Quotes About Emotions

Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.

High cognitive friction polarizes people into two groups. It either makes them feel frustrated and stupid for failing, or giddy with power at overcoming the extreme difficulty. These powerful emotions force people into being either an "apologist" or a "survivor." They either adopt cognitive friction as a lifestyle, or they go underground and accept it as a necessary evil. The polarization is growing acute.

I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

I really wanted to show that it wasn't all bad in my family. I tried so hard to think of happy times we all had together, times when we had fun, when we laughed. In the interests of balance, I even wanted to be able to describe some instances of kindness and tenderness involving us all. But I just couldn't. I

the best way to heal it is to admit it will always be there.

I have come to realise that no one sees the world quite the way you do. Even with a great deal of shared experience there is always a shift of a few degrees in perspective, and no one's pain is ever the same as yours.

If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.

The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who'd been dieting for six months, only to discover she'd gained four pounds.

That which is beautiful is magnified by being shared with others.That which is painful is often moderated by being shared. Both are logical. -Spock

When you are a happy person, you'll influence others to behave positively toward you.

Oh, drop dead, you miserable cow.

How do you explain to someone else why a thing matters to you if it doesn't matter to them? How can you put into words how a book slips inside of you and becomes a part of you so much that your life feels empty without it?

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.

There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely never had

On the stairs he was crying so much he hardly saw where he was going - not a mad boo-hoo but wailing sheets of tears, shaken into funny groans by the bump of each step as he hurried down.

He somehow saw that to her being drunk had its whole long sentimental history, whereas to him it was a freakish novelty.

when we do not know, or when we do not know enough, we tend always to substitute emotions for thoughts."*5

Good thing I'm driving or I'd kick you in the balls. Oh, wait, we're in England. I'd kick you in the bollocks.

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

For fear of seeming sentimental, many of us hold back expressions of warmth and thereby miss out on rich and profound friendships.

Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor...I am Pagliacci.

Patience is about responsibility—for your emotional response to situations, and for the situations themselves. Wait—and be saved like a bird from a snare; Hurry, and usher your soul to despair. —YOSEF QIMHI (C. 1160–1235)

A PERSON WHO has gained peace of mind has gained everything. To obtain peace of mind, you need to be at peace with the people in your environment. You need to be at peace with yourself, with your emotions and desires. Furthermore, you need to be at peace with your Creator. —RABBI SHLOMO WOLBE (1914–2005)

ANGER IS A DESTRUCTIVE soul-trait. Just as scurvy is a disease of the body, so is anger a disease of the soul. —ORCHOT TZADDIKIM (1540)