Quotes About Emotions

Memories mean more to me than dresses.

Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.

I can tell you I love you as many times as you can stand to hear it, but all it does is remind us that love is not enough. Not even close.

If the children acquiesce, they may learn to suppress their anger to avoid retribution. But the rage remains inside, often just below the surface.

youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

It doesn't bother me at all. Do I hold any hard feelings? Not at all, ... Life is too short to sit around and hold grudges. I don't hold any whatsoever.

The muse is blind as Cupid and skittish as Diana.

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.

You can never be truly happy in a life unless you have known a sorrow. All terrible things we have gone through in life have created spaces inside us where happiness can live Not to mention love.

... sometimes in life, you either laugh or you cry. And I prefer to laugh.

Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.

The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.

The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.

Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe.

They had the same fears that you have, the same aggressive tendencies and the same attachments, but they were freed in time because they believed.

Things don't make you unhappy. People don't make you unhappy. You make yourself unhappy. Because you are in the cycle. You're stuck. You're stuck in time.

The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness.

When we are very young children we know how to feel. It's innate. But as we lead a lifetime, we pick up so many thoughts, impressions, feelings, and ideas, that our sensitivity goes away.

Everyone feels some jealousy, some anger, and some hostility. Don't feel guilty. But to allow them to become dominant expressions of your way of life is off the wall.

Self-acceptance is involved in this process. You have got to be able to look at both your dark and your light side and not get enamored or depressed by either.