Quotes About Emotions

The best listeners listen between the lines.

Catching others' feelings is why some people think that they have too much empathy; they are overly sensitive to others' feelings and as a result can feel taken over, manipulated, conned, and so on. Sufficient boundary strength permits you to be empathic without experiencing the negative effects. Until

Your parent is not open to your thoughts, feelings, and ideas; does not relate to or care about your feelings; does not feel a need to change anything about himself; and can become enraged that you think that he is less than perfect. You cannot win, or even make any inroads into your parent's self-absorption.

A man could love only what he respected, not pitied.

We shall suffer as long as our thoughts and actions are prompted by desires and fears.

I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing.

I was afraid of becoming used to the sorrow that had grown like a gnarled tree inside me.

Couldn't you see that all my flippancy was only a mask, hiding my real emotions--crushing them down desperately!

imagination is a form of flagellation if a sensitive child lets it run wild ...

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Por vezes Mary falava e Fara escutava uma efusão de gaélico que não compreendia; por vezes era Fara que falava a Língua para uma Mary completamente em branco. Curiosamente, as palavras não eram importantes. O que importava era a representação das emoções nas expressões do rosto, a expressividade das mãos, o que a voz transmitia, segredos que os olhos contavam

I'm thirty-six years old and I've been married once and he left and I don't want to feel this way anymore. Like I can't be vulnerable. Can't relax. It's exhausting, always being on the defensive, keeping my guard up. I feel like Cuba.

people can say all kinds of things without ever opening their mouths...

He told me to tell you that it's hard to be useful and sad.

Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.

We will eventually come to realize that acting out our hatred only causes more hatred. Picking up the burning ember of ill will to throw at our enemy burns us before it burns them. Likewise, when we pick up the substance or behavior that allows us to temporarily avoid the pain, we play with fire. It may feel warm and fuzzy at first, but it will inevitably burn us to the core.

True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

if our definition of happiness is "experiencing that which is pleasurable," we are going to be disappointed a lot of the time.

The next step in the process of liberation is to break this chain reaction of suffering whenever life is unpleasant and feeling content only when life is pleasurable.

And when I retired, trust me, not only did Nolan Ryan, but the entire Ryan family had withdrawals from baseball. And it was tough.

Thank you, but I take no joy in my wedding." "Of course you don't, but still, you must act the part. I often take no joy in my spinsterhood; I have no babes to fill my arms, and yet by acting the part of it, I convince myself that I am not lonely. And sometimes it works.

The great Tolstoy wrote of families. He said that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

People will forget who you are, what you said, but never how you made them feel

The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.