Quotes About Emotions

Pushing aside emotions only makes them stronger.

emotional sobriety"—the ability to regulate one's feelings without self-medicating, whether that medication comes in the form of substances, defenses, affairs, or the internet.

You seem depressed," she said with concern. I said I wasn't depressed; I was just bored. I hadn't considered that if the only thing that keeps you going all day is knowing you'll get to turn on the TV after dinner, you probably are depressed.

You can have compassion without forgiving. There are many ways to move on and pretending to feel a certain way isn't one of them.

They wish they could stay longer but don't know how to say this directly. Acknowledging their attachment makes them feel too vulnerable.

Una revisión de la literatura relevante demuestra que la felicidad es estadísticamente anormal,

I'm mindful of the fact that Very Angry People aren't Very Approachable.

In fact, Wendell continues, I've lost more than my relationship in the present. I've lost my relationship in the future. We tend to think that the future happens later, but we're creating it in our minds every day. When the present falls apart, so does the future we had associated with it. And having the future taken away is the mother of all plot twists. But if we spend the present trying to fix the past or control the future, we remain stuck in place, in perpetual regret.

underneath the old mother-daughter frustration was not a wish for her to go away but a longing for her to stay forever?

Cuando caes en la compasión del idiota, evitas agitar las aguas para no lastimar a otra persona, aunque las aguas necesiten ser agitadas y tu compasión acabe resultando más perjudicial que tu sinceridad.

This was grief: You laugh. You cry. Repeat.

Maybe you can let yourself cry too.

Apparently, you can make people happy by delivering bad news and then taking it back (which, personally, would just make me mad). Still,

Often people talk about suicide not because they want to be dead but because they want to end their pain.

People often mistake numbness for nothingness, but numbness isn't the absence of feelings; it's a response to being overwhelmed by too many feelings. John looks from his cell back to me. "You know what I love about Rosie?" he says. "She's the only one who doesn't ask things of me. The only one who isn't, in one way or another, disappointed with me—

You're going to have to feel pain—everyone feels pain at times—but you don't have to suffer so much.

You're not choosing the pain, but you're choosing the suffering

Therapists talk a lot about how the past informs the present—how our histories affect the ways we think, feel, and behave and how at some point in our lives, we have to let go of the fantasy of creating a better past. If we don't accept the notion that there's no redo, much as we try to get our parents or siblings or partners to fix what happened years ago, our pasts will keep us stuck.

hadn't considered that if the only thing that keeps you going all day is knowing you'll get to turn on the TV after dinner, you probably are depressed.

I can't walk away from someone I love without saying 'I love you' one last time. I've known how very much I've loved you for a long time. You think I'm a child and I know nothing about the world or about love. But I know about love. I know about loss. And I know about loneliness, and goodbyes, and about never being able to voice those feelings again. "Perhaps you've said those words, Richard, and don't mean them. But I never have.

We do not want to comprehend that people may and do die of emotional pain, or to recognize the terror in ourselves when we cannot seem to help someone in despair -- when our words are empty.

We have no control over what haunts us. We're helpless to it.

Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated.

Although many of us may think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think