Quotes About Emotions

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

In the end, we get older, we kill everyone who loves us through the worries we give them, through the troubled tenderness we inspire in them, and the fears we ceaselessly cause.

I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.

The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help.

My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.

it isn't passions that make us weak, but rather uncontrollable passions.

you think the two of us have changed enough to make it interesting again?" Bitsy put her paw on the pavement. "Sometimes," she said, "I'm immensely grateful that I don't possess a limbic system.

The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event. That is why until we know what others think they know, we cannot truly understand their acts.

I better stop thinking in this manner, or before I know where I am I'll be bursting into tears, and it's a nice thing getting homesick before you even leave a place at all, so it is.

Er dachte bereits daran, in sein Gasthaus der Tränen zu gehen und sich dort aufzuhängen, an einem Strick aus Traumfäden.

Ist es nicht absurd, dass einem die Erinnerung an gute Zeiten viel eher die Tränen in die Augen treibt als die an schlechte?

Grosse lacrime cominciarono a scorrermi sulla faccia e mi sforzai di convincermi che era solo una questione di nervi. E invece piangevo per la tristezza di dover constatare che il tempo sfugge a tutti noi e non si lascia alle spalle altro che immagini sempre più pallide.

The great man say that life is pain," Coydog had said over eighty-five years before. "That mean if you love life, then you love the hurt come along wit' it. Now, if that ain't the blues, I don't know what is.

Let's say that the average age in the audience is twenty-five years. Six hundred times twenty-five equals fifteen thousand years of human experience assembled in that darkness—well over twice the length of recorded human history of hopes, dreams, disappointments, exultation, tragedy. All focused on the same series of images and sounds, all brought there by the urge, however inchoate, to open up and experience as intensely as possible something beyond their ordinary lives.

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

El apego es la incapacidad de renunciar a determinadas cosas cuando nos hacen daño, nos quitan libertad y generan malestar emocional.

Como dije, es indudable que existen emociones negativas y peligrosas que hay que aprender a gestionar, pero hay otras que deben asimilarse sin tanto recato. ¿Enseñamos ambas a nuestros niños: lo bueno para disfrutar y lo malo para eliminar? ¿O metemos todo en un mismo saco? ¿Fomentamos la "inteligencia emocional" o el "retardo emocional"?

desear lo que hay que desear en cantidades manejables y rechazar aquello que nos apegue.

La consigna es como sigue: o haces tu revolución afectiva o revientas.

Con el amor pasional no basta. Se necesita un amor que además de murciélagos en el estómago, sea justo, ético y digno, porque el amor sentimental -per se- no conlleva estas virtudes.

Una llamada telefónica de la persona que "supuestamente" nos ama puede estar motivada por muchas cosas distintas al amor: una simple nostalgia pasajera, confirmar un chisme, sentimientos de pesar o de culpa.

Você é mais desejável do que imagina, garanto. Além disso, tem a vantagem dos sobreviventes do amor: já sabe o que não quer num novo relacionamento.

Cuando digo no, me siento culpable.

Es un típico autoengaño. En realidad, lo que queremos es prolongar la permanencia del estimulante afectivo.