Quotes About Emotions

Men who are cut off, careful, and closed are also lonely and just as vulnerable in a different way as their wives alone in a dark alley after midnight.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Fear is a self-protection we use to insulate ourselves from hurt by pulling back. Anger is self-protection we use to insulate ourselves from hurt by striking out.

Of course God went after Jonah, inquiring gently, "Do you do well to be angry?"10 However, insane from isolation, Jonah answers remarkably, "Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die."11 Wow!

Optimists are the least prepared for the loss of hope.

Everything I have described so far seems to have happened to somebody else—to somebody else's father. But the death of a parent happens to you, and, once it starts, it never stops. It dislodges everything.

Discernment, says Lonsdale, is about the "spiritual interpretation and evaluation of feelings, and particularly with the direction in which we are moved by them.

lies, illusions, and self-serving excuses that cloud our minds make us less able to give and receive love.

I will recommend focusing on gratitude. This is not to dismiss or cover up the sadness. Rather, when we are sad, we tend to assume that there is no good at all in life. Focusing on gratitude helps to restore our whole vision.

after the birth of her first child. It read: "Full of unexplainable love. And exhausted to the bone." Some things are difficult to describe, even for the most articulate, and sometimes the descriptions seem contradictory. It's hard to put big experiences into words.

birth of her first child. It read: "Full of unexplainable love. And exhausted to the bone." Some things are difficult to describe, even for the most articulate, and sometimes the descriptions seem contradictory. It's hard to put big experiences into words.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Let no one who loves be unhappy... even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad

Dragons know nothing of human hearts. The loveliest woman never sees her own beauty with her eyes until she sees it with her heart.

But at the end of the day, there are some questions that have no answers, and then one answer that has no question: love rules the game. Every time. All the time. That's what counts.

Our moods,' she asked. 'Are they perhaps something like thrusts—rhapsodic ones—toward stasis: self-finale?

I know that I'll move on, I tell myself I'll find me something better I'll let go and just forget her She was no good for me Deep down I know that's the way it has to be so How come I still can't open this letter I can't forget her...

At that moment I realized the true nature of hatred. It is contagious.

Be kind to everyone you meet, because we're all battling something.

I want to understand the world from your point of view. I want to know what you know in the way you know it. I want to understand the meaning of your experience, to walk in your shoes, to feel things as you feel them, to explain things as you explain them. Will you become my teacher and help me understand?

This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.

Man, you weigh a freaking ton," he told me. "What've you been eating, rocks?" "Why, is your head missing some?" I croaked. His mouth almost quirked in a smile, and that's when I knew how upset he'd been