Emotions are suppressed or condensed motions.
-Wilfred Lay

Emotion has both the outward form of action or reaction
and the inward form of feeling.
-Gerald Epstein

Ideas move the world,
but not before
they are transformed into feelings.
-Gustave le Bon

Emotion is the motive power,
like the steam of an engine.
-Sivananda

Emotions are at the nexus between matter and mind,
going back and forth between the two and influencing both.
-Candace Pert

On one hand, emotion is an alchemical fire

whose warmth brings everything into existence

and whose heat burns all supeffluities to ashes...

But on the other hand, emotion is the moment when
steel meets flint and a spark is struck forth,
for emotion is the chief source of consciousness.
There can be no change from darkness to light
or from inertia into movement without emotions.
-Carl Jung

When emotions are directed,
they are a source of strength
for great achievements.
-Sivananda Radha

Life without emotion
is like an engine without fuel.
-Mary Astor

The greatest happiness
is to transform one's feeling into action.
-Madame de Stael

Allow motion to equal emotion.
-Elbert Hubbard

Emotions are the means by which
the mind and body communicate with each other.
-Serge Kahili King

Our bodies are a screen
on which we project our emotional life.
-Bruce Burger

A purely disembodied human emotion
is a nonentity.
-William James

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

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

Our emotions can take us to God
or they can take us to hell.
-Alan Cohen

Emotions are only held together by thought,
whether thought is conscious or unconscious.
-Gangaji

Emotions are waves of energy
that carry messages.
-Serge Kahili King

In a healthy organism,
feelings should pass like clouds over the sun.
When feelings get anchored by thought into our memory, 
they become emotions,
which are no longer related to the moment but to the past.
-B. K. S. Iyengar

The emotions may be endless. 

The more we express them, the more we may have to express. 

-E. M. Forster

Generally emotions are superficial, on the surface,
and they block a deeper entry in oneself.
-Mother Meera

Emotion is primarily about nothing
and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
-George Santayana

The human emotional system
can be broken down into roughly two elements: fear and love.
Love is of the soul.
Fear is of the personality.
-Gary Zukav

Deep down, at our core,
there are only two emotions: love and fear.
All positive emotions come from love,
all negative emotions come from fear.
From love flows happiness, contentment, peace and joy.
From fear comes anger, hater, anxiety and guilt.
-David Kessler

Emotion is an essentially unconscious process.
-Nico Frijda

Emotion is the spasmodic action
of energy.

-Inez Eudora Perry

Your emotions are physiological reactions
to your thoughts.
-Wayne Dyer

All emotions, by their very nature, are vaporous;
they are indistinct and oblique formations, like smoke or fog.
They move from positive to negative in illogical ways.
The minute you notice them 
they change into something else and disappear.
-Jacquelyn Small

No emotion is the final one.
-Jeanette Winterson

If negative emotions produce
negative chemical changes in the body,
wouldn't the positive emotions
produce positive chemical changes?
-Norman Cousins

Emotions are a great force,
but they must be controlled
before they can be utilized.
-William Walker Atkinson, "A. P. Mukerji"

To directly experience any emotion
is to neither deny nor wallow in it
and this means there can be no story about it.
-Merle Antoinette Roberson (Toni), "Gangaji"

All any feeling wants 

is to be welcomed with tenderness.

It wants room to unfold.

It wants to relax and tell its story.

It wants to dissolve like a thousand writhing snakes

that with a flick of kindness become

harmless strands of rope.

-Geneen Roth

Cherish your own emotions
and never undervalue them.
-Robert Henri

You have a right to your feelings.

Your feelings are there to tell you something,

but they are not infallible guides to behavior.

-Nathaniel Branden

Only through emotions can you encounter
the force field of your soul.
-Gary Zukav

Emotions exist only as they are felt.
-Serge Kahili King

You cannot know
what you do not feel.
-Marya Mannes

Only that which is deeply felt can change us.
-Marilyn Ferguson

After experiencing profound emotions, 
one sleeps profoundly.
-Stefan Zweig

The knowledge of the means of expressing our emotions
is only acquired through very long experience.
-Paul Cezanne

Every emotion you ever have
first passes through you
before it gets to somebody else.
-Georgia Nicols

Human emotions are the electricity
on which the Divine Energy can travel.
-Sivananda Radha

Feel emotionally shiny...
this is emotional stability.
-B. K. S. Iyengar