Emotional Life Quotes:

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

- George Santayana

topic: Emotional, Weakness, Emotional Life

Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.

- John Lennon

topic: Mindfulness, Planning, Life Is, Just Live Your Life, Inspirational Thank You

People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Life Changing, Emotional, People, Marketing And Sales, Salespeople

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

- William Mather Lewis

source: "Abiding Values".

topic: Break Up, Long, Waiting, Long Wait, Love Emotion

You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!

- Stephen Covey

topic: Emotional, People, Weakness, Emotional Life

One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness. Such men make this cosmos and its construction the pivot of their emotional life, in order to find the peace and security which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

- Walter Isaacson

topic: Art, Memorable, Men, Personal Experiences, Peace And Security

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

- Harry Stack Sullivan

topic: Writing, Emotional, Childhood, Cement, Emotional Life

I'm the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my expectations at bay and hope they are exceeded. This quality has made me a needy and theatrical friend, but has given me a spectacularly dramatic emotional life.

- Mindy Kaling

topic: Emotional, Expectations, Quality, Hopes Up, Emotional Life

The longer I live the more I am convinced that neither age nor circumstance needs to deprive us of energy and vitality. We are at last awakening to the close relationship between religion and health. . . .our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition, and our emotional life is profoundly regulated by our thought life.

- Norman Vincent Peale

topic: Emotional, Age, Awakening, Emotional Life

The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his mental and emotional life.

- Graham Collier

topic: Artist, Men, Emotional, Emotional Life, Shape Of Things

Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.

- Ayelet Waldman

topic: Mother, Children, Home, Plath, Emotional Life

The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.

- Sherman Alexie

topic: Kids, Simple, Emotional, Emotional Life

Our emotional life maps our incompleteness: A creature without any needs would never have reasons for fear, or grief, or hope, or anger.

- Martha C. Nussbaum

topic: Grief, Emotional, Maps, Incompleteness, Emotional Life

Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces And Feelings To Improve Communication And Emotional Life.

- Paul Ekman

source: Paul Ekman (2015). “Odhalené emoce: Naučte se rozpoznávat výrazy tváře a pocity druhých”, p.1, Jan Melvil Publishing

topic: Communication, Emotional, Feelings, Emotional Life

I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl.

- Elizabeth Berkley

topic: Girl, Country, Teenage, Teenage Girl, Emotional Life

It's bad biology to rob nonhuman animals of their emotional lives.

- Marc Bekoff

topic: Animal, Emotional, Biology, Emotional Life

When you remain angry with another person, you give away your emotional control to that person each time you think of him or here. You allow him or her to control your emotions at long distance. By not forgiving, you allow that person to run your emotional life, exactly as if he or she were right there with you and the situation was occurring all over again.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Running, Distance, Emotional, Emotional Control, Emotional Life

With every passing year we discover more evidence to support Darwin's revolutionary hypothesis that the cognitive and emotional lives of animals differ only by degree, from the fishes to the birds to the monkeys to humans.

- Roger Fouts

topic: Nature, Animal, Emotional, Emotional Life

I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

- Anne Carson

topic: Emotional, Thinking, Sensual, Emotional Life

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

- Gregory Orr

topic: Emotional, Self, Survival, Emotional Life

People with an impoverished vocabulary live an impoverished emotional life; people with rich vocabularies have a multihued palette of colors with which to paint their experience, not only for others, but for themselves as well.

- Tony Robbins

topic: Motivational, Emotional, Color, Emotional Life

At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.

- Susan Jacoby

source: Susan Jacoby (2008). “The Age of American Unreason”, p.269, Vintage

topic: Women, Heart, Emotional, Emotional Life

Through the history of art we can see through the emotional life, and sometimes the financial security of some of the artists, some transformation. And I really believe that it's generally about the same kind of transformation and the same kind of reaction. We are a little bit less individual than we would like to believe or guess we are.

- Arman

topic: Art, Believe, Emotional, Emotional Life, Financial Security

I'm just more attracted to actors. I like their choice to be artists - that's ballsy. And a guy who has such access to his emotional life is sexy. Or maybe because lots of the actors I know are so broken. I don't think I'm compatible with anybody I've dated. Maybe I'm so attracted to actors because I'm not ready for the 'settled down' thing yet.

- Amanda Seyfried

source: "Amanda Seyfried Talks Sexy Channing and Managing Her OCD in InStyle" by Allie Meriam, www.popsugar.com. December 11, 2012.

topic: Sexy, Artist, Emotional, Emotional Life

In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an emotional life.

- Twyla Tharp

topic: Emotional, Breathing Space, Enough, Emotional Life

For me, I like to show what guys are like when no one is looking and how we really are, and that we can be emotional and have these emotional lives. I think it would be great to do a film where we see some females and what's going on there when we're not around.

- David Ayer

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Emotional, Thinking, Guy, Emotional Life

Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of "felt life", as Henry James called it, into spatial, temporal, and poetic structures.

- Susanne Katherina Langer

topic: Art, Emotional, Poetic, Emotional Life

I think, to be specific, we got off the track when we concentrated more and more on production of things. Thereby, we created a split between intellect and emotion, because, in order to produce a modern technique, you have to use intellect, and we have created men who are very brilliant, who are very clever, but our emotional life has become impoverished.

- Erich Fromm

source: Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

topic: Clever, Men, Emotional, Very Clever, Emotional Life

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Attitude, Knowledge, Mind, Fear Of Love, Hopes And Fears

I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.

- Ali MacGraw

topic: Emotional, People, Perfection, Emotional Life, Great Film

a woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life.

- Kim Chernin

source: Kim Chernin (2009). “The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness”, p.3, Harper Collins

topic: Emotional, Body, Obsessed, Emotional Life

The human organism has only so much energy at its disposal. If you divert a great deal of it into any one channel, you can expect the others to collapse or atrophy. If you squander your vital energies on your emotional life, as you have been doing, plan to be physically and mentally bankrupt, as it were.

- Lisa Alther

source: Lisa Alther (2017). “The Novels of Lisa Alther: Kinflicks, Original Sins, and Five Minutes in Heaven”, p.144, Open Road Media

topic: Emotional, Energy, Collapse, Emotional Life, Atrophy

Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before; his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.

- Clarence Darrow

topic: Children, Believe, Emotional, Heredity, Emotional Life

Mads is such a talented actor - it's almost like he wears his emotions on his sleeve, but not all the time - when he decides that he needs to, he has such access to his emotional life and it is just really incredible. He can do everything with just his eyes.

- Gillian Anderson

topic: Eye, Emotional, Needs, Emotional Life

The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so that insincerity becomes permanent.

- Anthony Daniels

topic: Emotional, Expression, Hysteria, Insincerity, Vehemence

Being highly invested and preoccupied by an emotionally consuming mission tends to steal resources from other aspects of your emotional life.

- Carolyn Hax

source: "Carolyn Hax Live: 'I'm from the '80s. Everything seems excessive to me.'". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. September 16, 2016.

topic: Emotional, Stealing, Resources, Emotional Life

To have that concentration to act well is like lugging things up staircases in your brain. I think that’s a thing people don’t understand. It is that exhausting. If you’re doing it well, if you’re concentrating the way you need to, if your will and your concentration and emotional and imagination and emotional life are all in tune, concentrated and working together in that role, that is just like lugging weights upstairs with your head... And I don’t think that should get any easier.

- Philip Seymour Hoffman

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Emotional, Thinking, Imagination, Emotional Life

...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have a rich social and emotional life. The great apes are therefore an ideal case for showing the arbitrariness of the species boundary. If we think that all human beings, irrespective of age or mental capacity, have some basic rights, how can we deny that the great apes, who surpass some humans in their capacities, also have these rights?

- Peter Singer

topic: Emotional, Thinking, Animal, Planning Ahead, Emotional Life

An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew, and not infrequently my childish ideal has been so closely approached that friend and enemy coincided in the same person.

- Sigmund Freud

source: Sigmund Freud, H. W. Chase (2016). “THE “UNCONSCIOUS” TRILOGY: The Interpretation of Dreams, Psychopathology of Everyday Life & Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious: The Dream Book, The Mistake Book, The Joke Book & Freud’s Theories of the Unconscious”, p.350, e-artnow

topic: Life, Emotional, Enemy, Emotional Life, Intimate Friends

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.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Mean, Men, Emotional, Spiritual Intelligence, Valuation

You are not the sum of your physical, mental, emotional life, but you are designed for the spiritual. The whole design of the human being is created to enjoy your spiritual life and not the material life. This is the basic thing human beings don't understand and that's why, if they knew this fundamental thing, they would seek their spirit first and they would not seek other things.

- Nirmala Srivastava

topic: Love, Spiritual, Wisdom, Basic Things, Emotional Life

Music is the emotional life of the most people.

- Leonard Cohen

topic: Music, Emotional, People, Emotional Life

...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use for work, that they might be different creatures.

- Doris Lessing

source: Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

topic: Intelligent, Men, Emotional, Emotional Life

Human beings are very unbalanced and prone to go off on tangents. In every area of life- with too great emphasis on one thing, leaving out another important thing altogether. None of us will ever be perfectly balanced in our spiritual lives, our intellectual lives, our emotional lives, our family lives, in relationships with other human beings, or in our business lives. BUT WE ARE CHALLENGED TO TRY, WITH THE HELP OF GOD. We are meant to live in the scriptures.

- Edith Schaeffer

topic: Spiritual, Emotional, Leaving, Business Life, Intellectual Life

My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.

- Susan Sontag

source: Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.174, Macmillan

topic: Emotional, Needs, Passionate, Emotional Life

To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John's Gospel we are told that Jesus was moved with the deepest emotions (11:33)... The gospel portrait of the beloved Child of Abba is that of a man exquisitely attuned to His emotions and uninhibited in expressing them. The Son of Man did not scorn of reject feelings as fickle and unreliable. They were sensitive antennae to which He listened carefully and through which He perceived the will of His Father for congruent speech and action.

- Brennan Manning

topic: Jesus, Children, Father, Abba, Emotional Life

My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect---simply a confession of failures. Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. But I don't want to interrupt you. Go on with your story.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Loyalty, Passion, Boys, Lethargy, Dorian Grey

We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.

- Julius Lester

source: Julius Lester (2003). “When Dad Killed Mom”, p.130, HMH

topic: Emotional, Important, Emotion, Emotional Life

To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.

- Ian Somerhalder

topic: Emotional, Different, Who You Are, Emotional Life

Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (1987). “The collected papers of Albert Einstein: The Berlin years, writings, 1918-1921”, p.43, Princeton University Press

topic: Life, Fashion, Men, Peace And Security, Whirlpools