Quotes About Emotions

Just tell 'em you're gonna soak the fat boys and forget the rest of the tax stuff...Willie, make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em mad, even mad at you. Stir them up and they'll love it and come back for more, but, for heaven's sakes, don't try to improve their minds.

There were absences in my life which were a comfort, then were was a presence that ruined me.

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.

Human emotions have deep evolutionary roots, a fact that may explain their complexity and provide tools for clinical practice. The Nature of Emotions (2001)

I love being on stage. I'm completely, totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.

We need a safe environment to express our emotions: a good friend or counselor who will help us get in touch with our true feelings, which we may have suppressed for years. We can also learn to express ourselves fully to the Lord and tell Him our true feelings, fears, hopes, and dreams. (The

Your greatest challenges are never about what other people do, but rather about how you respond. They are about whether you can accept, understand, and thus rise above the emotions that others' actions cause inside you. Spiritual growth is not about you changing the world; it is about going within and changing yourself.

In many ways life is a journey from the head to the heart.

Llorar es el modo natural que tiene el cuerpo de limpiar tal densidad energética; las lágrimas hacen que fluya la energía, y de ese modo permiten la sanación. 

Llorar porque queremos es un modo amoroso y benévolo de cuidar de nosotros mismos.

People, my dear, are little children at heart. We all want to be loved and wanted and cherished. We want to know we matter to others, and they're glad we're here. That's the best gift you can give someone. That's all really we can ever give. To tell someone else you love them for everything they are and everything they're not. Don't underestimate that.

You can't sing Beethoven from the neck up --- you'll bleed! Beethoven is not precious. He's prodigal as hell. He tramples all over nicety. He's ugly, heroic; he roars, he lusts after beauty, he rages after nobility. Be ye not temperate!

You are a creature of emotion, Doctor. But what use are emotions if you will not save the woman you love?

Nothing got him angrier than when people implied he was paranoid. It made him feel persecuted.

The physical distress was over, but something else still remained, some sort of free-floating disquiet, at first hard to comprehend, but which he came quickly to understand for what it was: the splendor of the tunnels had kindled in him at first a sense of admiration verging on awe, but that had gone moving swiftly onward through his soul to become a crushing, devastating sensation of personal inadequacy.

Your pain pained me.

What's personality anyway? A mask of emotions, superimposed on the body and the intellect.

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell.

The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew.

I know it's hard. It's one of the hardest things there is, but you know we can't make people love us. It happens, or it doesn't.