Quotes About Emotions

For he loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

She could see his reasoning. Or rather, his unreasoning. He could win all he wanted, but he knew in his heart that there was always someone who could destroy him. … "You don't understand", he said. "Yes I do." "No you don't. I don't want to beat Peter." "Then what do you want?" "I want him to love me.

I find out what I really want by seeing what I do," said Ender. "That's what we all do, if we're honest about it. We have our feelings, we make our decisions, but in the end we look back on our lives and see how sometimes we ignored our feelings, while most of our decisions were actually rationalizations because we had already decided

You only feel that way because the boy you love is not aware enough of his own feelings to make things clear to you or even to himself.

En el momento en que entiendo verdaderamente a mi enemigo, en el momento en que le entiendo lo suficientemente bien como para derrotarle, entonces, en ese preciso instante, también le quiero. Creo que es imposible entender realmente a alguien, saber lo que quere, saber lo que cree, y no amarle como se ama a sí mismo.

I thought you were my friend. Despite himself, Ender's voice trembled. Graff looked puzzled. Whatever gave you that idea, Ender? Because you— Because you spoke nicely to me, and honestly. You didn't lie.

Peter had even named it once, when he said that he could always see what other people hated most about themselves, and bully them, while Val could always see what other people liked best about themselves and flatter them. Valentine could persuade other people to her point of view - she could convince them that they wanted what she wanted them to want. Peter, on the other hand, could only make them fear what he wanted them to fear.

Yet if he lost that desire, who would he be ? What would be in his heart then, if she were gone from it ?

What does it matter, to tell yourself that the thing controlling you comes from outside, if in fact you only experience it inside your own heart? Where can you run from it? How can you hide?

If I could make my heart hard, said Alvin, I'd be a worse man, but a happier one.

She smiled and held him; her hair took the tears from his face. "Ah, Miro, I'm glad he wasn't your father. Because then I'd be your sister, and I could never hope to have you for myself.

That's what it means to be married. You fight all the time, but you never fight about what you think you're fighting about.

It was a language he had learned too late for it to come naturally to him. He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent. The

We have our feelings, we make our decisions, but in the end we look back on our lives and see how sometimes we ignored our feelings, while most of our decisions were actually rationalizations because we had already decided in our secret hearts before we ever recognized it consciously.

I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

Binecuvantati cei ce sunt binecuvantati numai de boli de boli clasificabile. Binecuvantati saracii, bolnavii, cei tradati in iubire, caci cei din jur stiu macar ce-i cu ei si le vor asculta cu simpatie vaicarelilor. Dar intelege oare suferinta exilului cel ce nu a indurat-o?

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.