Quotes About Emotions

There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.

A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

her eyes downcast all the while/ and singing to herself

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

Empathy involves at least emotional sensitivity to others and at most an ability to understand another's point of view.

To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.

Children don't say, "I had a hard day at school today; can I talk to you about it?" They say, "Will you play with me?

Plus, we adults have unhealed hurts from our own childhoods, which sometimes get in the way right when our children need our support. Our own piles of old feelings interfere with parenting playfully. In turn, that makes it hard to help children with their emotional difficulties

Using Playful Parenting, we can help children release all this emotion in ways that aren't hurtful to others. We do this by just spending lots of time giggling together, but also with some specific techniques. To help children with fears, for example, it often helps to play as if you are the one who is scared, and really exaggerate it. Make sure they don't feel mocked or humiliated. It helps if you don't imitate them exactly, but just take the general idea and exaggerate it.

Feelings aren't supposed to be rational. If we stop judging fears as invalid, we can find a deeper empathy.

I drove home in a State of Utter: utterly startled, utterly confused, utterly flummoxed.

It was such a whole-hearted expression of pure joy: her eyes squinched shut, her mouth open, shoulders shaking, and a surprisingly full, deep guffaw that was neither feminine nor masculine but sexless and primitive as all genuine laughter.

There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.

Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.

It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.

There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.

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I don't know how time moves or which of our sorrows or our desires it is able to wash away.

The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.

Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.

Good mornin', blues, blues how do you do?Good mornin', blues, blues how do you do?I'm doin' all right, good mornin', how are you?

Every sad thing, every loss or hurt really a challenge to love that much more, really just another of beauty's many strongholds.

We are at the mercy of our own narrative impulses.