Quotes About Emotions

If you try to bring 'teen drama ' you end up doing nothing but pouting.

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

We don't know very well those we love But I understand them fairly well Being all these people myself I who am however but a baboon.

All the seemingly positive valuations and judgments of ressentiment are hidden devaluations and negations.

The Puritan, like every rational type of asceticism, tried to enable a man to maintain and act upon his constant motives, especially those which it g in itself, against the emotions. In

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

your nervous system cannot tell the difference between a real experience and one that is vividly imagined.

The lucky of successful person has learned a simple secret. Call up, capture, evoke the feeling of success. When you feel successful and confident, you will act successfully.

Happiness is simply "a state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant a good share of the time.

If he feels bad because he is inferior, the cure is to make himself as good as everybody else, and the way to feel really good is to make himself superior. This striving for superiority gets him into more trouble, causes more frustration, and sometimes brings about a neurosis where none existed before. He becomes more miserable than ever, and "the harder he tries," the more miserable he becomes.

aggressive behavior is basic and fundamental, and that an animal cannot feel or express affection until channels have been provided for the expression of aggression.

Sentimentele sunt pamantul in care creste gandurile si ideile.

The underlying emotional problem has the same common denominator in every patient. This common denominator is that the patient has forgotten how, or probably never learned how, to control his present thinking to produce enjoyment.

If you are to be happy at all, you must be happy—period! Not happy "because of.

Our present state of self-confidence and poise is the result of what we have experienced rather than what we have learned intellectually.

This common denominator is that the patient has forgotten how, or probably never learned how, to control his present thinking to produce enjoyment.

When we experience expansive emotions of happiness, self-confidence, and success, we enjoy more life. And to the degree that we inhibit our abilities, frustrate our God-given talents, and allow ourselves to suffer anxiety, fear, self-condemnation, and self-hate, we literally choke off the life force available to us and turn our backs on the gift which our Creator has made. To the degree that we deny the gift of life, we embrace death.

I then suggested that he memorize a saying of Epictetus, which has always been a favorite of mine: "Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.

In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.

The first time is always the hardest...getting your heartbroken. The first time–it's always coming from outer space. You never see it coming, but it will be easier next time.