Quotes About Emotions

Spinoza dit qu'il ne se peut pas que l'homme n'ait pas de passions, mais que le sage forme en son âme une telle étendue de pensées heureuses que ses passions sont toutes petites à côté.

nous n'avons aucune puissance sur les passions tant que nous n'en connaissons pas les vraies causes

En réalité, les motifs qu'on a d'être heureux ou malheureux sont sans poids; tout dépend de notre corps.

La profonde tristesse résulte toujours d'un état maladif du corps.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.

It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.

Starting with a gray cloud of brain cells that was subject to storms and flash floods, I had to learn to make my own internal weather.

When you're with someone, try labeling … is Jack upset? Is Jane excited? … It'll change how you hear what they're saying.

Raquel Welch, whom I've met but never kissed, once called the brain an erogenous zone.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six.

I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did

Music, more than money, is the tonic of happiness. Music helps to create moments and social occasions, memories and emotions. This is the secret of music, and it is the reason that, as Neil Young famously sang, "rock and roll will never die.

Janie's a pretty typical teenager — angry, insecure, confused. I wish I could tell her that's all going to pass, but I don't want to lie to her.

Write what you care about, write what moves you, what intrigues you and you find compelling, write what angers you and makes you sad.

I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me, but it's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much; my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold onto it. And then it flows through me like rain, and I can't feel anything but gratitude—for every single moment of my stupid, little life.

He is interested in the feelings of the squash ball, and of the champagne bottle that launches the ship. In a football match his sympathy is not with either of the teams but with the ball, or, in a match ending nil-nil, with the hunger of the goalmouth.

Tutto nasce dalla paura. Molte battaglie non vengono vinte dalla sola capacità di battersi, ma dal controllo degli istinti degli uomini.

Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one.

Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.