Quotes About Emotions

She cuts herself. Never too deep, never enough to die. But enough to feel the pain. Enough to feel the scream inside.

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.

Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent?

When you loathe yourself, a true friend will respect your honesty. And if youve been fortunate in life, he will probably share your opinion.

You can find love if you search within yourself.

Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.

To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.

Self pity is most destructive & self punishable emotion.Self pity gets you no where. It makes victim of being away from reality. One must have courage to accept oneself with pride & strive to present best of himself.

Negative emotions, such as the feelings of hatred, meanness, low self-esteem and confidence, and pessimism, create an unpleasant person and a bleak destiny.

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.

Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself.

To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike.

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

What I've learned is that preaching at someone is a one-way convo leaving one side feeling self righteous & the other side misunderstood.

You've got to let people be just, you know, people. Everyone does bad things sometimes, for all sorts of reasons. You've got to at least understand.

Self-sabotage is an art only the most neurotic can master.

Every waking moments we talk to ourselves about the things we experience. Our self-talk, the thoughts we communicate to ourselves, in turn control the way we feel and act.

We all have voices in our heads which talks to us on an almost constant basis. Our voices give us messages continually, and what they say to us affects us.

He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.

The only way that you can ever know if something is of value to you is by the way it feels as you are receiving it.