Quotes About Emotions

write hard & clear about what hurts.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night is another thing.

I hate him, too, she shivered. I hate his damned suffering.

Emotions arise in the place where your mind and body meet

cualquier signo de infelicidad en cualquier forma, puede ser el cuerpo del dolor que despierta. Puede tomar la forma de irritación, impaciencia, humor sombrío, un deseo de hacer daño, ira, cólera, depresión, la necesidad de drama en su relación amorosa y así sucesivamente.

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.

Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.

You cannot love your partner one moment and attack him or her the next.

Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.

You discover that a "bored person" is not who you are. Boredom is simply a conditioned energy movement within you. Neither are you an angry, sad, or fearful person. Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not "yours," not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go.

Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

If you cannot feel your emotions, if you are cut off from them, you will eventually experience them on a purely physical level, as a physical problem or symptom.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral, which always is as it is.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not "yours," not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

In other words, the more you are identified with your mind, the more you suffer.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

What is commonly called "falling in love" is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever.

Nobody's life is entirely free of pain and sorrow. Isn't it a question of learning to live with them rather than trying to avoid them?

Negativity is never the optimum way of dealing with any situation.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not "yours," not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go.

Whenever you are in a negative state, there is something in you that wants the negativity, that perceives it as pleasurable, or that believes it will get you what you want.