Peter Ackroyd Quotes

There are two emotions: love and fear.

Gratitude and fear can't stand the sight of each other.

If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow.

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.

Fear pounds on the door to our heart demanding to be let in. Joy is modest and often comes into our lives like a shy person entering a room; it can take a while to even notice it's there.

How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.

The opposite of love is fear, not hate.

Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.

Fear and guilt are your only enemies. Love and awareness are your true friends. Do not confuse one with the other, for one will kill you, while the other gives you life.

There are only two emotions: love and fear. All positive emotions come from love, all negative emotions from fear. From love flows happiness, contentment, peace, and joy. From fear comes anger, hate, anxiety and guilt. It's true that there are only two primary emotions, love and fear. But it's more accurate to say that there is only love or fear, for we cannot feel these two emotions together, at exactly the same time. They're opposites. If we're in fear, we are not in a place of love. When we're in a place of love, we cannot be in a place of fear.

I truly have come to believe that there are only two states of being that generate our thoughts: LOVE or FEAR.

Compassion suits our physical condition, whereas anger, fear and distrust are harmful to our well-being. Therefore, just as we learn the importance of physical hygiene to physical health, to ensure healthy minds, we need to learn some kind of emotional hygiene.

Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.

Love and fear are the two opposite ends of the continuum, as far as I'm concerned. When we are not in love, we are in fear.

The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.

Anger is the energy that people use in order to act. But when you are angry, you are not lucid, and you might do wrong things. That is why compassion is a better energy.

Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear