Quotes About Emotions

I själva verket är det så att den individuella lyckan verkar vara starkt genetiskt betingad, precis som alla andra personlighetsdrag.

You have noticed that truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs; but it is the same face, laughing or weeping.

Just as with swimming or riding a bike, you can't really learn how to fall in love from reading a book not even this one. Sure you can read about the different swimming strokes or the parts of a bicycle; you can learn the theory and physics behind the sport. But to get to the heart of the matter you've got to leap in and learn by doing.

Falling for someone romantically is more complex. Many of the old classic languages refer to three different types of love or affection. Roughly translated, they include general, brotherly and sexual love. When all three are present, a relationship is indeed rich.

when you see someone injured, the primitive pain centers in your own brain activate almost instantaneously—the more sophisticated mental process of empathizing with psychological suffering unfolds much more slowly.

McLuhan believed that preliterate peoples must have enjoyed a particularly intense "sensuous involvement" with the world. When we learned to read, he argued, we suffered a "considerable detachment from the feelings or emotional involvement that a nonliterate man or society would experience.

Her only shame was that she felt none.

They looked at each other and some refraction of the pain in Tom's heart must have shown in his eyes. Frank said, 'In pretty deep, huh?' 'About as deep as it gets.

What wanton liars love makes of us.

Maybe that's nature's way. Making people you once loved less lovable, so that it won't be so hard when they go.

...A fuel-less flame is nothing but a wraith, However wrought, if unsustained by passion.

I think all teenagers feel alone, and that nobody else knows what they are going through and all that sort of stuff.

At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.

But I'll let you in on a secret, Nonius: it is important for women to break hearts. You men can destroy in so many ways. But for us—for those lucky enough to make men fall in love with us—it is how we make our mark on the world. It is proof we were ever here, the pain we leave behind. And the more worthy the lovers we break, the better." "Shall I take that as a warning?" "Only if you intend to fall in love.

The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it?

I kept seeing Yolanda on the parquet, two men pinning her to the ground, her eyes loaded with hatred and madness combing her hair. I was stormed by her image and my heart could not bear it. We know so little about people. But about the people we love, we know even less.

I have their letters in front of me, three from Priscilla and one from Winnie. Together, they dramatise the proverb: 'When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.

There's no love like the first.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.