Quotes About Emotions

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions

For children to know and regulate their emotions, and be socially connected, they need to experience this kind of interaction many hundreds of times in the critical period and then to have it reinforced later in life.

REM sleep has also been shown to be particularly important for enhancing our ability to retain emotional memories and for allowing the hippocampus to turn short-term memories of the day before into long-term ones (i.e., it helps make memories more permanent, leading to structural change in the brain).

Every time the brain is used, four components are triggered: motor movement, thought, sensation, and feeling. Under normal circumstances, we don't experience one without the other three.*

At the bottom of every important conflict is a sense of love having been betrayed

Sympathy, on the other hand, is empathy plus caring. When we're sympathetic to others, we want them to be happy and well, we don't want them to be upset or unhappy. We actually care about them. Compassion is sympathy for others specifically in the case of their suffering.

Forgiveness Meditation. Settle into meditation. Recall someone whom you know you need to forgive. Just let the person's image or the sense of who they are arise in your mind. Feel the feelings. Observe whatever happens without entanglement. Let the feelings come and go. Don't try to forgive, just be present.

The Jerusalem Report captures this Holocaust kitsch moment on the March: "'I'm so scared, I can't go on, I want to be in Israel already,' repeats a young Connecticut woman over and over. Her body is shaking. . . . Suddenly her friend pulls out a large Israeli flag. She wraps it around the two of them and they move on." An Israeli flag: don't leave home without it.87

One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.

The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture

Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart

The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other.

Je me rappelle encore avec quelle émotion le vieillard que j'étais à l'âge de neuf ans, de retour du camp, reçut au jour solennel de son anniversaire un recueil de contes roumains. En cet après-midi d'été 1945, dans le silence de la pièce, seul dans l'univers, je découvrais la langue fascinante, magnétique, miraculeuse, d'un conteur de génie. (p. 9)

The human libido is essentially narcissistic, but it seeks a world to love as it loves itself.

Our repressed desires are the desires we had, unrepressed, in childhood; and they are sexual desires

One thing you distinctly never want to hear a man you're interested in say softly is that his favorite book in the whole world is The Golden Notebook. Here you are dealing with a liar from the black lagoon and it's time to start feeling in your purse for carfare.

Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.

Anyway, who in their right mind would ever say a person was supposed to be happy? In your life happiness is either cut to your length or isn't.

Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.

i am really colored & really sad sometimes & you hurt me more than i ever danced outta/ i am ready to die like a lily in the desert/ & i cdnt let you in on it cuz i didnt know/ here is what i have/ poems/ big thighs/ lil tits/ & so much love/ will you take it from me this one time/ please this is for you

You can't fuck somebody into loving you.

though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.

Let me just say that I am not often lonely in country places. In cities I am, like the writers of the letters. Nature doesn't break your heart: other people do. Yet, we cannot live apart from each other in bowers feeding on nectar. We're in this together, this getting through our lives, as the fact that we are word-users shows.