Quotes About Emotions

An explosive outburst—like other forms of maladaptive behavior—occurs when the cognitive demands being placed upon a person outstrip that person's capacity to respond adaptively.

The essential function of challenging behavior is to communicate to adults that a kid doesn't possess the skills to handle certain demands in certain situations.

If you respond to a child who's having difficulty putting his emotions aside so as to think through solutions by imposing your will more intensively and "teaching him who's the boss," you probably won't help him manage his emotions. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Money doesn't make you happy, Mom insists, whipping carrots and lettuce out of the cart. Money doesn't make you laugh when you're lonely, or make you full of contentment on Christmas morning.

Deep, dark secrets always hurt to share. That's why we keep them in the deep dark.

For the first time in my life, I understand the meaning of the word swoon. And I don't like it. Swooning is dangerous, helpless, and it doesn't feel so great.

If you want to know where your heart is, follow your mind when it wanders.

Li não sei onde que, numa separação, aquele que não ama e' o que diz as coisas carinhosas.

Mucho antes de Cristo había en Grecia un poeta que decía: Tengo un gran arte, hiero duramente a aquellos que me hieren. Mi arte es más grande aún: quiero a aquellos que me quieren".

It's as though as a species we have no brakes, only breakdowns.

I've learnt that if you let out your anger on someone, it comes back to you like acid reflux and you've poisoned yourself and feel toxic and nauseated while the taxi driver probably just goes back to his home and wife and has a lovely life. I

The most cognitively brilliant people usually have had to sacrifice their emotional selves.

Our brains collect images from the moment we're born and file them away as either safe or dangerous. Whenever we see someone or something we dive into our memories to see who that person or scene reminds us of.

Thought must be permeated with feeling; otherwise it will not pass into the realm of soul and it will be stillborn thought.

It was very sad to see my father cry, but I understood it, because sometimes a man has to cry. Even if he is a man.

There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and woman to fill our day; But when we are certain of sorrow in store, Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers & Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

These two things fight together in me as the snakes fight in the spring. The water comes out of my eyes; yet I laugh while it falls. Why?

Holden went to his bungalow and began to understand that he was not alone in the world, and also that he was afraid for the sake of another, -- which is the most soul-satisfying fear known to man.

Hearts are like horses. They come and they go against bit or spur.

So Mowgli sat and cried as though his heart would break; and he had never cried in all his life before.

To things greater than all things are,   The first is Love, and the second War.   And since we know not how War may prove,   Heart of my heart, let us talk of Love!

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice

One of the things that has to be learned is that even sorrow cannot be had in peace, because other people have sorrows too.

Perhaps it was the pulling up of her stakes, or claims, to her private loves, renouncing them, that had made room for these people in a kind of universal love, without any claims.