Quotes About Emotions

They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.

It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do.

He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be. The distinction was important.

One of the most characteristic Italian emotions, it seems to me, is that mixture of envy, perplexity and wonder that comes when one realises that others are working the system far more effectively than oneself - said com'è? - this together with the knowledge that they are doing so and will continue to do so with absolute impunity. Until it dawns on you that the system was invented in order to be worked in this way.

Quando nasce un amore non si è mai a corto di argomenti.

Under," he said in a shaky voice, "normal circumstances, I'd certainly be in love with you." "Nobody falls in love under normal circumstances," she said softly, rubbing his finger with her warm thumb. He restrained an impulse to look to see if there was still ink on it. "Love isn't in the category of normal things. Not any worthwhile kind of love, anyway.

There's no use arguing with someone's subjective experience,

Marla cursed--though her profanities we less destructive than Rondeau's, they were more heartfelt.

Don't cry for me, Argentina.

The fastest way to tumble out of the Zone is to allow emotions to drive your actions.

A Cleaner thinks, If I'm feeling nervous, how the fuck are they feeling? They have to deal with me.

Fear shows up on its own. Doubt has to be invited. Fear heightens your awareness; it makes you alert. Doubt is the opposite; it slows you down and paralyzes your thinking.

Control your thoughts, and you control your emotions. Control your emotions, and you control your actions. Control your actions, and you control the outcome.

Snip off the little worries and expressions of worry" like little branches atop a tall tree.28 If you are truly worried, sharing your concerns with others is like sharing a cold to help yourself feel better. You don't feel better; you just make someone else feel worse.

Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.

Depression is like a headache or true love or any of those indefinable concepts. If you've never been there, you don't know what it's like until you're too far in to stop the process.

What makes people between the ages of eleven and fifteen such mean jerks? I'd rather be ninety-five than thirteen again.

Do you believe love is a chemical reaction between two people?" "At first it is. Then, theoretically, it grows into something more. Or dies.

The course of my life had been in doubt for so long that I always had to assess my emotions. This was new. It felt real, mature, and I didn't want to let it dissolve into juvenile memories as the others had. Damn! Kara made me feel like a man! That was what I'd been looking for!

See, this is the other side of the coin. This is a girl's downfall. The guy goes soft in the head and starts talking to her like a moron and she wants to take care of him. He's just cuddly fool who can't make it without her.

Cassidy brings something beautiful to me from the outside. Aimee brings something beautiful up from the depths of my insides. "I can't dance like Cassidy," she says. "Yeah, but you dance like Aimee. And that's perfect.

There's no room inside for feeling any worse

And then there are the ex-girlfriends. They look incredible, every one of them.

No,' I say l. 'It's not all right. But I couldn't help it