Quotes About Emotions

Mira, I wanna tell you something. I ain't got time to tell you what I should've when I had time, but I dig you a whole lot. Deeg you? she asked, puzzled. I explained to her what it meant and told her that I would write it to her in Spanish and say it like it was.

It's not at all uncommon to find a person's desires compelling him to go against his reason, and to see him cursing himself and venting his passion on the source of the compulsion within him. It's as if there were two warring factions, with passion fighting on the side of reason. But I'm sure you won't claim that you had ever, in yourself or in anyone else, met a case of passion siding with his desires against the rational mind, when the rational mind prohibits resistance.

as a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it issued, so the stream of beauty passes back into its possessor through his eyes, which is its natural route to the soul; arriving there and setting him all aflutter, it waters the passages of the feathers and causes the wings to grow, and fills the soul of the loved one in his turn with love.

Caring about the happiness of others, we find our own.

The perfect state is one where men weep and rejoice over the same things.

How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, How does love suit with age, Sophocles,—are you still the man you were? Peace, he replied; most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master.

E não é que é só no corpo, mas também na alma os modos, os costumes, as opiniões, desejos, prazeres, aflições, temores, cada um desses afetos jamais permanece o mesmo em cada um de nós, mas uns nascem, outros morrem.

El miedo es siempre compañero de la vergüenza.

He who is the victim of his passions and the slave of pleasure will of course desire to make his beloved as agreeable to himself as possible.

Y lo que nos lleva al recuerdo de la desgracia y a las lamentaciones, sin saciarse nunca de ellas, ¿no diremos que es irracional y perezoso y allegado de la cobardía.

There are two things a person should never be angry at: what they can help, and what they cannot.

el placer y el dolor no se encuentran nunca a un mismo tiempo; y sin embargo, cuando se experimenta el uno, es preciso aceptar el otro, como

un hombre valiente, que sepa combatir sus pasiones, sea resistiéndolas a pie firme, sea huyendo de ellas, porque el valor, Laques, se extiende a todas estas cosas.

Crees con formalidad que entre los dioses hay guerras, odios, combates y todas las demás pasiones tan sorprendentes que los poetas y pintores nos representan en sus poesías y en sus cuadros

In one study, Cummings found that children's emotional well-being and security are more affected by the relationship between the parents than by the direct relationship between the parent and child.

It bears repeating: the mental states needed to compete are not always socially palatable.

T)he only really interesting thing about someone that makes you want to explore them further is their heart

I think part of her feared that if Mother could leave her that way, she must be unlovable. And of course, she wasn't.

You can be sunk low or as a skunk and still have a joy in your heart. Joy lives like one of those spinning things---a gyroscope in your heart. It doesn't seem to have any connection to circumstance, good or bad.

Ah, relationships. If he was lucky, Luke thought, he would never have another one.

Rosalie lay awake late at night, alone in her unwomaned bed

Why does it happen? Why is the pain of every day translated so constantly into our dreams, in the ever-repeated scene of the unlistened-to story?

Fear is supremely contagious, and its immediate reaction is to make one try to run away.

Pensavo molte cose insensate, e non pensavo alcune cose tristemente sensate.