Top 200 Emotion Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”

— Pablo Neruda

152. “When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.”

— Mark Twain

153. “CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise – and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.”

— Daniel Goleman

154. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

— William Shakespeare

155. “The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”

— Mother Teresa

156. “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”

— Charles Dickens

157. “Positive emotional energy is the key to health, happiness and wellbeing. The more positive you are, the better your life will be in every area.”

— Brian Tracy

158. “But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”

— William Butler Yeats

159. “Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.”

— Corrie ten Boom

160. “If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can’t survive.”

— Brené Brown

161. “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

— Rumi

162. “Appreciation is the purest vibration that exists on the planet today.”

— Esther Hicks

163. “Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now.”

— Earl Nightingale

164. “If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it’s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

165. “Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.”

— Brené Brown

166. “To make a relationship work, focus on what you appreciate about the other person, and not your complaints.”

— Rhonda Byrne

167. “I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.”

— Brené Brown

168. “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”

— Anaïs Nin

169. “The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.”

— Mother Teresa

170. “Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

171. “And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

172. “What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.”

— Seneca the Younger

173. “Go for someone who is proud to have you.”

— Frank Ocean

174. “If it’s still in your mind, it is still in your heart.”

— Paulo Coelho

175. “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”

— Anne Frank

176. “Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one the other disappears.”

— Marianne Williamson

177. “I close my eyes, think positive thoughts, and breathe goodness in and out.”

— Louise Hay

178. “There are places I’ll remember All my life though some have changed Some forever not for better Some have gone and some remain All these places have their moments With lovers and friends I still can recall Some are dead and some are living In my life I’ve loved them all.”

— John Lennon

179. “Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.”

— Khalil Gibran

180. “My philosophy is to “kill the monster while it’s little.” The best time to handle a “negative” emotion is when you first begin to feel it. It’s much more difficult to interrupt an emotional pattern once it’s full-blown.”

— Tony Robbins

181. “Any fool can be unhappy when things are not okay. But it takes courage to be happy even when things are falling apart.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

182. “You cannot save people. You can only love them.”

— Anaïs Nin

183. “Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.”

— Paulo Coelho

184. “You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.”

— James M. Barrie

185. “If you do not want to be unhappy, no one else can make you unhappy.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

186. “Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

187. “Heart be brave. If you cannot be brave, just go. Love’s glory is not a small thing.”

— Rumi

188. “Vulnerability is not about winning, and it’s not about losing. It’s about having the courage to show up and be seen.”

— Brené Brown

189. “Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

190. “Love is wise – Hatred is foolish.”

— Bertrand Russell

191. “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.”

— Oscar Wilde

192. “Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

193. “As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.”

— William Shakespeare

194. “It’s all right to love someone who doesn’t love you back, as long as they’re worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.”

— Cassandra Clare

195. “Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you. The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.”

— Eckhart Tolle

196. “Only two things can reveal life’s great secrets: suffering and love.”

— Paulo Coelho

197. “The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness.”

— Esther Hicks

198. “I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

199. “Encouragement is oxygen for the soul.”

— John C. Maxwell

200. “There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you’d better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you’ll never understand what it’s saying.”

— Sarah Dessen