Here are some proverbs and quotes about emotions.
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
Pope Paul VIAnger is the one thing made better by delay.
Don't speak or act immediately when you are angry; wait a bit.Any academic who doubts the depth of animal emotions ought to get a dog.
Frans de WaalBy 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.
Ray KurzweilColor is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
Claude MonetColors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
Pablo PicassoCourage is facing your fears. Stupidity is fearing nothing.
Todd BellemareEven a fly has its anger.
Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves.
Francis BaconHealth is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
LaoziHumans are the only animals that blush.
(unknown author)I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world.
Hans RoslingIf you are cold, tea will warm you. If you are too heated, it will cool you. If you are depressed, it will cheer you. If you are excited, it will calm you.
William GladstoneIf you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid 100 days of sorrow.
When you are angry, take some time before you speak.If you plant rice, rice will grow. If you plant fear, fear will grow.
CainSource: Kung Fu
Insects are living metaphors for me. They are so alien and so remote and so perfect, but also they are emotionless; they don't have any human or mammalian instincts. They'll eat their young at the drop of a hat; they can eat your house! There's no empathy - none.
Guillermo del ToroMan is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
Mark TwainNo one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.
Stephen HawkingPleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
Eckhart TollePostpone today's anger till tomorrow.
Sickness in the body brings sadness to the mind.
The best answer to anger is silence.
The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God,' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.
Carl SaganThe noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da VinciThe pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Charles DickensThe walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.
Jim RohnThere is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Josh BillingsTo conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand RussellWhat a joy walking is. All the cares of life, all the hopeless, inept fuckwits that God has strewn along the Bill Bryson Highway of Life suddenly seem far away and harmless, and the world becomes tranquil and welcoming and good.
Bill BrysonSource: The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
While it is February one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch.
Patience StrongWomen are like wasps in their anger.