Jonathan Carroll Quotes

There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.

Wise people may say what they will, but one passion is never cured by another.

I just think I've always been sensitive and had difficulty containing my feelings, and I've always searched for outlets for that, because otherwise those feelings come out in chaotic ways that aren't always great.

Anger is my biggest enemy in life.

We are not responsible for our feelings, as we are for our principles and actions. ... Our care, then, should be to look to our principles, and to avoid all anxiety about our emotions. Their nature can never be wrong where our course of action is right, and for their degree we are not responsible.

Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is just as hard to work for as the volcanic boss, and both can do great harm by setting an unhelpful example for what kind of emotional expression is expected and accepted.

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.

It is clear to me that one of the biggest obstacles we face as human beings is the pain we put ourselves through when we resist and wrestle with our emotions.

I'm going to fight the force of emotions by that of intellect

When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

Emotions are my weakness. It is in my blood. It is very difficult to control.

It is not in my character to be so emotional.

Diego Costa doesn't show any emotion. I am more emotional. So I have learned to control my emotions.

Sometimes I get emotional. I let my emotions get the best of me.

I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?

Letting an emotion move through you is healthy. Letting an emotion define you is not.

Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

Even though sometimes you can control your anger, you can't control your sadness.

My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.

Trump's inability to control his own emotions is standing between himself and the presidency.

To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.

My God, he couldn't help thinking, how terrible it is to be that age, to have emotions so near the surface that the slightest turbulence causes them to boil over. That, very simply, was what adulthood must be all about -- acquiring the skill to bury things more deeply. Out of sight and, whenever possible, out of mind.

Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension to draw upon when making decisions or encountering situations. Emotional expression by contrast can mean being driven by emotions, so that it isn't possible to think. These two things are often confused, because we are still uncomfortable with the idea of the validity of feelings.

The mind scolds the heart, which makes excuses and goes its own way.