Quotes About Emotions

resentment, condemnation of others, remorse, and hostility are behind a host of maladies ranging from arthritis to cardiac disease.

The alcoholic learns that whatever thought he anchors his mind upon, the latter magnifies. If the alcoholic engages his mind on the concept of freedom (freedom from the habit) with peace of mind, to keep his attention focused on this new direction, he generates feelings and emotions that gradually emotionalize the concept of freedom and peace. Whatever idea is emotionalized is accepted by the subconscious mind—it is consequently brought to pass.

All frustration is due to unfulfilled desires. If

Who is thinking and feeling it? You are! As you think and feel, so are you.

You think with your conscious mind, and whatever you habitually think sinks down into your subconscious mind, which then creates according to the nature of your thoughts. Your subconscious mind is the seat of your emotions. It is the creative mind. If you think good, good will follow; if you think evil, evil will follow. This is the way your mind works.

We injure ourselves by the negative ideas which we entertain. How often have you wounded yourself by getting angry, fearful, jealous, or vengeful? These are the poisons that enter your subconscious mind. You were not born with these negative attitudes. Feed your subconscious mind life-giving thoughts, and you will wipe out all the negative patterns lodged therein. As you continue to do this, all the past will be wiped out and remembered no more.

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

Revealed for what they are, thoughts lose their power. Watching them come and go, dissolving as easily as they arose, you have a choice about what you pay attention to and what you disregard. They have power only to the extent that you give it to them.

Instead, learn to surf on the waves of nervousness. Why

If you take a bigger perspective, letting them come and go, they don't hold such power over you.

The fact that you are feeling unhappy does not entitle you to inflict your bad mood on others.

Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love.

The miraculous intimacy we shared did not have the time to generate into resentful emotional bondage

No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal. And music has always been a great way to make people aware of that connection. It can help you open up a part of yourself and express feelings you didn't know you were feeling. It's risky to let that happen. But it's a risk you have to take-because only then will you find you're not alone.

No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal.

More than anything I wish he were here with me. A relationship is an accumulation of shared history, he'd said to me once. And here I was making history without him. It's lonely. And I can't wait to go home. Parts of me are showing through my Aqua, and I'm having a hard time keeping them separate.

Because holding onto someone is not the same as keeping them close. - I Am Not Myself These Days

I've always thought that one of the signs of true adulthood is when you realize that you spend each Christmas trying to relive childhood memories that never really happened in the first place.

Secrets that reside only in the mind of one person aren't really secrets. They're unspoken fears.

Jayson had decided that he was homosexual while watching a Phil Donahue episode on the topic eight years earlier. He'd come home early from kindergarten that day because he'd gotten a stomach ache from worrying about whether his Hee Haw overalls were too outré for his peers.

How am I, a writer, supposed to feel about having lost you to a reader?

All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else's poor decision making.

swatting at the bees only makes them angrier.

The inclination to exchange thoughts with one another is probably an original impulse of our nature. If I be in pain I wish to let you know it, and to ask your sympathy and assistance; and my pleasurable emotions also, I wish to communicate to, and share with you. —ABRAHAM LINCOLN, February 11, 1859