Quotes About Emotions

You are the slave of your mind!

You boast of what you already have yet feel insecure and jealous when you find in same in others. That's how fragile you're, Grow Up!

You boast what you already have yet feel insecure and jealous when you find the same in others. That's how fragile you're, Grow Up!

Your audience change according to your performance, while your performance varies according to your mood! So regret not, go with the flow.

I think it's all that's holding me together," Kade said. "Then perhaps you should fall apart," Ananda replied.

When you suffer, Ananda had told him, When you rage. When you weep. When you crave. That is when you must still your mind.

You will not be punished for your anger, Buddha had said. You will be punished by your anger.

Sabía que ella veía las estrellas porque yo las veía reflejadas en sus ojos.

We always hurt what we love most

Grief, especially when it's still raw, is like having a thirst that no amount of water quenches. It can't be consoled; it can't be alleviated. It's unrelenting and constant. I wish I could tell her that it will get easier with time. But if I told her that I'd also have to tell her that easier doesn't mean it ever goes away.

Maybe you only get one chance at meeting somebody who really gets inside you, wakes corners of your mind and heart that you didn't know were asleep.

But I identify myself, as always,With something that there's something wrong with,With something human.

The ghosts of my heart strolled in.

When a divorce is initiated, regardless of who files with the court, blamers particularly feel threatened. Many cannot handle seeming in any way responsible for the divorce, which triggers their lifelong fears of abandonment and inferiority. Therefore, they split their partner into all bad. It feels like a war between good and evil to blamers, so they create one. Their extreme feelings create their own problems.

Psychiatrists are supposed to help their patients get in touch with things they are trying to avoid.

Like fever and pain, anxiety and low mood are useful normal responses to some situations.

First, the rest of medicine recognizes symptoms, such as pain and cough, as protective defenses and carefully distinguishes them from the disorders that arouse them. In psychiatry, by contrast, extremes of emotions, such as anxiety and low mood, are categorized as disorders, irrespective of any situation that might be arousing them. This error is so basic and pervasive that it deserves a name: Viewing Symptoms As Diseases (VSAD).

Just as the capacity for experiencing fatigue has evolved to protect us from overexertion, the capacity for sadness may have evolved to prevent additional losses. Maladaptive extremes of anxiety, sadness, and other emotions make more sense when we understand their evolutionary origins and normal, adaptive functions.

Emotional capacities are shaped by situations that occurred repeatedly in the course of evolution and that were important to fitness. Attacks by predators, threats of exclusion from the group, and opportunities for mating were frequent and important enough to have shaped special patterns of preparedness, such as panic, social fear, and sexual arousal. Situations that are best avoided shape aversive emotions, while situations that involve opportunity shape positive emotions.

People are not controlled by some internal calculator that crudely motivates them to maximize their reproductive success. Instead, people form deep, lifelong emotional attachments and experience loves and hates that shape their lives. They have religious beliefs that guide their behavior, and they have idiosyncratic goals and ambitions. They have networks of friends and relatives.

The separation of lovers delights the heart of the biographer.

To keep one's reactions warm and true, is to have found the secret of perpetual youth, and perpetual youth is salvation.

I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.

Readers don't want to read about somebody else having powerful emotions. . . . Readers want to become somebody else for a few hours, to live an exciting life, to find true love, to face down unimaginable terrors, to solve impossible puzzles, to feel a lightning jolt of adrenaline.