Jeanette Winterson Quotes

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

We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

You'll have to learn to control your emotions. They're new, like achild's now, bursting with passion. Never let them fade, or part of you will die. But they cal also destroy you. Hold them dear, but don't let them take hold of you.

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.

I am proud to be an emotionalist.

We have the choice to choose how we're going to educate our emotions.

In this world, man has two significant possessions: intelligence and emotion. These two possessions govern our day-to-day life. But very often we see that emotion (ego) gets the upper hand in our life. We know that even if someone is extremely intelligent, when his emotion comes to the fore it will devour him. He is compelled to do what his emotion asks him to do.

The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.

I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy.

The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

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

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

Emotions are not tools of cognition. They tell you nothing about the nature of reality.

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

I guess I'm pretty emotional.

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.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

Everyone has emotions; you just learn to use then and be comfortable with them.

I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older.

I am actually very in touch with all of my emotions, from joy to pain, and I am free with them.

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither is desirable. Without emotion, much social interaction loses its meaning or changes for the worse.