It takes courage and strength to be sensitive to things and even more strength and courage to own up to it or be vocal about it. Robots, the only things with a perfect lack of emotional capacity, are easily controlled, and I suddenly realized that’s why the military often trains people to suppress their emotions. Unfortunately for them, humans aren't machines. We feel, we love, we cry, we despair, and we rejoice. Anyone who’s ever tried to convince me not to feel is someone I shouldn’t have trusted. The only reason you should shut off your emotions and emulate a robot is if you're doing horrible things. How fatal my decisions have been. How many people would be loving, rejoicing, and feeling right now rather than crying indefinitely in the depths of the afterlife? If only I’d figured this out sooner. Bruce Crown
About This Quote

A person who is emotionally controlled and doesn’t allow themselves to be happy, love, or feel pain will never experience anything good. If they are aware of their emotions, they can actually prevent a lot of bad things from happening. A person who is emotionally controlled won’t have the ability to feel any form of happiness or pain. They will have no idea what they are feeling and think that it is normal. If you want to experience a life full of happiness and pleasure, you must learn how to let go of your emotions.

Source: Forlorn Passions

Some Similar Quotes
  1. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao Tzu
  2. Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. - Maya Angelou
  3. You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of... - Lauren Oliver
  4. ...Who could refrain, That had a heart to love, and in that heart Courage to make love known? - William Shakespeare
  5. We, unaccustomed to courageexiles from delightlive coiled in shells of lonelinessuntil love leaves its high holy templeand comes into our sightto liberate us into life. Love arrivesand in its train come ecstasiesold memories of pleasureancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes... - Maya Angelou
More Quotes By Bruce Crown
  1. If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
  2. We seek God so earnestly, Eliav reflected, not to find Him but to discover ourselves.
  3. I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
  4. Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually.
  5. Over a hundred German scientists arrived here [Huntsville] at eleven o’clock on an April morning and by nightfall more than sixty had applied for cards at the free library.
Related Topics