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Quotes About Emotion

JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.
~ Paulo Coelho
Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.
~ Morena Baccarin
There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.
~ Paul Bourget
What you're believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
~ Byron Katie
Let's assume there really is no such thing as happiness, no such thing as peace, and no freedom either. But there are kind of attacks of senseless ecstasy. Can this be me?
~ Sergei Dovlatov
I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness
Happiness is not so much a feeling as it is an attitude
~ Dennis Prager
Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
Happiness is a talent like any other. It's another art form. Some people are good at it, some people aren't.
~ Terri Windling
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
~ Herodotus
Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
~ Marquis de Sade
Don't think about happiness. If it doesn't come, there's no disappointment; if it does come, it's a surprise.
~ Boles?aw Prus
If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.
~ Rumi
If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.
~ Sid Caesar
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
~ Walter Savage Landor
I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.
~ Karel Appel
Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible.
~ William George Jordan
I wanted to be the photographer of happiness.
~ Malick Sidibe
Happiness is a strange word. So conclusive. Happiness is a thing that happens for a moment.
~ Kelly Reichardt
It's true. Happiness is a big thing.
~ Joel Parkinson
We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness.
~ Mary Oliver
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
~ Paul Rudnick
There is nothing ridiculous in love.
~ Olive Schreiner
It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.
~ Roger Zelazny, Threshold