Human Emotions Quotes

• The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.

  Napoleon Hill

  Destiny, Civilization, World

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.163, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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  When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

  Dale Carnegie

  Relationship, Emotional, Remember You

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.161, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.

  Isadora Duncan

  Art, Levels, Emotion

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• Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.

  Thomas Harris

  Animal, Humanity, Emotion

  "Fictional character: Dr. Hannibal Lecter". TV Series "Hannibal" ("Coquilles", 2013), www.imdb.com. 2013–2015.

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  Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

  Plato

  Plato, Desire, Three

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• I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.

  Greg Lake

  Art, Thinking, Emotion

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• The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

  Edmund Burke

  Emotional, Curiosity, Mind

  Edmund Burke (2010). “On Taste, on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution & a Letter to a Noble Lord”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.

  Albert Ellis

  Thinking, Self, Feelings

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• Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.

  Owen D. Young

  Emotion, Destruction, Wells

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• Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

  William James

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Sadness, discomfort, frustration -- they are all valid human emotions. Why would we want to suppress them?

  Magda Gerber

  Sadness, Frustration, Want

  Magda Gerber (1998). “Dear Parent: Caring for Infants with Respect”

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• Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest. And it has power. Unbelievable power.

  Bill Frisell

  Hurt, Emotion, Kind

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• The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion.

  Sanford Meisner

  Roots, Acting, Sculpture

  Sanford Meisner, Dennis Longwell (2012). “Sanford Meisner on Acting”, p.42, Vintage

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• We all have human emotions that rob our lives.

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Emotion, Humans, Our Lives

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• Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

  Audre Lorde

  Knowledge, Emotional, Feelings

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.

  Charlie Sheen

  Love, Hate, Middle

  "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell, www.today.com. February 28, 2011.

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• Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.

  Duane Michals

  Love You, Love Relationship, Emotion

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• You're not the only one falling

  Kami Garcia

  Fall, New Girl, Acknowledge You

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2011). “Beautiful Chaos”, p.293, Hachette UK

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• But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

  Stephen King

  Im Sorry, Sorrow, I Am Sorry

  Stephen King (1974). “Carrie”

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• Marriage is the wastebasket for human emotions.

  Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield

  Marriage, Wedding, Emotion

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• Gratitude is the most important of all human emotions.

  Hans Selye

  Gratitude, Important, Emotion

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• A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.

  William James

  Emotion, Humans, Nonentity

  Dr. William James (2013). “What is an Emotion?”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.

  Napoleon Hill

  Foundation, Facts, Emotion

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.134, Penguin

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• The confessions can touch on every human emotion. They can be laugh-out-loud funny, for sure, they can be heart-breaking, they can be sexual or hidden acts of kindness, they can be romantic.

  Frank Warren

  Kindness, Heart, Laughing

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• They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.

  Virginia Woolf

  Children, Growing Up, Long

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.277, Wordsworth Editions

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