36 quotes
“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”
"Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too."
— Rainer Maria Rilke
"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts."
— Charles Dickens
"When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master."
— Spinoza
"Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears."
— Toni Morrison
"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."
"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."
— Maya Angelou
"Hate is like cancer, separate from the normal cells, devouring and not being nourished, annihilating itself along with everything it attacks."
— Madeleine L'Engle
"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 make sure I'm really here."
— Jodi Picoult
"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy."
— Jim Rohn
"We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are."
— Balzac
"On top of the world, or in the depths of despair."
— Goethe
"Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either"
— Golda Meir
"Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either."
"Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either."
"The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past."
— George Eliot
"There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed."
— Buddha
"Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear."
— Brian Tracy
"Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won't rain forever."
— Amy Poehler
"Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth."
— Chuck Norris
"It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important."
— Zig Ziglar