Quotes About Emotions

Emotions are like waves rising on the ocean of the ind. Waves are part of the ocean, but not the ocean itself. Even an ocean whose surface is wracked by fierce wind and rain contains great calm in its depth. In the same way, a deep,bright seat of the mind lies beyond our stormy emotions.

If our minds are like a garden, then emotions are like the different flowers that bloom and wither in it all year round, according to the season. Emotions sometimes bring dynamism and significant change to our lives, but we must never be led around by them.

The important thing is to be honest with yourself and to have the will and the determination.I am the master of my emotions and my memories. All you have to do is to make up your mind firmly to leave those things behind.

when jay laughed his soul bird laughed with him. when jay rejoiced his soul bird rejoiced too

The things we are attached to are no more than shadows of the past. However, we do not recognize that, and as long as we hold onto them, they become a part of the present and follow us around

El dolor y la ira, como muchos otros sentimientos, no se olvidan, solo se arrinconan, y renacen con tanto o más vigor con una simple chispa capaz de prenderlos de nuevo.

Todo se olvida, muchacha. Olvidamos hasta la muerte de nuestros seres queridos, que es la mayor desgracia que puede acaecernos.

Tanto le cegaba a uno la felicidad como para no percatarse del dolor ajeno?

Why can't you like me?" he said, his voice breaking. His scent steamed then, hot and heady with a welter of contradictions: apples and fire and electric roil of those cold, black shadows. "Why can't you like me just a little?" She would never know how she might have answered, because he never gave her the chance. Instead, he kissed her.

It was that stages-of-anger thing. I was shocked and then I got pissed and then I fought like hell … and then I went numb. They called it acceptance, but it wasn't. It's what happens when you have only two choices: live with the monster, or kill yourself.

Not everyone wears their scars on their skin.

I´d never heard a man cry before, Bob, but...it´s awful. (...) I think some man aren´t used to it and don´t know what to do with all that feeling. Their emotions are hexane ignited in their chests and rips them apart, and then they feel like they´re going to die-just as something was dying, at that moment in Mitch.

I gargled a laugh, but I'd never felt more like crying in my life. "I'm fine.

Thinking about all that was exhausting. Despite the hours I'd spent getting shrink-wrapped, I still wasn't sold that talking did a whole heck of a lot except let everyone else know what was going on inside your head. It's not like talking ever made anything go away.

Sometimes when you're sad, it's easier to be angry.

The old man stroked a finger over a wooden charm hung around [redacted]'s chest on a leather cord. -{redacted] believed it would protect you. Whether it did is immaterial. It was something [redacted] could give, and in return, that gave [redacted] courage. It gave [redacted] faith. But all emotions are chemically mediated and may be manipulated. Every drunk, every lover, any ecstatic mystic knows that. There is no heart without the head.-

Most looked happy. I thought. Hard to tell, actually. What can you tell from a face?

We spend 87 percent of our lives inside buildings, how they are designed really affects how we feel, how we behave

A pity we hadn't had time to say all the things we wanted to each other.

I left with a heavy heart and a still heavier suitcase--I had filled it with my favourite books.

Life seemed too calm; people looked for unhappiness in art as one might look for a raw material in short supply.

But in the secret history of anger--one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others.

There are two kinds of obscurity; one arises from a lack of feelings and thoughts, which have been replaced by words; the other from an abundance of feelings and thoughts, and the inadequacy of words to express them.

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.