Quotes About Emotions

Maman told me that every time you smile, a very tiny bit of the smile stays stuck to your face, so as you get older and older your face starts to show all the tiny bits of all your smiles and you look like you are smiling all the time, even when you are just thinking about what to have for breakfast. She said, also, that if you frown a lot then the frowns stick to your face instead. That way when you are old you have a very frowny face and look cross all the time and people are scared of you.

People can have nothing but good intentions and still sometimes make you want to kill them.

He's never shown the slightest interest in you before. I mean, he's never stared at you like you're the only person in the room when we're al together. Or sulked around for days because you turned him down for a dance. Or touched the sleeve of your sweater when he thinks no one's looking -

Emma hung up and hugged her pillow tight to her chest. He shouldn't be making her feel this special and desired. He was just a friend. Right, just a friend. She wasn't even fooling herself anymore.

But to be furious, murderously furious, is to be alive. No longer young, no longer pretty, no longer loved, or sweet, or lovable, unmasked, writhing on the ground for all to see in my utter ingloriousness, there's no telling what I might do

Just because something is invisible doesn't mean it isn't there. At any given time, there are a host of invisibles floating among us. There are clairvoyants to see ghosts; but who sees the invisible emotions, the unrecorded events? Who is that sees love, more evanescent than any ghost, let alone can catch it? Who are you tell me that I don't know what love is?

So you want to fall in love? You probably will soon, and if you do, enjoy it, it's harder later on.

The gag stifles all screams and eliminates all but the most violent moans, while allowing tears to flow without constraint. There was no question of using it that night. On the contrary, they wanted to hear her scream." She'd

He saw the world more vividly than other people, and reacted to what he saw with laughter, horror, indignation, and sometimes sobs.

The most striking aspect of Jane's adult letters is their defensiveness. They lack tenderness towards herself as much as towards others ... They are the letters of someone who does not open her heart'. They are also, perhaps, the letters of someone who doesn't dare open her heart, for fear of what she might find there.

The great majority of my nervously ill patients have been made ill and kept ill because of the way they feel; because of fear of what they think may happen next.

In other words, long, anxious brooding on any difficult life situation may gradually bring sensitization.

When a person is constantly sensitized and afraid of the state he is in, we say he is nervously ill.

You who are suffering and read this, turn your attention to the way you think, not to your feelings. Come to terms with your attitude, and your feelings will look after themselves.

Claire: One of the hallmarks of a mother-daughter relationship is what I call the Zero to Sixty Factor. We can get instantly irritated at each other and just as instantly move on… Men don't get this. Paul will say, "Girls, stop fussing," and we'll immediately turn and say in unison, "We're not arguing.

Love is the strongest feeling a person can feel and to have the one you love, love you back is the greatest gift you could ever receive.

Only with a clear mind will you be able to see who is truly in your heart.

However if you wish unhappiness on someone else then the very strength of that wish will make you unhappy.

To get mad at being called a "little boy" is a proof that you indeed are one

All happiness and all unhappiness ... stems from one having a desire. And that is why mankind will always make their wishes.

If one wishes for revenge, before you know it, a hurt as bad as the one wished for will come upon the wisher.

So much of our pain is rooted in the responses of other people, or rather, in our perceptions of what those responses are or (even more painful) what they may be.

Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

Most of us women like men, you know it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.