Frank Luntz Quotes

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.

It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on vacation, we are not rational; we are emotional.

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

When a child shuts down his painful emotional side, he also loses the ability to express his joyous side. Emotions are a whole. With anger comes the ability to express delight; with sadness comes the ability to express lightheartedness. This is the breadth of emotion that allows an adult to experience intimacy with a spouse, with God, and with his children

Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

Without love, intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence, love is not enough.

I am proud to be an emotionalist.

I guess I'm pretty emotional.

There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn’t. When we are objective we are subjective too. When we are neutral we are involved. When we say ‘I think’ we don’t leave our emotions outside the door. To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

The more we ignore our emotions, the more likely they are to wield a powerful influence over us.

Where there is love, there is joy.

Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.

Anyone who says he is not emotional is not getting what he should out of life.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart.

In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing.

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

We're humans, and we're moved by emotions.

I'm a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry often and easily. I think you're supposed to feel all kinds of things. You're supposed to laugh, you're supposed to cry, you're not supposed to shove your feelings under the rug.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

As Christians, we are not to be people without feelings.

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.