Quotes About Emotions

I think it's phony to force oneself to be jolly just because it happens to be marked on the calendar.

Mia didn't know what she wanted, but she knew what she didn't want any more. The waiting, the silence, the suspicion. She wanted to rediscover her appetite for life and to stop waking up with her stomach in knots.

People become violent because they want something.

You do not want to base your decisions on fear. It sounds like we're repeating ourselves, but this is a subtle and important distinction. Fear-based decisions are usually bad ones. Think about the emotional decisions you've made in your lifetime. How many of those came back to bite you in the butt? It's normal for fear to be present. Acknowledge it and move on to handle the danger of the situation.

what's down deep remains amazingly similar. It's not whom you hate, but rather that the system is designed for you to hate someone.

I guess we can start at the end but it's really the middle. Let's just call it the really bad part. My second wife, Mishna, brought it to my attention that I had an anger problem. She didn't say it like that. What she said was, "I'm leaving." Then she took her vagina and left.

I think a lot of comedy comes from hypersensitivity, from being too vulnerable to deal with life and needing to preemptively protect yourself.

I always think about suicide because I find it relaxing.

It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By "we" I mean adults. We're adults, right? But emotionally we're a culture of seven-year-olds. Have you ever had that moment when are you updating your status and you realize that every status update is just a variation on a single request: "Would someone please acknowledge me?

Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, "No you can't.

When you're young you really think you're angry for reasons and causes. As you get older, you realize you might just be angry.

The truth is, I can't read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better.

Some people don't even realize they're bitter. If you don't know whether you are or not, here's a quick quiz you can give yourself. If you ever wake up in the morning and the first thing you say is "Oh, fuck, not again," you might be a little bitter.

People who have babies tell me I will know a love that is beyond anything I can imagine, and a joy that is indescribable. Love and joy? That sounds horrifying. I have no way of knowing whether I can handle either of those. I'm much better with need and fear. They are what ground me.

What I'm saying is that we all hold, in our minds, the ability to create images that would break us in half.

To learn that a great book has gone out of print is to be reminded of our mortality, because something we have made an intimate part of our emotional selves has been declared, by the publishing world and the culture at large, to be obsolete.

SLEEP MODULATES TEMPERAMENT

If insufficient sleep consistently 'taxes' young children's emotion responses, they may not manage emotion regulation challenges effectively, potentially placing them at risk for future emotional/behavioral problems.…

In one study, when children learned how to cope with frustration during the day, they were observed to settle themselves better at bedtime and later at night when they awoke.

Self-quieting skills refer to a child's ability to calm himself or herself, with no help from an adult, when the child is unhappy, angry, or frustrated.

Teach self-soothing. Learning self-soothing does not mean that your child will necessarily cry. Patience and perseverance will pay off.

To really know someone is to have love and hated him in turn.

Mieux vaut d'être haï par un doux qu'aimé par un cruel.

Le coeur a ses prisons que l'intelligence n'ouvre pas. [in De la grandeur]