The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.”

Others on Emotions

Golda Meir

3 quotes

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either”

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.”

Neal Shusterman

2 quotes

but laugh, laugh, laugh, because if you ever stop laughing, it might just tear you apart”

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.”

Carl Sandburg

2 quotes

Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”

Balzac

2 quotes

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.”

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...”

Jodi Picoult

1 quote

You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to mak...”

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...”

Coretta Scott King

1 quote

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”

Lisa Kleypas

1 quote

But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.”

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...”