“Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”
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Golda Meir
3 quotes“Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either”
Toni Morrison
2 quotes“I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.”
Neal Shusterman
2 quotes“but laugh, laugh, laugh, because if you ever stop laughing, it might just tear you apart”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2 quotes“Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.”
Balzac
2 quotes“We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.”
Spinoza
1 quote“When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.”
Brian Tracy
1 quote“Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.”
Chuck Norris
1 quote“Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.”
Charles Dickens
1 quote“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our har...”
Colleen Hoover
1 quote“When you aren't sure what it is you hate or why you even hate it, it's hard to hold onto the details...you just hold on...”
Demi Lovato
1 quote“Watch a movie that makes you laugh or listen to a song that makes you cry. Embrace your emotions and be proud of what yo...”
Elizabeth Gilbert
1 quote“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”