Quotes About Emotions

Thus we, as individuals, can become the victims of our own poisonous thoughts, but we cannot become the victims of the poisonous thoughts of another.

if I could have caught up from the earth, the whole of the flowers of the earth, if once I could have breathed into myself the very golden crocuses and the red, and the very golden hearts of the first saffron, the whole of the golden mass, the whole of the great fragrance, I could have dared the loss. — H.D., from "Eurydice," Collected Poems 1912-1944 (New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1982)

No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.

Negative feelings about the past bring negativity to the present

Our reaction to others does not define them, it defines us

Resistance increases stress, but acceptance decreases stress

The more we care, the greater the pain, and the greater the need for understanding

Thoughts and emotions replace reality with illusion. Both are subject to exposure by truth

Unhappiness is directly proportional to our denial of reality

Watch thoughts and emotions rather than be thoughts and emotions

We create blocks by hanging on to negative energy

We either manage our thoughts & emotions or they manage us

Without answering, he pulled the comforter over his head. If only he could sleep a few days in a row. He felt sorry for himself and sick of everything.

If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.

Perhaps by mingling my sighs with yours I may make your sufferings less, for it is said that all sorrows divided are made lighter.

I am convinced by a sad experience that it is natural to avoid those to whom we have been too much obliged, and that uncommon generosity causes neglect rather than gratitude.

Riches and pomp are not the charm of love. True tenderness makes us separate the love from all that is external to him, and setting aside his position, fortune and employments, consider him merely as himself.

Never let a boy know you're crazy about him. He'll lose interest, and then you'll be a loser.

Jamie knew now that were certain things you had to let go. But that didn't mean they ever had to leave you.

The family she knew -- the life she knew -- officially was no more." Summer Girls, Page 192 by

Children become frustrated and resentful when they view their parents as not being interested "in how they feel and in their point of view.

Like a trained surgeon who is careful where he cuts, parents, too, need to become skilled in the use of words. Because words are like knives. They can inflict, if not physical, many painful emotional wounds.

It is a deep comfort to children to discover that their feelings are a normal part of the human experience. There is no better way to convey that than to understand them. When

Empathy, a parent's ability to understand what a child is feeling, is an important and valuable ingredient of child rearing.