Quotes About Emotions

Alimentados de pesimismo no vivimos la vida, la sufrimos.

Es algo que suele suceder con los muertos: lamentar no haberles dicho a tiempo cuánto los amabas, lo necesarios que te eran. Cuando alguien imprescindible se va de tu lado, vuelves los ojos a tu interior y no encuentras más que banalidad, porque los vivos, comparados con los muertos, resultamos insoportablemente banales.

Entonces Daniel no sabía que los hombres se enfurecen a veces con la vida y contra un orden de cosas que consideran irritante y desigual.

Nothing that your partner does is personal. Your partner is dealing with her own garbage. If you don't take it personally, it will be so easy for you to have a wonderful relationship with your partner

Lovers who only pursue the joys of visible flesh have never succeeded in becoming united, nor in loving each other. When they lie side by side in their beds, they are nevertheless far apart, separated by an impassable thread of air, by the sword of forgetfulness; because they will never dream the same dream. Each of them pursues his solitary road, without his companion. Only when lovers are capable of dreaming the same dream are they truly Lovers. When they love one another in their dreams.

It's almost always sadder to stay than to depart

Cláudia, não precisas de falar só porque vamos calados. A coisa mais difícil e mais bonita de partilhar entre duas pessoas é o silêncio.

há alturas em que a beleza é tão devastadora que magoa.

Um amor precisa de um turbilhão de palavras, das frases aparentemente inúteis e sem sentido, de elogios, do ruído das banalidades. Não há felicidade que seja tantas vezes fútil, tantas vezes inútil.

Marita stapana, vorbi el cu voce moale, nefericirea nu ti-a adus-o purtarea Imparatului,ci iubirea mea.

Vitoria il judeca pe Lipan. Avea ea sa-i spuie multe, si le spunea, fara sa miste buzele si limba. I le spunea din launtru, cu banuieli si suferinti vechi.

Control over consciousness is not simply a cognitive skill. At least as much as intelligence, it requires the commitment of emotions and will. It is not enough to know how to do it; one must do it, consistently, in the same way as athletes or musicians who must keep practicing what they know in theory.

Entropy is the normal state of consciousness—a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable. To avoid this condition, people are naturally eager to fill their minds with whatever information is readily available, as long as it distracts attention from turning inward and dwelling on negative feelings. This explains why such a huge proportion of time is invested in watching television, despite the fact that it is very rarely enjoyed.

Even when children are taught music, the usual problem often arises: too much emphasis is placed on how they perform, and too little on what they experience. Parents

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.

the life of average people, we find the other side of the glittering coin of gregariousness: the most painful events are also those that involve relationships. Unfair bosses and rude customers make us unhappy on the job. At home an uncaring spouse, an ungrateful child, and interfering in-laws are the prime sources of the blues. How is it possible to reconcile the fact that people cause both the best and the worst times?

Subjective experience is not just one of the dimensions of life, it is life itself.

When do we get to the interesting part—the tortured souls, the impossible dreams, the agony and the ecstasy of creation?

creative persons definitely know both extremes and experience both with equal intensity and without inner conflict.

At certain times in history cultures have taken it for granted that a person wasn't fully human unless he or she learned to master thoughts and feelings.

Gioacchino Rossini, the composer of William Tell and many other operas, had a good grasp of the relationship between music and food: "What love is to the heart, appetite is to the stomach. The stomach is the conductor that leads and livens up the great orchestra of our emotions." If

Perhaps the most urgent task facing us is to create a new educational curriculum that will make each child aware, from the first grade on, that life in the universe is interdependent. It should be an education that trains the mind to perceive the network of causes and effects in which our actions are embedded, and trains the emotions and the imagination to respond appropriately to the consequences of those actions.

Si te sientes dolido por las cosas externas, no son éstas las que te molestan, sino tu propio juicio acerca de ellas.

Changing external conditions might seem to work at first, but if a person is not in control of his consciousness, the old fears or desires will soon return, reviving previous anxieties. One