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