Emotional Energy Quotes:

Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.

- Vincent Van Gogh

topic: Emotional, Feelings, Littles, Emotional Appeal, Emotional Energy

Just as physical energy comes from diet, exercise and rest, emotional energy comes from the ways you take care of yourself emotionally -- living in a way that makes you feel inspired, hopeful, self-confident, playful, loving and in touch with what you care about most.

- Mira Kirshenbaum

topic: Exercise, Emotional, Self, Emotional Energy, Self Confident

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

- Leo Buscaglia

topic: Love, Single, Hurt, Hurt And Pain, Hurt Pain

Anything that you fight with or struggle against grows larger. You give power to lower energies by focusing upon them. You don't eliminate darkness by arguing with it. The only way to eliminate darkness is to turn on a light.

- Doreen Virtue

source: FaceBook post by Doreen Virtue from Dec 29, 2011

topic: Struggle, Fighting, Light, Light And Dark, Emotional Energy

Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.

- Pema Chodron

topic: Energy, Shifting, Spiritual Awakening, Unpredictability, Emotional Energy

That which offends you only weakens you. Being offended creates the same destructive energy that offended you in the first place- so transcend your ego and stay in peace.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Inspirational, Karma, Ego, Indignation, Offence

Positive emotional energy is the key to health, happiness and wellbeing. The more positive you are, the better your life will be in every area.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Attitude, Emotional, Keys, Wellbeing, Emotional Energy

To be a good parent, you need to take care of yourself so that you can have the physical and emotional energy to take care of your family.

- Michelle Obama

source: "Michelle Obama talks nutrition and 'wakeup call' moment in her family's past". Interview with Morgan Whitaker, www.aol.com. September 10, 2015.

topic: Emotional, Parent, Energy, Good Parent, Emotional Energy

To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.

- Malcolm Gladwell

topic: Success, Caring, Emotional, Caring About Someone, Tipping Point

Every time we're about to criticize someone for what we think they did wrong, let's first remember to thank them for the things they did right. And to mean it; to sincerely affirm them. Then, if there's still a problem that needs to be shared, it will come from a completely different energy -- and actually be heard!

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Mean, Thinking, Different, Wrongdoing, Emotional Energy

Certain people give off positive energy, others negative. It's the quality of someone's being, a measure of the love with which they've led their lives. It also reflects the inner work they've done, their efforts to heal anger, hatred, or self-loathing, which poison us like toxic fumes.

- Judith Orloff

source: Judith Orloff (2004). “Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love”, p.25, Harmony

topic: Positive, Self, Giving, Self Hatred, Positive People

Your emotional energy only cares about how successful you are at being yourself.

- Mira Kirshenbaum

source: Mira Kirshenbaum (2008). “The Emotional Energy Factor: The Secrets High-Energy People Use to Beat Emotional Fatigue”, p.40, Delta

topic: Being Yourself, Successful, Emotional, Emotional Energy

Everyone wants a happy life without difficulties or suffering. We create many of the problems we face. No one intentionally creates problems, but we tend to be slaves to powerful emotions like anger, hatred and attachment that are based on misconceived projections about people and things. We need to find ways of reducing these emotions by eliminating the ignorance that underlies them and applying opposing forces.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Spiritual Wisdom, Emotional Energy, Powerful Emotions

To manage our emotions is not to drug them or suppress them, but to understand them so that we can intelligently direct our emotional energies and intentions.... It's time for human beings to grow up emotionally, to mature into emotionally managed and responsible citizens. No magic pill will do it.

- Doc Childre

topic: Wisdom, Growing Up, Emotional, Emotional Energy

I think we each have a personal sweet spot as well. It's the state of mind in which we experience the most joy and satisfaction in being ourselves. And from that place of pleasure and joy in being ourselves, energy arises to flow out into our day bringing with it the depth and resonance of our own beingness, bringing with it blessing.

- David Spangler

topic: Sweet, Blessing, Thinking, Resonance, Emotional Energy

Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

- Athol Fugard

topic: Love, Anger, Inspiration, Informing, Emotional Energy

The greatest opportunities for creative transformation are often lodged in our discontents. Art is an alchemical process that feeds on emotional energy. When we realize that a perfect equilibrium in our lives might not be the best basis for making art, then we can begin to re-vision our stress points. So rather than try to rid your life of tension, consider doing something more creative with it.

- Shaun McNiff

topic: Art, Stress, Opportunity, Emotional Energy

When we are angry we are blind to reality. Anger may bring us a temporary burst of energy, but that energy is blind and it blocks the part of our brain that distinguishes right from wrong. To deal with our problems, we need to be practical and realistic. If we are to be realistic, we need to use our human intelligence properly, which means we need a calm mind.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Block, Mean, Reality, Calm Mind, Practicality

Measure your emotions. You don't need an atomic explosion for a minor point.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Needs, Emotion, Explosions, Emotional Energy, Emotionally Unstable

The purpose of bread and circuses is, as Neil Postman said in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, to distract, to divert emotional energy towards the absurd and the trivial and the spectacle while you are ruthlessly stripped of power.

- Chris Hedges

source: Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

topic: Book, Emotional, Energy, Emotional Energy, Bread And Circuses

Getting to know the feel of both emotional energies, fear and courage, will enable you to choose courage more consciously. You don't want fear's energy running rampant in your beautiful self, even if you know its root. Whenever you're afraid, invoke courage to transform fear, the formula for freedom.

- Judith Orloff

topic: Beautiful, Running, Emotional, Emotional Energy

There are two kinds of comments that I get. One is, oh, you're such a natural up there, and the other one is, you're working hard up there. And the ones who say I'm working hard are teachers, they're the educators; they're the people who are the performers. It's a huge investment of my psycho-emotional energy to pull that off and to make it look smooth.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

source: "Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on Writing, Mars, Curiosity, and the Higgs Boson". Interview With Sandra Kitt, aalbc.com. January 1, 2013.

topic: Teacher, Emotional, Two, Emotional Energy

It's so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Tired, Emotional, Upset, Emotional Energy, Tired Of Working

Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god... No river contains a spirit... no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the home of a great demon. No voices now speak to man from stones, plants and animals, nor does he speak to them thinking they can hear. His contact with nature has gone, and with it has gone the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection supplied.

- Carl Jung

topic: Home, Animal, Men, Plants And Animals, Emotional Energy

I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.

- Robert Silverberg

source: "The Emperor and the Maula". Short story by Robert Silverberg, 2007.

topic: Hate, Emotional, Waste, Emotional Energy

But when you personalize your life, when you make your life a place where you can be yourself, when you do things the way you want to do them, your life feels like your home. And that is a tremendous source of emotional energy.

- Mira Kirshenbaum

source: Mira Kirshenbaum (2008). “The Emotional Energy Factor: The Secrets High-Energy People Use to Beat Emotional Fatigue”, p.56, Delta

topic: Being Yourself, Home, Emotional, Emotional Energy

Releasing the emotional energy and focusing on acceptance dissipates anger and restores balance.

- Jude Bijou

topic: Acceptance, Emotional, Balance, Emotional Energy

There are plenty of studies that have shown that depression is associated with decreased immunity. So I want to harness all of the positive emotional energy I can in a patient to get better.

- Allan Hamilton

source: "A Soulful Surgeon". Beliefnet Interview, www.beliefnet.com.

topic: Emotional, Get Better, Energy, Emotional Energy

Parents' ability to survive a child's unabating needs, wants, and demands...varies enormously. Some people can give and give....Whether children are good or bad, brilliant or just about normal, enormously popular or born loners, they keep their cool and say just the right thing at all times...even when they are miserable themselves, inexhaustible springs of emotional energy, reserved just for children, keep flowing unabated.

- Stella Chess

topic: Children, Spring, Emotional, Emotional Energy

You only have so much emotional energy each day. Don't fight battles that don't matter.

- Joel Osteen

source: Twitter post from Jun 24, 2015

topic: Fighting, Emotional, Battle, Emotional Energy

If friendship is to transpire between two people, it is important that both be in a state of availability. I have often been in the company of those who complain that they have no friends. Inevitably, I have observed that this condition was due to their own lack of availability; they were too encumbered to be able to welcome another. Such unavailability may be exterior in nature; that is, people may lack the time or the emotional energy necessary for friendship.

- Ignace Lepp

topic: Emotional, Two, Availability, Emotional Energy

Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.

- Jonathan Sacks

source: "Falling birth rate is killing Europe, says chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks" by Riazat Butt, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2009.

topic: Sacrifice, Emotional, Energy, Emotional Energy

If the whole process of learning from failure means discarding stuff that's not working, but in fact, our natural reaction is to keep going, to throw more money behind it, to throw more emotional energy behind it... that's a real problem.

- Tim Harford

topic: Real, Mean, Emotional, Emotional Energy

Living day in and day out with guilt over sin that has not been properly confessed and forsaken expends a certain amount of emotional energy; it saps your emotional strength and causes you to become emotionally exhausted (i.e., depressed).

- Lou Priolo

topic: Depression, Emotional, Guilt, Emotional Energy, Emotional Strength