Quotes About Emotions

Too often we confuse being emotional with expressing emotions clearly.

You can preface their expression with an admission that you are uncomfortable with these feelings, or that you aren't sure they make sense, but follow that preface by expressing them. Your purpose here is simply to get them out. You can decide what, if anything, to do about them later.

They're irrational.

It is a fundamental rule: feelings crave acknowledgment

As we saw in Chapter 2, often we merely trade our conclusions back and forth, and never get into the process of exploring where these views come from. You have information about yourself that the other person has no access to. That kind of information can be important; consider sharing it. And you have life experiences that are influencing what you think and why, as well as how you feel. When you tell these stories, it puts some meat onto the bones of your views.

Listening, understanding, and showing empathy with feelings are the things that help dissipate them, making it easier for the person having those feelings to calm down and open up to other perspectives.

Expressing Your Views and Feelings Your goal should be to express your views and feelings to your own satisfaction. You hope that the other person will understand what you are saying, and perhaps be moved by it, but you can't count on that. What you can do is say, as well as you can, what is important for you to say about your views, intentions, contributions, feelings, and identity issues. You can share your story.

Your feelings result entirely from how you're thinking right now. It is your thoughts, and not the circumstances of your life, that create all your feelings. You feel the way you think.

El cuerpo, la mente, las emociones son otras tantas vestiduras del verdadero yo el cual se viste con ellas pero se encuentra en un lugar "fuera" del espacio y el tiempo, más allá de todo concepto y explicación. El contacto con quien verdaderamente somos es la Iluminación. En ella no desaparece la individualidad sino que se expande para abarcarlo todo.

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.

It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free and happy in love must have surmounted his respect for women and have come to terms with the idea of incest with his mother or sister.

When you finally betray me, I hope you care enough to try to kill me yourself.

Those with a noticeable but limited ability are sent to Honoghr, Gentes, or Gamorr to become Sith Warriors or Marauders. There they are taught to channel their emotions into mindless rage and battle fury.

A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about ecstasy. What is the nature of these emotions? The problem with photography is that it only deals with appearances.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Je regrettais la mort de cette fille comme on regrette la destruction totale d'une belle Å"uvre.

E' caratteristico degli animi indeboliti vedere tutte le cose attraverso un velo: l'anima si crea da sè i suoi orizzonti, ed è lei che vi crea un cielo tempestoso

There is a feeling like anger and betrayal. It is like frustration. It is something interior, ineffable, and it yearns to be effed. I can only emit yells, instead.

I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.

I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream.

And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days...

Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.