Quotes About Emotions

The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.

The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.

Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life.

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.

We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.

Did you mean it when you said it? Did you fall in love with me? Because I finally realized that I fell hard for you. I was fooling myself in not admitting it when I had you with me.

He could no longer separate sex and love. Not now that he'd known--and destroyed--love. Since he couldn't seem to fall out of love with Gordon, he was stuck not liking sex with anyone else.

Unfelt feelings don't cease to exist; they stay bottled up in our minds and our bodies. They dissipate when given expression. A heart can break only if it is closed—if it remains open there is nothing to break.

Feelings are your soul's way of communicating. Pain is trying to teach you something, and if you don't listen now, it will speak louder and louder until it is heard.

I learned years later that my gratitude practice actually helped me form new neural pathways. The hippie rituals of positive affirmations are not just baloney. Gratitude doesn't exist only in your mind—you have to feel it in your whole being. Feelings are the shadows of thoughts. When we have negative thoughts, our emotions mirror them with anxiety. You can often see what you are thinking by reverse engineering and studying your feelings.

When angered I ask myself, "If I removed my anger or hurt from this situation and acted out of love and unity—if I acted from my highest self—what would I do now?

I saw all my new mom friends go through a sadness other than postpartum depression: it is grieving the loss of your old self, of who you used to be.

Happiness does not rely on what you have or who you are. It relies on what you think.

It was hard to bear your soul while someone was talking to their friend about a new sweater they bought.

I cry now as I write this. So lasting are the scars of the child who never feels worthy of love. So many cycles in my life of having to learn that I am indeed worthy of tenderness.

They seemed disconnected, hollow somehow, deeply withdrawn.

At school, at home, in bars, I was an emotional contortionist, alternating between awkward self-aggrandizing and trying to win favor so as to fit in. When I wrote, I let myself be dead honest, flaws and all. But I was myself, I felt real. I went inside myself when a pen was in my hand and enjoyed that space in there.

Feelings are the shadows of thoughts. When we have negative thoughts, our emotions mirror them with anxiety. You can often see what you are thinking by reverse engineering and studying your feelings.

It is better to laugh about your problems than to cry about them.

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.

Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.

You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money.

Isolation offered its own form of companionship