47 quotes
“The beauty of the world has two edges one of laughter one of anguish cutting the heart asunder”
— Anais Nin
“Love is a serious mental disease.”
— Plato
“Emotions are in the driver's seat and logic is in the passenger's seat.”
— Jonathan Haidt
“Emotions are the most potent forces that govern our lives.”
— Osho
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
— Allen Saunders
“Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.”
— Barbara de Angelis
“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
— Oscar Wilde
“I am not interested in how people move but what moves them”
— Pina Bausch
“Emotion is more powerful than reason. Emotion is the driving force behind thinking and reasoning.”
— Robert Greene
“We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.”
— Bryan White
“Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.”
— Madame de Stael
“The dew of compassion is a tear.”
— Lord Byron
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”
— Peter Ustinov
“Love is not a volunteer thing.”
— Samantha Bruce-Benjamin
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”
— William Shakespeare
“I dont think that architecture is only about shelter about a very simple enclosure it should be able to excite you to calm you to make you think”
— Zaha Hadid
“Color is a power which directly influences the soul”
— Wassily Kandinsky
“Human behaviour flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
— Franklin P. Jones
“The earth is weeping and laughing simultaneously.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Compassion is an unstable emotion it needs to be translated into action or it withers”
— Susan Sontag
“We are most alive when we are in love.”
— John Updike
“Emotions aren't that hard to borrow when love's the word, and you follow.”
— Neil Diamond
“Love is a game that two can play and both win.”
— Eva Gabor
“Emotion is more powerful than reason. Emotion is the driving force behind thinking and reasoning. Emotional intelligence increases the mind's ability to make positive, brilliant decisions.”
— Dr T.P.Chia
“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
“One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.”
— Erich Fromm
“Emotions are the greatest poetry of life.”
— Bryant McGill
“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”
“The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”
— Virginia Woolf
“We love because it’s the only true adventure.”
— Nikki Giovanni
“I am interested only in expressing basic human emotions tragedy ecstasy doom and so on”
— Mark Rothko
“The main thing is to be moved to love to hope to tremble to live”
— Auguste Rodin
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”
— Sophocles
“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart.”
— Ken Keyes
“Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.”
— Jean Cocteau
“He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.”
— Henri Matisse
“Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.”
— Felix Adler
“The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.”
“The measure of love is to love without measure.”
— Saint Augustine
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