Emotions Quotes - Page 12

My relationship with him was defined by these complex emotions, this mixture of gratitude and resentment.

What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope misplaced can devastate you.

Life is like a rushing river. If we fight the current we are drawn under and drown in emotion.

Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

Art is the reflection of pure emotion and mind, the nature of sensation. An artist illustrates that.

Music is not in the notes but in what is between them.

In the years since, I learned that when I am missing Berk or Asta, I can play my tears through my instruments. And the Monitors think I am just improving. They don't know the truth. I play laughter and frustration. I play feelings I cannot define. But the music defines them for me.

Every time a new record started, people exhaled with pleasure, or their bodies moved automatically. I really started getting high off of the euphoric exclamations. Every record I put on was like a baptism.

If you don't feel an overwhelming sense of emotion when you listen to music, then you're listening to the wrong kind.

The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.

Music isn’t just heard, it is felt.

Ego-generated emotions are derived from the mind's identification with external factors which are, of course, all unstable and liable to change at any moment.

Emotional states change like the wind, and to indulge them only gives them more power over a person.

People who are unwilling to talk about deep personal issues do not trust their own emotions.

People pay a dear price when not dealing with the powerful emotions.

It may be our actions that define us, but it is our reaction that changes the course of things.

Civilized people don't feel.

I’m endlessly fascinated by the way people interact, what they say to each other and how they respond to different situations.