Quotes About Emotions

Emotions, particularly anger, are like fire. They can cook your food and keep you warm, or they can burn your house down.

In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

What keeps me motivated is not the food itself but all the bonds and memories the food represents.

In my experience, clever food is not appreciated at Christmas. It makes the little ones cry and the old ones nervous.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.

Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better.

Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.

Entertainment, in the end, is a food industry for feeling.

Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.

The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot.

Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I'm in a space that is not positive.

The body needs food, warmth and water, but your heart needs more.

We are using the food as a doorway to understanding the rest of our lives.

Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain.

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect the eye-sight. In its train are endless ills.

Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

Love is a choice. Total forgiveness is a choice. It is not a feeling-at least at first-but is rather an act of the will. It is the choice to tear up the record of wrongs we have been keeping.