Quotes About Emotions

Women weep for the dead. Men avenge them.

But these first needs of the heart are so imperious, these outpourings of amorous melancholy in young people are at once so sweet and so bitter, that they have often all the real marks of the passion.

Catherine wished to discover whether her son were really ill or feigning. But he, worthy son of such a mother, played his part to perfection. She had wept, he had a fever.

you cannot reproach me with the slightest coquetry. I have always said to you, 'I love you as a brother; but do not ask from me more than sisterly affection, for my heart is another's.' Is not this true, Fernand?

Never be afraid to cry. Sometimes, nothing can cleanse the heart more than a few wet tears.

Anger is the mirror image of fear. It begins as fear, and is expressed outwardly as anger.

Fears and worries originate in the mind. Love and joy originate from the soul.

I had to learn to praise Him regardless of what my emotions felt like doing. I had to learn to praise him even if my body did not want to.

When readers feel strongly, their hearts are open. Your stories can not only reach them for a moment, but they can change them forever.

We experience life as feelings. It's funny, then, that so much fiction is written to minimize feelings or leave them out altogether. It's as if emotions are not a fit subject or writing about them is too simplistic. Even fiction that celebrates feelings, romance for instance, can sometimes work with only a limited and familiar emotional palette. We can wallow in emotional content yet feel curiously empty.

Sometimes those who are easiest to love are hardest to respect. - Ashley Wilkes

Well, more than likely you will never entirely dissolve either your fear of your own failure or your small pleasure in other people's.

The boundaries of human experience are finite (if you haven't experienced emotions such as pain or fear or shame, you are either a sociopath or an alien), but within these boundaries there is significant range and diversity.

Los Salmos fueron escritos por hombres de carne y hueso quienes fueron también hombres de Dios. Ellos experimentaron conflictos reales y pruebas duras, tal como nosotros mismos los padecemos. No tienes que leer mucho antes de encontrar que sus palabras se convierten en las tuyas y sus corazones expresan tu propio corazón.

We must, however, reaffirm what we know to be true, even when we don't feel it to be true. This will help us to live more by faith than by feelings.

Puedes encontrar toda la gama de emociones humanas a lo largo de los 150 salmos. Júbilo, frustración, desaliento, culpa, perdón, gozo, gratitud, el trato con los enemigos, contentamiento, descontento —y todo lo demás que puedas estar pensando ahora—: todo se encuentran en el libro de los Salmos.

Donde los sentimientos por Dios están muertos, la adoración está muerta»

I maintain that people—truly born-again, genuinely Christian people—often do not pray simply because they do not feel like it. And the reason they don't feel like praying is that when they do pray, they tend to say the same old things about the same old things.

I have turned to work again and again over the years as an antidote to the pains of life. Work is the best alleviator of sorrow I know, and once again, it is standing me in good stead. So I will work--and cry on my own time.

James MacGregor Burns wrote that "the Leader's fundamental act is to induce people to be aware or conscious of what they feel – to feel their true needs so strongly, to define their values so meaningfully, that they can be moved to purposeful action.

Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you.

A heart that boils over with rage blisters the mind and scalds reason.

Guys always think tears are a sign of weakness. They're a sign of FRUSTRATION. She's only crying so she won't cut your throat in your sleep. So make nice and be grateful.

When we contain rather than constantly discharge our feeling state, we allow ourselves to feel completely. In feeling completely, we reexperience our aliveness and the source of that aliveness. When we cultivate the discipline to pause, it becomes possible for us to make a choice that is outside our normal habit pattern. And it is in breaking through these entrained patterns that we can begin to experience a more liberated state of being.