Quotes About Emotions

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing it makes you feel like an idiot.

The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

Estoy muy cansado, Valentín. Estoy cansado de sufrir. Vos no sabés, me duelte todo por dentro. - ¿ Adónde te duele? - Adentro del pecho, y en la garganta - ¿ Porque será que la tristeza se siente siempre ahí?

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

Que me da lástima porque me encariñé con los personajes. Y ahora se terminó, y es como si estuvieran muertos.

And what's so bad about being soft like a woman? Why is it men or whoever, some poor bastard, some queen, can't be sensitive too, if he's got a mind to? ... - But if men acted like women there wouldn't be anymore torturers.

And the good thing about feeling happy, you know, Valentin? ...It's that you think it's forever, that one's never ever going to feel unhappy again.

Norma Shearer: Mas si por miedo has de buscar en el Amor sólo paz y placer, entonces mejor será que pases de largo por su umbral, rumbo al mundo sin inviernos ni primaveras ni veranos, donde reirás, pero no a carcajadas, y llorarás, pero no todas tus lágrimas.

por qué llorar... por qué sufrir...Callar mi dicha quisiera, ...que el mundo no lo supiera, ...mas grita dentro de mi... esta ansiedad de vivir...para querer...Estoy feliz, ...también lo estás, ...me quieres tú, ... te quiero más...Estoy tan enamorado, que ya olvidé lo pasado, ...y hoy me siento feliz, ...porque te he visto... llorar por mí

El pintor quería retratar las heridas invisibles de la existencia

indifference is fragile armour. — Manuel Ulacia (1953-2001), from "The Stone at the Bottom." Poetry in Translation (archived) Translated by Sarah Lawson.

Let people know when you feel unhappy, disappointed, or hurt about something. Once the feeling has been acknowledged by you—not necessarily by others—it tends to dissipate and is less likely to trouble you. If you hold your feelings inside, you are apt to explode at some minor incident, potentially causing still more harm to your health. Own up to what is in your heart and make peace with it forever.

Eastern doctors have long viewed disease as a symptom of life being out of balance. Therefore, the medicine they practice seeks to enhance and optimize health through diet, lifestyle, and emotional well-being.

Parece que la luz hace que la tristeza se vaya.

Es que todos los que han nacido para amar viven así como ella vivió?, ¿ahogando minuto a minuto lo más vital dentro de sí?

María Luisa Bombal

Me sentí liviana de toda pena. Fue como si la angustia que me torturaba hubiera andado tanteando en mí hasta escaparse por el camino de las lágrimas.

Today I smash racquets, for tomorrow we die.

Hurt is anger. We feel angry because we believe that someone did not give us our due. We don't feel hurt or slighted because we are not invited to a party but because we expected to be invited; we took it for granted. "It is my due; did I not invite her to my party?

what peace floods the soul when she rises above natural feelings.

when one expects pure and unmixed suffering, the smallest [10] joy becomes an unhoped-for surprise.

Like Marie, we can erroneously believe that our desires and fervor are the measure of our love for God; this is an example of judging our spiritual life with an emotional yardstick. Thérèse tells us that the opposite is true, namely, that our love for God is proved when we act in a loving manner without the support of affect.

The underlying dynamic here is that a want can easily be interpreted as a need. This happens in two ways. First, we can make our emotions the criteria of reality. "If I feel that something is true, then it must be true." Second, we can indulge a desire for so long that we become dependent upon its fulfillment. Eventually, we believe that we cannot live without the object to which we have become attached. We become trapped by our desires.