Quotes About Emotions

I no longer hold you responsible for how I feel.

Those who would make us feel must feel themselves.

Our attitudes cannot stop our feelings, but they can keep our feelings from stopping us.

I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you might not write savage lyrics.

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons.

Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes.

Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio describes emotions as the "continuous musical line of our minds, the unstoppable humming."3

To empathize with these patients, to put yourself in their shoes, may be a bit too existentially disconcerting. And so doctors unconsciously try to protect themselves by widening the moat between their own good health and their patients' dauntingly mortal conditions

Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio describes emotions as the continuous musical line of our minds, the unstoppable humming. This basso continuo thrums along while doctors make a steady stream of conscious medical decisions.

Empathy requires being attuned to the patient's perspective and understanding how the illness is woven into this particular persons' life. Last--and this is where doctors often stumble--empathy requires being able to communicate all of this to the patient.

In general, empathy is easier the more we can identify with someone. When we can genuinely envision ourselves in a situation, it's possible to intuit what that person's suffering might feel like.

And the worst thing she had heard were the words he hadn't said, the fact that he hadn't loved her.

When you can bring yourself to write about it one day, you will find it all less painful. It is a catharsis of sorts, but the process can be brutal. Don't do it until you're ready.

We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us.

Feelings aren't sensible. always," her mother said gently. "Feelings aren't sensible. Sometimes you fall in love with people who don't make sense. And the ones who do make sense turn out to be the wrong ones

The judge arrived half an hour later with the file he had collected from his office on the way, signed several papers, had Sam sign them, the matron witness them; Josh cried, Norm cried, she cried, the judge grinned, and Timmie waved his teddy bear at the judge with a broad grin as they wheeled into the elevator. So long! he shouted, and when the doors closed, the judge was laughing and crying too.

His smiles were hard won, but when they came, they were well worth it. They lit up his face like summer sunshine. The rest of the time, and far more frequently, he seemed lost in winter. And when he laughed, he was a different person.

up and walked slowly to the mirror, and then she stood there with a broad smile, and a narrow river of tears gleaming on her face. He stood behind her, at a good distance. He wanted to leave her alone. This was her moment. "Oh God, Peter, it's beautiful." He laughed softly. "Not 'it's' beautiful, silly girl. You're beautiful. It is you

The only lie I ever told you is that I liked you when I already knew I loved you.

followed her outside, deeply moved.

But they both knew that you could never run far enough or fast enough to get away from the pain completely. It was always waiting nearby

Every day, good stuff and bad stuff happens to us. It's what

The world goes on. People are born, and die, and others are born after them. It is only our own sadness that is so painful.