Embrace Your Feelings: A Collection of Inspirational Quotes About Emotions

"What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation."

- Glenn Close

"Being able to be your true self is one of the strongest components of good mental health."

- Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy

"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."

- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"Sometimes self care is exercise and eating right. Sometimes it’s spending time with loved ones or taking a nap. And sometimes it’s watching an entire season of TV in one weekend while you lounge around in your pajamas. Whatever soothes your soul."

- Nanea Hoffman

"I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them."

- Oscar Wilde

"I don't let anyone's insecurities, emotions, or opinions bother me. I know that if I am happy, that's all that matters to me."

- Demi Lovato

"Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships."

- Travis Bradberry

"Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for."

- Zig Ziglar

"You say you’re depressed — all I see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn’t mean you’re defective–it just means you’re human."

- David Mitchell

"Nothing can dim the light that shines from within."

- Maya Angelou

"All emotions—whether we view them as good or bad—have a single essence that’s beyond good or bad. No matter what they look like on the surface or how you judge them, emotions—at their core—are basically positive. Instead of seeing only opposition or contradiction, you see an unbiased wholeness. You recognize that all of your emotions spring from the same source: the spontaneous, ever-present creative energy of your own mind, your own heart."

- Dzogchen Rinpoche Ponlop

"There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t."

- John Green

"The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood."

- Voltaire

"But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem."

- Anne Frank

"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Your mental health is everything – prioritize it. Make the time like your life depends on it, because it does."

- Mel Robbins

"Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny."

- Frank Outlaw

"Empathy does not equal agreement."

- Chris Voss

"Care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves."

- Socrates

"Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions, because the body always follows the mind."

- Bruce Lee

"When anger rises, think of the consequences."

- Confucius

"Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive."

- Charlotte Brontë

"Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions."

- Deepak Chopra

"Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that something needs to change."

- Gretchen Rubin

"I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it."

- Daniel Boulud

"Emotions aren't just mindless urges; they contain thoughts about matters of importance."

- Martha Nussbaum

"The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason."

- Marya Mannes

"To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions."

- Stephen Fry

"Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance."

- Brian Tracy

"I think women are amazing for being able to show what they feel. I admire women who do. I think it's a mistake when women cover their emotions to look tough."

- Gal Gadot

"Emotions aren't the obstacles to a successful negotiation; they are the means."

- Christopher Voss

"Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind."

- Matthieu Ricard

"Our feelings are not there to be cast out or conquered. They’re there to be engaged and expressed with imagination and intelligence."

- T.K. Coleman

"We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions."

- Brene Brown

"You are valuable just because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done, but simply because you are."

- Max Lucado

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them."

- Joubert Botha

"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"When awareness is brought to an emotion, power is brought to your life."

- Tara Meyer Robson

"The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall."

- Edward O. Wilson

"You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you."

- Dan Millman

"Feelings are something you have; not something you are."

- Shannon L. Alder

"There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth."

- Fred Rogers

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"What worries you, masters you."

- John Locke

"The idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely do not subscribe to."

- John Cleese

"Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself."

- Rodney Dangerfield

"The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death."

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

"You are the sky. Everything else—it’s just the weather."

- Pema Chödrön

"Those that will not hear must be made to feel."

- German proverb

"Your present circumstances don’t determine where you go; they merely determine where you start."

- Nido Qubein

"You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle."

- Julian Seifter

"A belief is only a thought you continue to think. A belief is nothing more than a chronic pattern of thought, and you have the ability – if you try even a little bit – to begin a new pattern, to tell a new story, to achieve a different vibration, to change your point of attraction."

- Abraham Hicks

"Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames."

- Thomas Moore

"Emotional intelligence is not the opposite of intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over head – it is the unique intersection of both."

- David Caruso

"Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so."

- Lemony Snicket

"Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts."

- Sigmund Freud

"The only way to change someone’s mind is to connect with them from the heart."

- Rasheed Ogunlaru

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

"Apologizing doesn't always mean you're wrong and the other person is right. It means you value your relationship more than your ego."

"Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary emotion."

"Emotional intelligence allows us to respond instead of react."