Never let your emotions rule, but always let them testify.

[more thoughts on emotional intelligence…]
Never let your emotions rule, but always let them testify.
– Robert Brault
Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.
– Vincent Van Gogh
The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.
– Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
Yes, that’s the worst of it. It’s a desperately vexatious thing that, after all one’s reflections and quiet determinations, we should be ruled by moods that one can’t calculate on beforehand.
– George Eliot
But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions?
– Vincent Van Gogh
How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
– Claude Debussy
One’s suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields – even to sadness.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Sorrow like rain makes roses and mud.
– Austin O’Malley
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.
– Ranier Maria Rilke
To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man’s heart.
– Francesco Guicciardini