Quotes About Emotions

Then hearing Elvis today made me think I didn't have a lot to bitch about, but when I said that to Mr. Nak after group, he said, "Don't get to thinkin' just because some other guy's sinkin' in horse manure, the stuff up around your neck is chocolate puddin'. A wound is a wound, young Brewster. Remember that. Don't diminish the pain of your own just because you see some other gut-shot cowboy bleedin' to death.

Since then I have searched for my heroes among small-t truths. I always find them among people learning the art of acceptance: not acceptance of defeat or acceptance of some inability to influence their own futures, but rather acceptance of life on the planet, acceptance of the grays rather than the black-and-whites, acceptance of the astonishing range of human emotion and human behavior.

See, Mr. Nak'll be talking about how anger comes creeping up, hoping you're not paying attention so it can trick you into something really embarrassing or degrading, and before you know it he's got you thinking about your life, or worse, talking about it. He keeps asking what seem like harmless questions, and it almost seems safe to answer them. Next thing you know you're ready to say something you thought you'd never tell anybody.

Talking with Elaine like that, with no judgment from her or anything, seemed to bring my feelings more to the surface so I could look at them. I love times like that; you don't get many of them. (Walker, in STOTAN!)

He tries to force the anger down, but it's like an anvil on his chest. He closes his eyes, like Sammy taught him, and forces the anvil up; he softens.

Lion emits a low whistle as he spots Bo entering his fifth-period Journalism class. 'What happened to your face?' Bo touches it tenderly and smiles. 'Nothing....." 'This wasn't your Dad.' Bo smiles again. 'No. My dad leaves bruises on the inside.

Don't get to thinkin' just because some other guy's sinkin' In horse manure, the stuff up around your neck is chocolate puddin'. A wound is a wound, young Brewster. Remember that. Don't diminish the pain of your own just because you see some other guy-shot cowboy bleedin' to death.

You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.

Lincoln confessed that leaving Springfield was affecting him more deeply than anyone could imagine, a sadness felt more acutely because of a stubborn premonition that he would never return alive.

Everyone in this house has been shocked by Henry's death,

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.

Every time he came back, apologetic, contrite, he'd start off being real nice. But he was as predictable as rain. No body knew when he'd go off, but at some point everybody knew he would.

A double bed can seem awfully small if your'e sharing it with someone you don't love." -Misia ? Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

A double bed can seem awfully small if your'e sharing it with someone you don't love." -Misia

yelled 'Where's my stick?

All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.

Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.

You're entertaining people whether they like you or hate you. You're entertaining their hatred. And if they like you, you're entertaining their love.

I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life.

Anyone who feels to much or radiates extremity gets very lonely.

We grasp at symbols, talismans, triggers of association to what's forever gone.