Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

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

No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness.

For years I have endeavored to calm an impetuous tide -- laboring to make my feelings take an orderly course -- it was striving against the stream.

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

Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won't rain forever. You just have to sit down and watch it pour outside and then peek your head out when it looks dry.

What could he mean by speaking so, as if I were always thinking that he cared for me, when I know he does not; he cannot. ... But I won't care for him. I surely am mistress enough of myself to control this wild, strange, miserable feeling

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

If you don't feel good about something, you don't shake it off easily.

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

I can hear my brother's voice in my head. Your problem is that you're too emotional. But how can I not be emotional, Rowan? How can I not care?

The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding.

Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.

You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.

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

Sometimes happiness comes, sometimes sadness, anger, jealousy - you need not make them your problems

I do try to experience the emotions as they come, but sometimes it becomes just too much.

I must try to hide my emotions. I have to live with both the victory and the defeat.

I'm really happy with my life now, but there's a lot of stuff I feel very sad about in ways I can't even control.

You can either give in to what youre feeling, just say ‘okay, enough is enough’ and be done with it, or you can fight it.

I allow myself to have my feelings of disappointment and discouragement, but never to sit and wallow in them.

Negative feelings are like weeds. If you don't fully extract them (i.e. pull out the roots), they will come back.

Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.

The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a man may seem far from the passions, yet he is in as much danger of falling into them as one in a perfect state of health of having a fit of sickness.

Your present negative beliefs were formed by thought PLUS feelings. Generate enough emotion, or deep feeling and your new thoughts and ideas will cancel them out.