Quotes About Emotions

Love seems like a capitalist plot.

What's great about love is we don't know how the other is going to respond to our openness. When love is turned into a commodity, that aspect is totally lost.

ghost44: Guess you don't think I'm Jessica Keen anymore. johnnyrotten: No. Definitely not. ghost44: What makes you so sure? johnnyrotten: Because the only time I don't get that empty feeling is when I'm messaging you.

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

Maybe they don't forget you, they just forget to remember you. I don't think people mean to forget.

Well, screw you. Screw all of you. I hope this letter is like a knife in your hearts. You ruined my life. All I've done is pay you back in kind.

The reason we get angry when someone makes fun of you is cause you doubt your ability to do something

Si hay tantas opiniones como cabezas hay igualmente tantas maneras de amar como corazones" Ana Karenina / Tolstoi

Creo -dijo Ana jugando con un guante- que si hay tantas opiniones como cabezas, también hay tantas maneras de amar como corazones

Het hinderde me dat hij zijn klaarheid en rust alweer had teruggewonnen terwijl er in mij nog zoveel ergernis was.

Je crois que s'il y a autant d'opinions que de têtes, il y a aussi autant de façons d'aimer qu'il y a de coeurs.

All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.

Every happy family is happy in the same way. Every unhappy family is unhappy in different ways.

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

Your work gets better when you let go of your anger," Harrison said. "Because anger is always didactic, and the didactic is of no value for a novelist

It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall all alone. You count on it, rely on it, buffer the passage of time. To keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

Talking about abstract things is important. Having big, wild conversations about concepts like art, music, time travel, and dreams makes it much easier when you'll eventually need to talk about things like anger, sadness, pain, and love.

As the early memory researcher Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850–1909) wrote, "Psychology has a long past, but only a short history." He meant that people have been thinking about human thought, emotion, intelligence, and behavior for thousands of years, but as a discipline based on facts rather than speculation psychology is still in its infancy. Even

We do just about anything to avoid pain and preserve a sense of self, and this compulsion often results in us creating psychological defenses.

Psychology is the science of mental life." William James

The girl's envy and jealousy were transformed into unselfishness and thoughtfulness for others. Though

This work led cognitive therapists such as Aaron Beck, David D. Burns, and Albert Ellis to build treatment around the idea that our thoughts shape our emotions, not the other way around. By changing our thinking, we can alleviate depression or simply have greater control over our behavior.

A more recent development in the cognitive field is "positive psychology," which has sought to reorient the discipline away from mental problems to the study of what makes people happy, optimistic, and productive.

This work led cognitive therapists such as Aaron Beck, David D. Burns, and Albert Ellis to build treatment around the idea that our thoughts shape our emotions, not the other way around. By