Quotes About Emotions

You come to realize that thoughts come and go of their own accord; that you are not your thoughts.

You come to the profound understanding that thoughts and feelings (including negative ones) are transient.

G'Kar: We are all the sum of our tears. Too little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there. Too much, the best of us is washed away.

I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.

The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.

if you don't speak your emotions you serve them, and if you don't tell your story you lose it—or, what might be worse, you get lost inside it. Telling is how we cement details, preserve continuity, stay sane. We say ourselves into being every day, or else.

Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.

Understanding the meaning of a biblical passage involves the whole person — mind, emotions, body, and so on. Unbelievers, by definition, do not accept the things of the Spirit of God.

Ian sat and listened in the studio, headphones around his neck, staring at the floor. That was his heart they'd just heard.

Writers write for various reasons. I write because my heart demands so. There is so much freedom in the simple act of sitting there, holding up my hands, waiting to pound on the computer keyboard, waiting for words to pour from the tips of my fingers and compose the melody of life from the faded tapestry of my past.

Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life.

Is it not an aberration of the memory to love only what it has lost? Just why do we lose these things, only to languish with nostalgia for the same places and the same people that earlier bored us to extinction? Is not all this predictable, vulgar folly?

There is nothing more gorgeous than being in a room with a play or watching someone on a stage delineate the human condition.

The Hebrews have no name for Him, the Moslems have a hundred. Both suggest the same thing, that there are concepts as well as emotions that can be communicated only allegorically.

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

If you're always thinking pessimistic thoughts, pessimism will taint your mind. You will never be able to be happy.

If you're having fun, enjoy it. If you're angry, get angry. And when you want to cry, go ahead and cry your heart out. You'll feel a lot better after a good cry. And then you'll be able to laugh again.

whacking the ground, like a wife pounding her pillow, alone all night.

Well, have you ever known someone who is nice and nasty, who makes you love them one minute and hate them the next? Who makes you feel wonderful and terrible and you never know which one it is going to be?

Life is messy, relationships are messy, but sometimes you have to keep jumping in the mud to find the sweet spot. Or you can give up.

I feel like I should apologize. I didn't want to like you, but I couldn't help it." "Really? I wanted to like you. Wow, you're like the meanest woman ever.

No not really, it is just like real life. Not everyday you are happy and not everyday you are sad.

I had to be alone to know we were so close.

Because all the brilliant ones- they can sing it and they can paint it, but they can't do it. You can't expect them to love you.