Quotes About Emotions

I don't want you to leap into another relationship without thinking. Looking for perfect is a big, fat myth because perfect isn't out there.

Tú eres guapa A.J., y además inteligente. el problema es que siempre te enamoras de la imagen de un chico, sin preocuparte de cómo es realmente

Come on over here and meet my memories

You don't understand the power of loss when it first hits you like a baseball coming fast from an out-of-control pitcher....It's the third day after an injury when the pain really starts to throb.

You know what it's like to move from being happy to being not? It's like swinging as high as you can and someone stops you as you come back down.

For, without the knowledge of love, fear is all that remains, and we can never feel safe.

Today, be aware of the judgments you make. Whenever you catch yourself judging someone, imagine that you are breathing in their pain in the form of black smoke. Breathe your happiness back to them.

How does your attitude affect your energy level?

Retrospect the way that you expressed feelings yesterday. If you tend to use your feelings as a way to justify feeling bad, consider the possibility that you could use your feelings as guides to feeling better.

When you express feelings, are you stating what is or are you blaming someone? If expressing your feelings generally makes you or other people feel worse—doing harm—try thinking about feelings as teachers, rather than as judges about how the world is treating you.

Bitterness and self-pity are deadly poisons that can't be hidden. They seem to exude from the pores.

This compulsion to look back, to explain to myself, to others, why I did what I did—or, worse, to justify why I didn't do something else—is one of the most direct roads to depression we have. Our thoughts, emotions, and attitudes, according to Dr. Andrew Weil in his book Healthy Aging, are "key determinants of how we age." They can threaten the quality of time we bring to the present.

He is afraid, as suddenly he knows that he was afraid all along, that if he felt her body so close to him he would never let her go.

And without good feelings about herself, she could not feel close to the goodness of the Mother.

More and more, people have begun to chant the economic mantras of Louis XIV's France. A successful restaurant has to do more than serve good food at a good price: it has to create an environment. It's not enough to offer customers a good product: you have to make them feel special by providing a hefty dose of emotion and drama along with the merchandise.

I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.

Sensibility, in Austen's time, meant relying on one's feelings as a guide to behavior, as a guide to truth.

By paying attention to another woman (Edward to Lucy and Frederick to Louisa), about whom he doesn't really care, each man hurts the woman he really loves and who really loves him.

Why didn't I feel that I belonged to my parents? How early could I have known that I was not right? I think it has always been part of me. Can a newborn sense her parents' disappointment and feelings of frustration at not being able to change the unchangeable?

I don't expect to have a fully verified story of how Jo's disorder developed, but I don't think that historical accuracy is as important as what I call "emotional truth." People attach different levels of significance to the same events. No two participants in any event remember it in exactly the same way. A single broken promise, for example, among thousands of promises kept, might not be remembered by a parent, but may never be forgotten by the child who was disappointed. (34)

More than one personality was created in the hope of being the daughter Nancy could consistently love. More than one new personality was created in response to Mother's unexpected fury.

The accuracy of my memories, whether things happened exactly the way that the personalities remember, doesn't really matter. If my memory, combined with the memories of the other personalities, provides some coherent past, then that is far better than the blankness I have. Whatever inaccuracies may occur because of the passage of time or because of the colored intensity of "emotional truth" harm no one. All that matters is that I gain a firm grasp on what is real. (165)

She knew she needed Lynn, so she wouldn't get angry at her. Jo's parents had taught her long ago that it was not safe to get angry at someone she depended on. (53)