Quotes About Emotions

Realizing you can't control what people choose to think: You can't make everyone happy—least of all someone who is projecting their own unhappiness onto you. Stop taking responsibility for your loved one's inner world and start taking responsibility for your own.

affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days) When most people feel bad, they can take steps to feel better.

impulsive aggression is an impulsive, hostile, even violent reaction, triggered by immediate threats of rejection or abandonment paired with frustration.

For the person with BPD, feeling separated from someone else can be frightening. It makes them feel rejected, abandoned, and alone. So, consciously or unconsciously, they may discourage independence or independent thinking in people close to them.

How does Forrest Gump have sex? What could be more of a revelation about a character than watching them have sex? That says a lot about them, how they touch another person in bed.

Language has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

Men differ by what they show, and have in common what they hide.

Solo leemos verdaderamente a fondo lo que leemos por motivos personales. Puede ser que busquemos conseguir algún poder. Puede ser, simplemente, que odiemos al autor.

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

A man who is of 'sound mind' is one who keeps his inner madman under lock and key.

Het niet bewust kunnen ervaren en uiten van het gevoelsleven kan bijdragen tot ziek worden. Dat emoties te maken hebben met lichamelijke spanningen en dat ontlading deugd doet, van lachen tot huilen, kunnen we allemaal ervaren. Maar het omgekeerde verband, dat tussen ziekte en het niet kunnen uiten en ontladen van emoties, bleef lange tijd een raadsel. Ondertussen hebben we een sleutel gevonden om de deur te openen naar het holistische netwerk. Die sleutel heet "stress".

The long sobsOf the violinsOf autumnPierce my heartWith monotonous languor.

Il faut, voyez-vous, nous pardonner les choses: De cette façon nous serons bien heureuses Et si notre vie a des instants moroses Du moins nous serons, n'est-ce pas ? deux pleureuses.

J'ai la fureur d'aimer. Mon cœur si faible est fou. (...) Qu'y faire ? Ah, laisser faire!

Tears are shed in my heart like the rain on the town. ( Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur la ville. )

Ce fut le temps sous de clairs ciels, (Vous en souvenez-vous, Madame?) De baisers superficiels Et des sentiments à fleur d'âme. It was a time of cloudless skies, (My lady, do you recall?) Of kisses that brushed the surface And feelings that shook the soul.

The ones who love us best are the ones we'll lay to rest And visit their graves on holidays at best The ones who love us least are the ones we'll die to please If it's any consolation, I don't begin to understand them

Oxytocin connects us to other people; oxytocin makes us feel what other people feel. And it's easy to cause people's brains to release oxytocin. Let me show you. Come here. Give me a hug.

Gradually, we have become each other's weather.

Early people are anxious, on-time people are obsessive compulsive, and late people are hostile, or passively-aggressively hostile.

How lucky you are, to love and to be loved in return.

I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be.

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.