Quotes About Emotions

Tears are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of compassion.

Happiness has its source in positive feelings, while joy has its source in Jesus.

A tearless heart is a callous heart.

Nathan speaks suddenly, with violence, against Roy's shoulder. "I like you a whole lot. I really do. And I want you to like me the same way." "I do," he says.

the mind has deep rivers of memory and sensation whose existence one never suspects.

Isabel saw all their lives becoming history in units of days and nights so fatally private there was no one left for her to love.

I don't want to get married or run away. I want my free will. I just want to love someone and not get fucked over.

In fact he was as lovesick as a high schooler of an especially sensitive sort who wonders if he dare share a poem with his beloved or whether she will laugh at him. He does read her the poem and her feminine capacity for romanticism for a moment approaches his own and they are suffused in a love trance, a state that so ineluctably peels back the senses making them fresh again whatever ages the lovers might be.

No one gets over anything.

children, those lucky ones to whom clocks are of no consequence but who drift along on the true emotional content of time.

A mood can be a mud puddle to be jumped over.

I lean against the rail and think there much be such a thing as beautiful anxiety.

language was a convenience of the heart, not something to bludgeon people with.

We can also learn to develop a new capacity for seeing the nervous water of an emotional process (a coach or a guide like Kenny is helpful). It requires some new categories for thinking; it means practicing some new disciplines and skills. It entails change in how we relate to others, and it demands time and patience. But leadership in the kingdom of God is worth the effort.

I hate myself pretty often .She tilted her face back on the pillow, damning tears and attempting so smile at the same time. Pretty fucking often

Something had snapped between us, and I had no idea how to glue it back together.

It surprised me to want her [my mother] the most, but I'd never been miserable without her.

I'll never wake up in a good mood again. I'm tired of these stinky boots

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them.

Love is a dream. Dreams are good, but do not be surprised if you wake up in tears.

To have just been born for beauty & see sadness What is this frail sickness?

He could be breaking apart inside and you'd never know it from the way he acted. He'd be just as pleasant and polite as if he didn't have a care in the world. You had to be careful with someone like that. You could never know what he was thinking.

I knew–though I didn't recognize the fact–that I wasn't all right.