Quotes About Emotions

Here's the thing: being nice is worthless if you're just going to feel resentful about it in the end.

You have to go from being a volcano that lies dormant for years and then explodes out of the blue, decimating several villages of innocent people, to becoming a volcano that lets off a slow, steady lava flow that's truly beautiful, yet predictable enough that people can come and marvel at its beauty without getting their faces singed off.

you're treating love and success as external rewards that bring happiness, when in fact love and success are side effects of happiness.

Marriage can't always be about living your best lives in sync. Because some of the peak moments of a marriage are when you share in your insecurities, your anxieties, your fears, and your longing.

Your hatred has power because it points back to your weaknesses. Your hatred makes you feel small and helpless. Your hatred gives you a motive, an attraction, a reason to try. Your hatred fuels you. Your hatred turns you on, in other words.

Whether he was flirting with you, hiring you, or marrying you, Don Draper was just not that into you.

Sometimes you don't know you'll miss a place until you're gone.

Not my finest hour," he says, shaking his head. "You realize you did it for no reason," I say. I tell him about talking to my dad and explain that I was crying because of that. "That information would have been useful BEFORE I shoved him in the pool.

Can a girl find true love if she doesn't believe it exists?

Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day. We have a lot of catching up to do.

I didn't want to hear that people lived happily ever after. I wanted to know that other people suffered, too.

Even back then I understood the real purpose of literature. I didn't want to hear that people lived happily ever after. I wanted to know that other people suffered, too.

It's just a robot. It doesn't have feelings … yet.

Only adults weep with joy. Children don't. They haven't learned how rare moments of true happiness are.

All the objects you gifted me cannot replace your love.

Love is as enduring as your attention on your heart allows love to hold you and last from the time you forget the very word love to the time you remember how to feel it again.

Love is like a volcano hidden deep inside, at times it erupts in a magnificent happening.

You are here to learn, not to love. Although you may learn not to love, which is another thing entirely.

The woman in red was surrounded by the crowd and she was alone. It was utterly public but intensely private.

Nothing is solved. We go on and the scar tissue gets a little more pliable. It will never not be sad. It will never not hurt. It will go on being at the heart of my mother, my father, my brother, my sister and me. We are five of the millions and millions of people who walk this world carrying our grief in a knotted scarf and hoping it will not come undone.

The feelings are overwhelming, but they're not you. They're the feelings. You are separate, and you are strong and amazing and good.

I truly missed my parents. I wanted to miss them. It was the only way I could love them, a crazy cocktail of longing and pretending and absence and hope.

Before you judge another remind yourself you don't know their life history to understand why they behave as they do!

He that is jealous is not in love. —St. Augustine