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Quotes About Emotion

The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand.
~ Blaise Pascal
To live is like to love: all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct is for it.
~ Samuel Butler
The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.
~ William James
We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
~ La Rochefoucauld
Out of love you can speak with straight fury.
~ Eudora Welty
Open my heart and you will see Graved inside of it, "Italy."
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score; Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more; A thousand to that hundred; so kisse on, To make that thousand up a million; Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kisse afresh, as when we first begun.
~ Robert Herrick
A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth, and love.
~ Lord Byron
Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
~ Jonathan Swift
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
~ Martial
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
~ Madame de Stael
We come and we cry, and that is life; we yawn and we depart, and that is death!
~ Ausone de Chancel
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness and love are just a choice away.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Humor enables one to live in the midst of tragic events without becoming a tragic figure.
~ E. T. Eberhart
People need joy quite as much as clothing. Some of them need it far more.
~ Margaret Collier Graham
As you express joy, you draw it out of those you meet, creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express, the more joy you experience.
~ Arnold Patent
Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.
~ Melba Colgrove
Laughing deeply is living deeply.
~ Milan Kundera
Shared laughter is love made audible.
~ Izzy Gesell
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart.
~ Mort Walker
Every time a man smiles, and much more when he laughs, it adds something to his fragment of life.
~ Laurence Sterne
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to lovel
~ Victor Hugo