Quotes About Emotions

My father criticizes me all the time. My grades went up from Cs to Bs in two courses and down in another, and all he could talk about was the course I had done worse in. Why would a father say something like that to a kid?" We sometimes have to wait weeks or months for that brief window of emotional disclosure when a boy suddenly shows us his sadness and bewilderment, which had previously been masked by silence or anger.

Because if there's one thing we've learned, it's that, unless we give him a viable alternative, today's angry young man is destined to become tomorrow's lonely and embittered middle-aged man.

These distressed boys were also more likely to act aggressively toward the baby—telling it to "shut up," for instance. Boys whose heart rate showed a lower stress level were more likely to comfort the infant.

I recognize you. You are a boy—full of life, full of dreams, full of feeling.

For too many sons, this emotional breach between them and their fathers remains a lifelong source of sadness, anger, bitterness, or shame.

If you ask a boy, 'How did that make you feel?' he very often won't know how to respond. He'll talk instead about what he did or plans to do about the problem. Some boys don't even have the words for their feelings--sad or angry or ashamed--for instance. A large part of our work with boys and men is to help them understand their emotional life and develop an emotional vocabulary.

expectations, rules, and requests for compliance often drives the best-intentioned parents over the edge.

Give boys permission to have an internal life, approval for the full range of human emotions, and help in developing an emotional vocabulary so that they may better understand themselves and communicate more effectively with others.

Fathers and sons are players in a tale of unrequited love—a story told in yearning, anger, sadness, and shame.

Emotional distance keeps many good men

Emotional distance keeps many good men from being better fathers;

Teach boys that emotional courage is courage, and that courage and empathy are the sources of real strength in life.

We build emotional literacy, first, by being able to identify and name our emotions; second, by recognizing the emotional content of voice and facial expression, or body language; and third, by understanding the situations or reactions that produce emotional states.

boys suffer deeply as a result of the destructive emotional training our culture imposes upon them, that many of them are in crisis, and that all of them need help.

Remember, people don't buy from you because they understand what you sell—they buy from you because they feel understood.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart." — Jonathan Swift

Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are.

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

I had lost my mind and fallen into my heart.

It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.

People who love themselves, don't hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.

Kids are like heroin, a little heroin addiction. When it's bad, you've never been so miserable, but when it's good you've never been so high.

Resentment has a way of metastasizing into bitterness, and bitterness has a way of curdling into the kind of anger that can doom a relationship.

sex is about connection and intimacy, pleasure and release.