Quotes About Emotions

I got up alone the next morning in the darkness, and kissed my children good-by as they lay asleep in their beds.... [F]or the first time there was brought home to me a tiny part of that vast human misery summed up under the term of war-time separations. During the next four years, I was destined to see my children only on rare and brief occasions; and it was a loss which no victories, no reparations, no acquisitions of power could ever make good.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. OSCAR WILDE

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. IRWIN CAREY

Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only. RÉMY DE GOURMONT

Football's the kind of game where, if your team's doing really badly, it gets you into the mode of having a laugh at losing. You can actually enjoy looking forward to the next tragic defeat. And there's nothing else that gives me that ability. It serves an absolutely brilliant, beautiful purpose. It's the theater of emotions, not dreams.

Damasio and Bechara developed their 'Somatic Marker Hypothesis'. According to this hypothesis, each event we store in memory comes bookmarked with the bodily sensations – Damasio and Bechara call these 'somatic markers' – we felt at the time of living through it for the first time; and these help us decide what to do when we find ourselves in a similar situation.

dream is an inspiring picture of the future that energizes your mind, will, and emotions, empowering you to do everything you can to achieve it.

Sometimes in a nervous frenzy I just fling words as if I were flinging mud at a wall. Blurt out, heave out, babble out something—anything—as a first draft.

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.

I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I?

My education was an education by movies.

People tell me it's a sin, to know and feel too much within.

We didn't feel so good when we took our son to college and saw a sign on the liquor store - Back to School Sale.

Graduation Speech: You'll have to excuse me if I cry. I've been a little teary-eyed all week the sadness the joy . . . the fact that I'm off my parents' payroll.

My heart beats, echoes into the cold streets where nightmares and darkness begin to meet.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

Our breathing reflects every emotional or physical effort and every disturbance.

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.

I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.