is of the most account of all.
--  B.C. Forbes

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need
to know is that a man is a member of the human race.
That's bad enough for me.
-- Mark Twain

You can handle people more successfully by enlisting their feelings
than by convincing their reason.
-- Paul P. Parker

Learn to value yourself, which means to fight for your happiness.
--  Ayn Rand

The following contributed by Irismist:

No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
--Aesop

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can
do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do
something I can do.
--Edward Everett Hale

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is
good is always beautiful.
--Ninon de Lenclos

You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be
too late.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dream as if you'll live forever...live as if you'll die today.
--James Dean

Thanks Jim!

You and I do not see things as they are.
We see things as we are.
-- Herb Cohen

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
-- George W. Ball

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine
marriage and a career.
-- Gloria Steinem

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other.
Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
--  Katharine Hepburn

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home
which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls
every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that
comes home late at night.
-- Marie Corelli

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I
forget to worry.
-- Jack Dempsey

Love 'em for what they are and forgive 'em for what they ain't.
-- Grandpa

The strongest single factor in prosperity consciousness is self-esteem
believing you can do it, believing you deserve it, believing you will get it.
--  Author Unknown

Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's
the only way to live life completely.
--  Author Unknown

Your beauty is not in the seeing of you, but in what you leave me with.
Your love is not that you say you care for me, but that I love others
because of you.  Your power is not in what you tell me to do, but in
what I am inspired to be!
-- S. Hill

Love is a fire.  But whether it is going to warm your hearth
or burn down your house, you can never tell.
-- Joan Crawford

Love is patient.  It always hopes, always perseveres.
--  Author Unknown

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship
is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if
our words and our actions come from superficial human
relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than
from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will
sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and
sustain the foundation necessary for effective
interdependence.
-- Stephen R. Covey

You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you
never thought you could do.  There are no limitations in what you
can do, except the limitations in your own mind as to what you
cannot do.  Don't think you cannot.  Think you can.
--  Author Unknown

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life.  Don't let them scare
you unduly,  for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
 -- R. I. Fitzhenry

There Are Many Things In Life That Will Catch Your Eye,
But Only A Few Will Catch Your Heart... Pursue Those.
--  Author Unknown, and Thanks to Irismist

For those who fight for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will
never know.
--  Author Unknown

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends
will live in your heart.
--  Author Unknown

Remember to always say what you mean.
If you love someone, tell them. .
--  Author Unknown

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief,
than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
-- Marcus Antonius

It is possible to give without loving,
but it is impossible to love without giving.
-- Richard Braunstein

Everything you need you already have.  You are complete right now,
you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to
someplace else.  Your completeness must be understood by you and
experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
-- Wayne Dyer

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
-- Thaddeus Golas

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal
that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they
might have been.
-- William Hazlitt

Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find.  The
quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to
hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.
--  Author Unknown

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly,
for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
-- R. I. Fitzhenry

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat
of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
-- George Lois

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend
them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
-- Socrates

Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I may not forget you.
-- William Arthur

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing
about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement -- and we will make the goal.
-- Jerome P. Fleishman

Don't forget that a person's greatest emotional need is the need to feel appreciated.
--  John Mayfield

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
-- Thomas Fuller

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows
nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement --and
we will make the goal.
-- Jerome P. Fleishman

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen
nor touched... but are felt in the heart.
--  Helen Keller

Once in a while we should just stop in our pursuit of happiness
and just be happy.
--  Jen

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as
meaningless is not merely unfortunate, but almost disqualified for life.
-- Albert Einstein

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with
what you have.
-- Doris Mortman

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and
the remaining chapters are written in prose.
-- Beverley Nichols

When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands,
it's a wonder there isn't more of it done.
-- Kin Hubbard

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five
persons, but one out of every one.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger

There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles,
except that of the titled for riches.
-- Hesketh Pearson

My toughest fight was with my first wife.
-- Muhammad Ali

To handle yourself, use your head; To handle others, use your heart.
--  Author Unknown

Smiles and laughter bring happiness and joy into our lives.  Frowns only bring wrinkles.
--  Author Unknown

Love gives us in a moment what we can hardly attain by years of toil.
-- Gothe

Where fear is,  happiness is not.
-- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Friendship is like a bank account; you cannot continue to draw on it without
making a deposit.
-- Nicole Beale

Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant

Laughter gives us distance.  It allows us to step back from the event, deal with it and then move on.
--Bob Newhart

The biggest problem the world experiences is that the human race still  only hears and
understands 13% of what the other half converys...despite speaking the same language...
No wonder we have wars....
--John Collins, The New Age of Mankind

Joy shared is multiplied, pain shared is divided.
 -- Spider Robinson

Between kindness and honesty, I choose kindness every time, giving or receiving.
--Robert Heinlein

A dog wags its tail with its heart.
-- Martin Buxbaum

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
-- Charles Dickens

Anger is momentary madness.
--Horace

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings
happy death.
-- Leonardo Da Vinci

Avarice, the spur of industry.
-- David Hume

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
-- Michelangelo

Forgiveness is a gift of high value.  Yet its cost is nothing.
--  Betty Smith

Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage...
and give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still...the
veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe
in what you cannot see.
-- Robert Nathan

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them.
And you don't have to keep them, either, they keep you.
-- Dr. Frank Crane

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Humility makes great men twice honorable.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
-- Langston Hughes

If a first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment.
-- LA Times Syndicate

If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape.
-- Author Unknown

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein

It is an observation no less just than common, that there is no stronger
test of a man's real character than power and authority, exciting as they
do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.
-- Plutarch

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know
that it has begun.
--  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is impossible for a man to learn what he already thinks he knows.
-- Epictetus

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority; envy our  uneasiness under it.
-- William Shenstone

Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune.
-- Tony Snow

Love is a great beautifier.
-- Louisa May Alcott

Love is the energy of life.
-- Robert Browning

Love quickens all senses except the common.
-- Sunshine Magazine

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning handsprings or eating with
chopsticks.  It looks easy until you try it.
-- Helen Rowland

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man
knows that it may not be the greatest good.
-- William Mitford

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
-- Joseph Joubert

Nostalgia is the halfway house by which you love the past and the sweet
things in it without actually committing yourself to the nonsense that
life was better then.
-- Henry Mitchell

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when
you don't come home at night.
-- Margaret Mead

One of the qualities that separates us two-legged animals from the four-legged
ones is compassion.  It is what makes us stand up tall instead of  crawling
about on all fours.  And standing up tall is what frees our arms to reach out
to a to a fellow being and say, "Let me help you."
-- Beverly Sills

Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.
-- Anne Morrow Lindberg

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
-- Hermann Hesse

Romance is about little things.
-- Gregory J. Godeck

Tell me whom you love, And I will tell you who you are.
-- Houssaye

Tenderness is the repose of passion.
-- Joseph Joubert

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also
turns to the left.
-- "Smile" Zingers

The trouble with doing nothing is that you never know when you are finished.
-- Edna Wolf

The worst prison would be a closed heart.
-- Pope John Paul II

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.  As long as one sorely
needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.
-- Mark Twain

To keep a marriage brimming
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it
Whenever you're right, shut up!
-- Ogden Nash

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
-- Leo Tolstoy

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know when it will be too late.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

...And he learned almost too late that man is a feeling creature, and  because
of it, the greatest in the universe.  And he learned too late for  himself that
man has to find his own way to make his own mistakes.  There  can't be any gift
of perfection from outside ourselves.  That when man seeks  such perfection,
he'll find only death, fire, loss, disillusionment and the  end of everything
that's gone forward.  Man has always sought an end to the  toil and misery.
It cannot be given, it has to be achieved. There is hope,  but it has to come
from inside, from man himself.
--  Author Unknown

It is easier to love humanity in general than to love one's neighbor.
--  Author Unknown