You can’t turn love on and off like a light switch, no matter how hard you try. All you can do is wall it off, one brick at a time, until you’ve created an impenetrable fortress around your emotions. And once that fortress is built, you camouflage it so well that even you can’t see it anymore.
I can only assume," said Jace, "that mortal emotions amuse you because you have none of your own.
Higher emotions are what separate us from the lower orders of life... Higher emotions, and table manners.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
The emotions that good hunters need to cultivate are love and service more than courage. The sentiments of the hunt then become translated into art.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape...
Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
Im a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. And that works really well for me... And now I felt like my shell had a dangerous crack in it. Without much more effort on his part, it would split wide open and my enormous river of emotions would gush out - the bad and the good. It was pretty much the scariest thing I'd ever thought of." - Maximum Ride.
Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two people are together, in that intimacy, when they really, selflessly love each other it changes them both. It lingers on in the energy of their lives, even when they are apart.
Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people's opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions!