Quotes About Emotions

When we are in fear, there is no room for love, and when we are lin love, there is no room for fear.

But there's no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs.

Instead of hating yourself, develop positive feelings. Learn from the error, and resolve not to repeat it but don't associate it with your self-worth.

Happy thoughts create happy molecules, and healthy thoughts create healthy molecules.

You cannot have a feeling without first having a thought. Your behavior is based upon your feelings, which are based upon your thoughts. So the thing to work on is not to change your behavior, but those things inside of your consciousness that we call thoughts. Once your thoughts reflect what you genuinely want to be, the appropriate emotions and the consequent behavior will flow automatically. Believe it, and you will see it!

Bad thoughts zap your energy. Happy thoughts make you strong and free. It's a choice you make each day, so choose to be happy—that's the way!

no one can make us upset without our consent

Fear itself does not exist in the world. There are only fearful thoughts and avoidance behaviors.

Lembre-se que o que incomoda você não é o que as outras pessoas fazem, e sim sua reação a isso. Em vez de dizer Eles deviam fazer isso, diga: Queria saber por que me incomodo com o que eles estão fazendo.

You can never predict how someone you love will react to another human being, but if they choose to be affectionate or loving you can only experience the immobility of jealousy if you see their decisions as having anything to do with you. That is your choice. If a partner loves another, he isn't being "unfair," he is simply being. If you label it unfair, you'll probably

My book is developing into a guide for cutting through a lifetime of emotional red tape. I've written it not because of my advanced educational training, but more in spite of it.

Every single problem that you have in your life, you experience in your mind.

Permit the paradox of wanting the irritant to vanish and allowing it to be what it is. Look inward for it in your thoughts and allow yourself to feel it wherever it is and however it moves in your body.

Feelings are not just emotions that happen to you. Feelings are reactions you choose to have. If you are in charge of your own emotions, you don't have to choose self-defeating reactions.

The backdrop for virtually all neurosis is making others' behavior more significant than your own.

there's no such thing as stress; there are only people thinking stressful thoughts.

Begin to view your emotional life as independent of whatever anyone else does. This will free you from the chains of being hurt when others behave differently from the way you want them to.

Even if you are deliberately avoiding dominant people (parent, spouse, boss, child), you are still being controlled by them in their absence if you are experiencing emotional immobilization because of them.

Recognize your desire for privacy and not having to share everything you feel and experience with someone. You are unique and private. If you feel you must share everything then you are without choice, and of course, a dependent.

Resentment is like venom that continues to pour through your system, doing its poisonous damage long after being bitten by the snake. It's not the bite that kills you; it's the venom.

Keep in mind that you have no responsibility to make others happy. Others make themselves happy. Thus, you may truly enjoy the company of another, but if you feel it is your mission to make them happy, then you are a dependent who will also feel gloom when the other person is down. Or even worse, you'll feel as though you let him down. You are responsible for your own emotions and so is everyone else. No one has control over your feelings, except you.

Don't try to delude yourself into believing that you enjoy something that you find distasteful. You can dislike something and still not have to be angry about it.

Get rid of the expectations you have for others. When the expectations go away, so will the anger.

Giving love to others is directly related to how much love you have for yourself.