Mary Astor Quotes

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. When we are happy, we are not [rational]. 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.

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

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

I am proud to be an emotionalist.

I am not minimizing emotions. Emotions are an important part of life.

I guess I'm pretty emotional.

Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you.

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

I can access emotions very easily.

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

Not being locked into one set of feelings, which you run the risk of mistaking for the truth, you have greater and more intense access to all feeling states, including those you would never choose to act out.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don't.

The emotion, and the other aspect is that this relate to many different obstacle in life. Emotion, yes, I love emotion, for your information, very much so.

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

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

And in part that's good but then, like any emotion - and this is something we learned from the research as well - there are positive and negative aspects to all of these.

Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

Find a way to express what moves you.

If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe.

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.

But I don't want to have to stop feeling. I really think I'd rather die than stop feeling.

The longer I live, the less I trust ideas, the more I trust emotions.

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion.

Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice to that one of its 'values', Truth.

It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned how to make feeling work for me... I don't know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what 'soul' is all about.