Quotes About Emotions

why people who have been unfaithful to their partners are prone to trivializing their affairs.

So that basically sums it up to me, love songs are eternal. I don't think there's ever going to be a time when there's no one in love. I certainly hope not.

Emotions change how we see the world and how we interpret the actions of others. We do not seek to challenge why we are feeling a particular emotion; instead, we seek to confirm it.

the unhappy person is expected to conceal negative feelings, putting on a polite smile to accompany the "Just fine, thank you, and how are you?" reply to the "How are you today?" The true feelings will probably go undetected, not because the smile is such a good mask but because in polite exchanges people rarely care how the other person actually feels.

Smiles are probably the most underrated facial expressions, much more complicated than most people realize. There are dozens of smiles, each differing in appearance and in the message expressed.

People do misinterpret events, especially the meaning of other people's actions and the motives that lead people to act one way or another.

It is hard not to reciprocate a smile; people do so even if the smile they reciprocate is one shown in a photograph. People enjoy looking at most smiles, a fact well known to advertisers.

Consider having as a friend, co-worker, or lover a person who in terms of emotional control and disguise was like a three-month-old infant, yet in all other respects—intelligence, skills, and so on—was fully able as any adult. It is a painful prospect.

No discussion of facial signs of deceit would be complete without considering one of the most frequent of all the facial expressions—smiles. They are unique among the facial expressions. It takes but one muscle to show enjoyment, while most of the other emotions require the action of three to five muscles.

The behavioral clues in face, body, voice, and manner of speaking are not signs of lying per se. They may be signs of emotions that don't fit with what is being said. Or they may be signs that the suspect is thinking about what he is saying before he says it. They are flags marking areas which need to be explored.

Most often lies fail because some sign of an emotion being concealed leaks. The stronger the emotions involved in the lie, and the greater the number of different emotions, the more likely it is that the lie will be betrayed by some form of behavioral leakage.

when they were, in fact, lying. They were taken in by the false expressions and ignored the expressions that leaked the true feelings. When people lie, their most evident, easy-to-see expressions, which people pay most attention to, are often the false ones. The subtle signs

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

Actions and words that flow from anger are generally going to be violent, physically, verbally, psychologically. Their purpose will be to hurt. For this reason, Buddhists hold that if you're trying to combine compassion with anger, you're kidding yourself. Anger opens the door to violence. And once you're violent, you've cut off your interconnectedness and profoundly jeopardized your ability to love.

Statistics or graphs,'" are not optimal to understand the 'experience of suffering.'" (qtd in Sutton 11)

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge—and has to content oneself with dreaming.

Soyez amoureuses vous serez heureuses

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.

There are very fast-acting pathways in your brain that, with the first flush of threat, bypass your frontal cortex and rational thinking.12