Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
Andre Gide

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.
Albert Einstein

Sadness flowers to the next renewing joy.
Jareb Teague

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

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

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

One’s suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields – even to sadness.
Antoine de Saint

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.
John Sterling

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
Mark Twain

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
Jim Rohn

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
Claude Debussy

Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf.
Jonatan M�rtensson