Quotes About Emotions

Clara, I feel so full of work, the life I see ahead, and love for you, who of all people however badly I say this will hear all I say and cannot say.

how can I go on this mission without you you, who might have told me everything you feel is true?

If to feel is to be unreliable don't listen to us if to be in pain is to be predictable embittered bullying then don't listen to us If we're in danger of mistaking our personal trouble for the pain on the streets don't listen to us

I feel more helpless with you than without you.

There is no greater pleasure than winning a competition with one's sister and no greater sorrow than to see her suffer because of it.

When we believe what we think, when we take our thinking to be reality, we will suffer.

By identifying with a particular name that belongs to a particular body and mind, the self begins the process of creating a separate identity. Add in a complex jumble of ideas, beliefs, and opinions, along with some selective and often painful memories with which to create a past to identify with, as well as the raw emotional energy to hold it all together, and before you know it, you've got a very convincing - though divided - self.

When these Velcro thoughts and emotions arise, the key is to face and investigate whatever belief structures underlie them. In that moment, inquiry is your spiritual practice. To avoid this practice is to avoid your own awakening. Anything you avoid in life will come back, over and over again, until you're willing to face it—to look deeply into its true nature.

But what is it? What is it like to experience blame? By questioning, "What is this?" consciousness is allowed to get inside of it. So you see, there might be blame, but now it is blame that's conscious. If you try to do something with the blame, such as get rid of it, then you are not really with it.

Thinking is something and then feeling it are two different reference points for most human beings: If I think it and I feel it, then it is real. But it does not take much reflection to acknowledge we have all thought and felt things to be true that later found out were not.

Give heed, give heed and give your sympathy To one who suffers; sorrow roaming wide Impartial stops and stays awhile with me, To tarry later seated close by thee.

There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most

The wise man will love; all others will desire.

The teeth are smiling, but is the heart?

2. They were endowed abundantly with the natural gifts of intellect and foresight, and with the faculties of the arts, sciences and culture. " 'Hearing and seeing' refer to the experimental faculties. And the word 'heart' in Arabic includes intellect, or the rational faculties as well as the instruments of feeling and emotion, the aesthetic faculties."144

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.

A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.