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| Rays of Emotions |
| "Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." --- Benjamin Disraeli "Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so." --- John Stuart Mill "By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it." --- Joseph Collins "Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large." --- Gandhi "Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup." --- Dogen "Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits." --- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen "Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness." --- John Sterling "Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind." --- Max Eastman "Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are." --- Henry Van Dyke "Happiness is good health and a bad memory." --- Ingrid Bergman "Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have." --- Rabbi H. Schachtel, The Real Enjoyment of Living "Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience." --- George Santayana "How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it." --- Marcus Aurelius "If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself." --- Horace "It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion." --- Mark Twain "It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home." --- Elizabeth Bowen "Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." --- Victor Borge "People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be." --- Abraham Lincoln "Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds." --- Percy Bysshe Shelley "Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination." --- Roy Goodman "Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time." --- Sir J. Lubbock  "Sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears."--- Paul Simon "The heart is forever inexperienced." --- Henry David Thoreau "The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation." --- Anne Rice, Taltos "The heart is half a prophet." --- Yiddish Proverb "The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter." --- Mark Twain "The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool." --- George Santayana "Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either." --- Golda Meir "To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring." --- George Santayana "Whoever is happy will make others happy too." --- Anne Frank "Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy." --- Leo Buscaglia "You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones." --- Greg Anderson "You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes." --- Margaret Drabble To submit your favorite emotional quotations, email [email protected] |
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