Quotes About Emotions

One of the things I've learned over the years by observing human nature is that anger will almost always cause you to make mistakes.

Vipassana involves genuinely looking at who and what you are, actually seeing the real self instead of the one we imagine ourselves to be. It means facing every fear, every unsated desire, every area where we just don't know a part of ourselves, and then releasing any claim on them. It's been shown to be effective in treating depression, anxiety, panic, just about every emotional disorder there is, and it does so by removing the importance of our emotions from our lives.

Content?" Neil asked. "Wouldn't that be an emotional response?" Noah shook his head. "No. Contentedness comes from an awareness of security. As long as you're not in danger, and there's no immediate situation that threatens your security or causes you discomfort, then you should be content. And speaking of content, breakfast is ready.

Again, this exists in people to differing degrees, and it is possible to have someone who is neutral—right in the middle of the spectrum. But Jimmy Palmer isn't neutral. He is about as far down in the dark depths as you can go. He is a sociopath. A psychopath. A man who has no feeling for those of his fellow creatures. He sees his family as his own to do whatever he wants with.

Then you found ways, strategies for dealing with it. There were techniques. She knew because she had studied them. The best one she had found was to turn the memory black and white, freeze the action, push the frozen, black and white image far away, notice the feeling of peace…

realizes it's her own loneliness that she sees in him.

Moscow, Russia It is a commonly held belief that twins, especially identical ones, share an inherent understanding of their co-twin's emotional state. They report experiences of enhanced emotional or physical connection, such as having a feeling of something being wrong when their twin is in crisis.

the smile was merely an affectation, that he had practiced it over and over until he could make it look genuine, but it still made her feel good. "Lieutenant Mathers, I appreciate that.

Dantes pensava que o amor se regia por números: primeiros beijos, segundas danças, desgostos infinitos. Estava convencido de que os números duravam mais tempo do que o amor em si, sobrevivendo nos recantos sombrios do coração destroçado. Pensava que o amor era algo pesado e duro.

Things have a way of taking on the lives of those around them, so when someone in the house betrays you, it's a betrayal multiplied in perpetuity: your favorite book turns to drivel; coffee in space-related paraphernalia, undrinkable; couches, unsittable. And when the betrayer walks out the front door for the last time, you'll have to dig a tunnel under the house, or exit through the chimney, because fuck that door.

Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers.

You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.

Writers (of supernatural fiction), who used to strive for awe and achieve fear, now strive for fear and achieve only disgust.

Indeed, depression changes the world itself and not just in the way the person views it.

Love somehow goes with suffering.

do this – and very large lines appeared across his forehead. His nostrils flared, becoming even wider holes than they already were. Speak-No, Hear-No and See-No

Time doesn't really heal, it just makes you not to give a crap.

Time doesn't really heal, it just makes you not to give a crap

Two people can care for each other but not want the same things.

We cannot live without memories, but we cannot live within them either.

It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.

There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook.

Getting your feelings hurt is not an offense. Feeling ignorant around someone is not an offense. Being made angry is not an offense.