Emmet Fox Quotes

The principal difference between love and hate is that love is a irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.

How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?

The opposite of love is fear, not hate.

Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

Fashion is about good energy. It's about feelings. That's what I have to give the people, good energy and good feelings.

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

I take my inspiration for the song writing from little experiences, not even if I've experienced them myself but say if something has made me sad, I will use that emotion. I just use everyday life and write about it.

What is music for? It's to make you feel good.

Sometimes, I cry because I'm sad, and sometimes, I cry just because it's just emotional and it's super awesome.

Nobody can take what I love away from me. I would like to believe that love is the only energy I've ever used as a writer. I've never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.

These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.

People who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in the morning. And happiness is the goal, isn't it?

I want you to laugh and cry. That's what I do.

I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work.

When the audience leaves, I'd like them to feel positive when they go.

Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.

The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear.

I'm kinda rather make people laugh I guess or cry or whatever but bragging about what I have for me personally uncharacteristic I guess.

Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.

I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness. Crying for joy, and singing for joy, were alike uncommon to me while in the jaws of slavery. The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence of contentment and happiness, as the singing of a slave; the songs of the one and of the other are prompted by the same emotion.

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.

Everything that is fear cannot be love, and everything that is love cannot be fear.

I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion - and it definitely hurts me in some situations, and helps in some situations, like obviously writing and stuff is my favourite thing to do because I get to use all of my emotions and express them in that way.

Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard.