Top 200 Emotional Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.”

— J.K. Rowling

152. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

— Helen Keller

153. “Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.”

— Mother Teresa

154. “Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

155. “True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience."”

— Oprah Winfrey

156. “In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.”

— Carl Sagan

157. “Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”

— Seneca

158. “Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

159. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

— Frederick Douglass

160. “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”

— Rumi

161. “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

162. “A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

163. “The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

— Anna Quindlen

164. “Making a living is not the same thing as making a life.”

— Maya Angelou

165. “Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go and it will be yours forever.”

— Deepak Chopra

166. “When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!”

— Brené Brown

167. “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

168. “Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love – now you are love.”

— Osho

169. “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

170. “It’s healthy to admit you’re not ok. ‘It’s ok not to be ok’ it’s brave. But don’t let it win. Be sad. Have your moment, your day or week. Then do something about it and be happy. For yourself.”

— Jessie J.

171. “When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.”

— Oprah Winfrey

172. “Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”

— J.K. Rowling

173. “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.”

— Richard Bach

174. “There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”

— Stephen Chbosky

175. “Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”

— Eckhart Tolle

176. “True happiness is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things.”

— Eckhart Tolle

177. “The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”

— Isak Dinesen

178. “We need silence to be able to touch souls.”

— Mother Teresa

179. “Don’t use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe.”

— Joel Osteen

180. “My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.”

— Charlie Chaplin

181. “Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

182. “You will always grow through – what you go through.”

— Tyrese Gibson

183. “Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.”

— Rumi

184. “Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don’t know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.”

— Osho

185. “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”

— Khalil Gibran

186. “Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”

— Cheryl Strayed

187. “Happiness depends only on your mind. When the mind is free of past impressions and future cravings, happiness is there.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

188. “And when you’re feeling empty, keep me in your memory. Leave out all the rest, leave out all the rest.”

— Linkin Park

189. “When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.”

— Brené Brown

190. “Your eyes show the strength of your soul.”

— Paulo Coelho

191. “When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves.”

— Steve Maraboli

192. “Remember your dreams and fight for them.”

— Paulo Coelho

193. “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”

— Maya Angelou

194. “Life isn’t happening to you; life is responding to you.”

— Rhonda Byrne

195. “We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.”

— Orson Welles

196. “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

197. “Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”

— Paulo Coelho

198. “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

— Epicurus

199. “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

200. “Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’”

— John Greenleaf Whittier