Quotes About Emotions

We can't look to our feelings to determine truth. We must look to truth to rein in our feelings.

Feelings are broken boards. Only truth is solid, unchanging, and stable through and through.

When you feed negativity on the inside, it's negativity that you'll exude on the outside.

Thought for the Day: I have to make the choice every day to interrupt my fleshly tendencies of yelling and getting angry over minor things.

Numb souls are never growing souls.

felt stuck with a suffocating sense of wanting to feel better but not knowing how. My brain has such a hard time overriding my heart sometimes. One rejection after another did quite a number on my heart. And each new rejection didn't just add hurt; it multiplied the pain that was already there. That accumulation created a dark feeling of hopeless defeat.

My body size is not tied to my happy. If my happy was missing when I was larger, it will still be missing when I get smaller.

People do affect us. But the peace of our souls is tethered to all that God is.

I don't know what to say or how to say it." So I said nothing. Not a word. I stuffed it all down and started to build a barrier to hide behind. After the incident, I smiled when I saw her, but I held her at a distance. She knew something was wrong, but when she questioned me about it, I lied. "Everything's fine," I said. But everything wasn't fine. Not at all.

when my identity is tied to circumstances I become extremely insecure because circumstances are unpredictable and ever-changing.

if we allow our thoughts to stink, that smell will leak out of every bit of us—our words, our actions, and especially our reactions.

And the gaping hole left behind is in some ways worse than death. If their absence was caused by death, you would grieve their loss. But when their absence is caused by rejection, you not only grieve their loss but you also have to wrestle through the fact that they wanted this.

when you and I roll around in thoughts that stink, it affects the atmosphere everywhere we go.

If things are ever going to get better, we have to acknowledge our underbellies that fuel our unglued reactions.

Why can't I seem to control my reactions? I stuff. I explode.

True peacekeeping is about properly processing the emotions before they get stuffed and rot into something horribly toxic.

This isn't an indication that your healing isn't working. It's just an indication that you're a human still holding on to some hurt that needs to be resolved.

We need to keep a gauge on our hearts so we can process, clarify, and understand our lives and relationships more deeply.

A heaviness settled in that I couldn't explain or pinpoint exactly. I'm not sure how to properly describe it, except to say on different days it crept up with varying personas that seemed to hold me together and rip me apart simultaneously. Cynicism dressed like a security guard, making me believe that if I hoped for less, it would protect me and prevent more pain. In reality, though, it was a thief in disguise, out to steal every bit of closeness between me and those I love.

We can call it what it is and ask God to help us. I'm tired, God. What do I do? I'm lonely, God. What do I do? I'm mad, God. What do I do? I'm insecure, God. What do I do? I'm frustrated, God. What do I do? Outward expressions are internal indications.

it comes to my struggles with feeling unglued.

God gave us emotions. Emotions allow us to feel as we experience life. Because we feel, we connect. We share laughter and know the gift of empathy. Our emotions are what enable us to drink deeply from love and treasure it. And yes, we also experience difficult emotions such as sadness, fear, shame, and anger. But might these be important as well?

God's goodness by how my life felt at any given time.

Memories are both our greatest treasures and our greatest sorrows.