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. Susie Orbach
Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion. John Jay Chapman
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. Ernest Hemingway
After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food. Rudyard Kipling
That’s all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end. Ringo Starr
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life. Anthony Robbins
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs. Bertrand Russell
Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions. Joseph Roux
All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. Rainer Maria Rilke
Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions. Saki (H H Munro)
Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them. Robert Henri
Ride your emotions as the shallop rides the waves; don’t get upset among them. There are people who enjoy getting swamped emotionally, just as, incredibly, there are people who enjoy getting drunk. Mary Austin