"Tears have a purpose. They are what we carry of the ocean, and perhaps we must become sea, give ourselves to it, if we are to be transformed." Linda Hogan, Solar Storms

‎"Remember that any time you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate." Dr. Wayne Dyer

"Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits." Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

"Children Learn What They Live. If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight. If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy. If a child lives with jealousy, he learns to feel guilty. If a child lives with impropriety, he learns to feel shame. If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient. If a child lives with encouragement he learns confidence If a child lives with praise, he learns to appreciate. He a child lives with fairness, he learns justice. If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith. If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself. If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world. With what is your child living?" Dorothy Law Neite

"Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the quicksand of smugness and self-satisfaction." Sydney Harris

"Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one's balance in spite of them." Carl von Clausewitz, 1780 - 1831

"They can't get your goat, unless you tell them where it's tied!" Unknown

"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy." William Blake

"The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited." Earl Nightengale

"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face." Ben Williams

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." Plutarch

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963)

"Only those in tune with nature seem to pick up on the energy in wind. All sorts of things get swept off in the breeze - ghosts, pieces of soul, voices unsung, thoughts repressed, love uncherished, and a thousands galore of spiritual ether. Wind is an emotional rush because emotions are rushing by." Drew Sirtors

"Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you." Roger Ebert

“Control your emotion or it will control you.” Samurai maxim