Sadness is poetic¹. You're lucky to live sad moments. When you let yourself be sad, your body has antibodies. It has happiness that comes rushing in to meet the sadness.

C. K. Louis, The Conan O'Brien Show, 09-20-13

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996), Cosmos² (Blues for a Red Planet)

When dealing³ with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic⁴. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling⁵ with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.

Dale Carnegie

When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)

If you want to make people weep, you must weep yourself. If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

Giovanni Jacopo Casanova

When you own or take responsibility for your feelings, you place yourself in a position of power and control.

Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint⁶ Custody⁷ with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011

When you understand that your feelings are triggered by what you think about an event and not by the event itself, you gain a measure of control. Although you cannot control the things (events) that happen to you, or change your feelings (after all, you feel the way you feel), you can change your thoughts. A change in thoughts often radically⁸ alters your feelings.

Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

Marya Mannes

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.

Robert Henri (1865 - 1929)

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable⁹.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943