Quotes About Emotions

The body never lies." Martha Graham

Misery is a communicable disease.

Five Human Truths." We need to be understood, feel special, feel as though we belong, feel that we're in control, and know that we have the chance to reach our potential

You can gussy them up with all the pretty rationales you want, but most major life decisions are whims.

Menders of all times and places have taught that silencing the thoughts in our heads and opening to the experience of the body and emotions is the basis of all healing. It's the only means by which we can reclaim our true nature or feel the subtle cues telling us how to find our way through life.

People who don't honor their losses don't grieve. They may lose all joy in living, but they don't actively mourn, and this means that they don't heal.

The most fertile idea of the Stoics, in my view, is their analysis of emotions as containing evaluative thoughts about what is most important for one's well-being. That view I find basically correct, though in need of a lot of further work. Their normative analysis of the emotions seems wrong to me, namely that we should get rid of them all, but they are pretty on target in their critique of anger.

Anger is about status injury.

Work did not destroy the loneliness; work was only a fog in which they moved so that they might not see the loneliness of each other

However, I hold it admirable that this wife — your lady, sir — can find love and marriage consonant." I thought that sadness coloured her voice, and suddenly a series of pictures flashed on my mind's eye:

Why wouldn't you want to be as close as you could to another person's glow, when you felt it? I still think that, to tell the truth. It makes being married hard.

That was the funny thing about my feelings for Ben - in most ways, they had nothing to do with Daniel. My feelings for them seemed like two entirely separate but necessary chambers of my heart.

you are rewarding and encouraging him each and every time you allow him to see your anger, your confusion, or your hurt.

I would like to suggest that the overriding belief systems of certain cultures encourage born sociopaths to compensate cognitively for what they are missing emotionally. In contrast with our extreme emphasis on individualism and personal control, certain cultures, many in East Asia, dwell theologically on the interrelatedness of all living things. Interestingly, this value is also the basis of conscience, which is an intervening sense of obligation rooted in a sense of connectedness.

We are all a little crazy.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. a

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.

Ugh, emotions.

You know that thing humans do where they think they're being completely logical and they absolutely are not being logical at all, and on some level they know that, but can't stop? Apparently it can happen to SecUnits, too.

The bad thing about having emotions is, you know, OH SHIT WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO ME.

I felt this would be the point where a human would sigh, so I sighed.

I looked down. I was dripping onto the floor, a mix of blood and fluid. I hate it when I leak.