Quotes About Emotions

For the pedant, dates are deities, worthy of worship, but for the true social historian, they are minutiae only, a shorthand, convenient reminders and no more. You do not ask a Titanic survivor, 'Let me see now, just exactly when was that?' You ask him this: 'What was it like? How did you feel?' And that is the job of the social historian: to make the past vibrant for the present; to emotionally involve those of us who were not there. And to make us understand.

You got these little quick passions, you blinked, and they were gone. You forgave faults, found perfection, fell madly; then the next day the sun came up and it was over. Chalk it up to experience, old girl, and get on with the morning. Buttercup stood, made her bed, changed her clothes, comber her hair, smiled, and burst out again in a fit of weeping. Because there was a limit to just how much you could lie to yourself.

Te amo. Te amo. Te abandoné en el Pantano de Fuego para poner a prueba tu amor. ¿Es tan grande como el mío por ti? ¿Acaso pueden dos amores así existir en un mismo planeta y al mismo tiempo? ¿Hay lugar para algo así, amado Westley...?

aaron would not come out aaron entered into agony.

Non ti amerò mai». «Non saprei che farmene, del tuo amore». «Va bene, allora sposiamoci».

The tears that kept Buttercup company the remainder of the day were not at all like those that had blinded her into the tree trunk. Those were noisy and hot; they pulsed. These were silent and steady and all they did was remind her that she wasn't good enough.

Se mi stai prendendo in giro, Westley, ti uccido». «Come puoi pensare che ti prenda in giro?» «Be', non hai detto nemmeno una volta che mi ami». «È solo questo che vuoi? Facile. Ti amo. Okay? Lo vuoi più forte? Ti amo. Devo sillabarlo? Ti-i-a-emme-o. Lo vuoi a rovescio? Oma it».

Your love holds you for the first time in his arms and you think, How perfect, how splendid, but then, when your love isn't your love any more, you think only, I let him touch me, how horrid, how vile.

He must be very desperate, or very frightened, or very stupid, or very brave. Very all four I should think.

Not so much wonderful as perfect, she replied. Kind of flawless. More or less magnificent. Without blemish. Rather on the ideal side. She looked at the Prince. Am I being helpful? I think emotions are clouding your objectivity just a bit.

me sería útil conocerlo un poco mejor. ¿Es de verdad tan maravilloso vuestro Westley? —Maravilloso, no; es perfecto —respondió—. Carece de defectos. Es magnífico. Sin mácula. Tirando a ideal. —Miró al príncipe y le preguntó—: ¿Os estoy ayudando? —Creo que las emociones empañan un poco vuestra objetividad.

I knew I wasn't about to bawl again. Like Buttercup's, my heart was now a secret garden and the walls were very high.

He must be very desperate, or very frightened, or very stupid, or very brave." "Very all four I should think" the Prince replied.

Every judge who has sat on a case involving a constitutional claim must have surely experienced the feeling that the particular law being challenged was either unjust or silly or vindictive. It is unfortunately all too easy to translate these visceral reactions into a determination to find some way to hold the law unconstitutional.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then a young Kennedy appointee in the Labor Department, spoke for most when he said, "I don't think there's any point in being Irish if you don't know the world is going to break your heart eventually." During those four cold, bleak November days, all Americans were Irish.

8. Show not yourself glad at the misfortune of another, though he were your enemy.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

I don't sing because I'm happy. I'm happy because I sing.

Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain

Psychology is the science of mental life