I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
When the subconscious mind must chose between deeply rooted emotions and logic, emotions will almost always win.
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.
When emotions dominate, maturity and wisdom deteriorate
By nature, most people are controlled by their emotions. They feel sad, so they look sad.
Acting and performing music is exactly the same. Therefore, an actor, for instance, who is very impressive, he's not simply imitating or trying to imitate, but he must dominate this kind of feeling, and then he transmits it in a much stronger way.
But what do I care, for love will be over so soon, Let my heart have its say and my mind stand idly by, For my mind is proud and strong enough to be silent, It is my heart that makes my songs, not I.
For Love will still be lord of all.
Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.
It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind.
For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when emotions hold sway.
It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations.
She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.
I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.
At that stage my heart ruled my head
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world.
There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.
I sometimes fancy," said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, "that Rome--mere Rome--will crowd everything else out of my heart.
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.
I'm almost completely ruled by my emotions.
