Top 200 Emotional Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Care Quotes

2. “Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Poetry Quotes, Sad Quotes, Loss Quotes

3. “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Meaning Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

4. “You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.”

— Bob Marley

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Resilience Quotes

5. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Short Positive Quotes

6. “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”

— Mary Tyler Moore

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Courage Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Failure Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes

7. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

— J.K. Rowling

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Failure Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

8. “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”

— Sarah Dessen

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9. “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes, Encouragement Quotes

10. “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Quality Quotes

11. “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes

12. “A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Quotes About Heart

13. “At the end of the day people won’t remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Love Quotes, Be Kind Quotes

14. “You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

15. “We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.”

— Paulo Coelho

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16. “Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes

17. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”

— Helen Keller

Also featured in: Feel Good Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Love Life Quotes, Quality Quotes

18. “If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.”

— Mother Teresa

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19. “We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Meaningful Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

20. “Embrace the glorious mess that you are.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Life Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes

21. “I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”

— Kurt Cobain

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Be Yourself Quotes, Character Quotes, Honesty Quotes

22. “The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Emotion Quotes, Caring Quotes, Helping Quotes

23. “Write hard and clear about what hurts. ”

— Ernest Hemingway

Also featured in: Quotes About Writing, Struggle Quotes, Suffering Quotes

24. “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Encouragement Quotes

25. “In your light I learn how to love.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Emotion Quotes

26. “The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes, Poetry Quotes

27. “Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Attitude Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Positive Life Quotes

28. “Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Christian Motivational Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Peace Quotes

29. “What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Short Inspiring Quotes, Spirituality Quotes, Growth Quotes

30. “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”

— Helen Keller

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Meaning Quotes, Reflection Quotes

31. “Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Positivity Quotes, Empowering Quotes

32. “Love is the goal, life is the journey.”

— Osho

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life, Sweet Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

33. “When life leaves us blind, love keeps us kind.”

— Chester Bennington

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Relationship Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Compassion Quotes

34. “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

— Khalil Gibran

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Relationship Quotes, Smile Quotes

35. “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tune without the words - and never stops at all.”

— Emily Dickinson

Also featured in: Short Positive Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students

36. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

— Helen Keller

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Optimism Quotes, Winning Quotes, Empowerment Quotes

37. “Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest.”

— Daisaku Ikeda

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Strong Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Moving On Quotes

38. “Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.”

— Khalil Gibran

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Love Life Quotes, Quotes About Feelings

39. “You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Psychology Quotes, Self-Love Quotes

40. “Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it’s also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Psychology Quotes, Meaningful Quotes

41. “You are free. You are powerful. You are good. You are love. You have value. You have purpose. All is well.”

— Esther Hicks

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

42. “There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes, Creative Quotes

43. “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

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Psychology Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Emotion Quotes

44. “Love yourself, accept yourself, forgive yourself, and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.”

— Leo Buscaglia

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Care Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

45. “Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Short Inspiring Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Fiction Quotes

46. “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Care Quotes, Self-Love Quotes

47. “Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Optimistic Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Poetry Quotes

48. “A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Inner Peace Quotes

49. “You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

— Buddha

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50. “Be less of a judge and you will be surprised that when you become a witness and you don’t judge yourself, you stop judging others too. And that makes you more human, more compassionate, more understanding.”

— Osho

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Awakening Quotes, Human Nature Quotes