Top 200 Emotional Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

102. “When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

103. “For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”

— Carl Sagan

104. “Success on the outside means nothing unless you also have success within.”

— Robin S. Sharma

105. “In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.”

— Rumi

106. “Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.”

— Victor Hugo

107. “You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you can’t have both.”

— Brené Brown

108. “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”

— Muhammad Ali

109. “Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.”

— C. S. Lewis

110. “Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.”

— Dale Carnegie

111. “Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

112. “Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.”

— Paulo Coelho

113. “As nurses, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul, and body of our patients, their families, and ourselves. They may not remember our names but they will never forget the way we made them feel.”

— Maya Angelou

114. “Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.”

— Walt Disney

115. “You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel.”

— Johnny Depp

116. “Compassion is to look beyond your own pain, to see the pain of others.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

117. “Giving up doesn’t always mean you’re weak. Sometimes you’re just strong enough to let go.”

— Taylor Swift

118. “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”

— Maya Angelou

119. “Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.”

— Rikki Rogers

120. “Music is a total constant. That’s why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.”

— Sarah Dessen

121. “If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.”

— Paulo Coelho

122. “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”

— Franz Kafka

123. “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”

— Robert Frost

124. “Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all human diseases. Fear kills dreams and hope.”

— Les Brown

125. “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

— Henry David Thoreau

126. “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

127. “Volunteers don’t get paid, not because they’re worthless, but because they’re priceless.”

— Sherry Anderson

128. “I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”

— Robin Williams

129. “The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.”

— Paulo Coelho

130. “A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.”

— Buddha

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

— Mother Teresa

132. “Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

133. “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. ”

— Khalil Gibran

134. “Shame is a soul eating emotion.”

— C.G. Jung

135. “Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.”

— Brené Brown

136. “If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.”

— Toni Morrison

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

— Rumi

138. “Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.”

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Anaïs Nin

140. “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”

— Solomon

141. “The true beauty of music is that it connects people.”

— Roy Ayers

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

— Anne Frank

143. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

144. “Your feelings are your greatest tools to help you create your life.”

— Rhonda Byrne

145. “Every single second is an opportunity to change your life, because in any moment you can change the way you feel.”

— Rhonda Byrne

146. “If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?”

— Jim Carrey

147. “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”

— Frida Kahlo

148. “When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”

— Peter Marshall

149. “Every day is a new opportunity to change your life and be who you want to be.”

— Demi Lovato

150. “When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

— Haruki Murakami