Quotes About Emotions

Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.

Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief? WILLIAM BLAKE, SONGS OF INNOCENCE

The love of God is far more important than any human love. Sexual fulfillment finds its place, at best, as a subsidiary good within this larger picture.

Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours if they don't they never were.

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.

What this means is that our bodies are not disconnected from our brains. They are an extended part of the brain. The important question to ask people when they say "I feel frustrated," is, "Where? Where does the feeling start? Where do you feel it first in your body? Where does it move to?" Feelings can't stay still. They are always moving somewhere, in some direction.

One of these directions will feel right when they think about their feeling. From this, people typically get the idea that it is moving ever so minimally. The fact that it's moving means that you can move it faster, you can move it slower, you can move it forward, and you can move it backward. Our feelings are not outside of our control. In fact, this is the very thing most of us need to gain control of because, when you do, you can alter your feelings.

ONE OF THE MAIN focuses in my work has been discovering ways to help people achieve what I call "personal freedom". Personal freedom means having the freedom to be able to control your thoughts and to manifest the kinds of feelings you want in your life.

Think of a time when you felt really good. Now, step inside that time and see through your eyes, hear through your ears, and feel the really good feeling all the way through your body. Make the images bigger, brighter, more colorful, and you'll probably find yourself feeling even better. Make the sounds louder and crisper, and if there are no sounds, add sounds. Start to intensify the good feeling.

Next, find out where in your body the feeling starts and where it goes. Discover the direction it spins inside your body, and spin it faster and faster and, again, notice your feelings intensify. There lies the control you have over your brain to create powerful feelings inside of you.

When you find the difference, I want you to take the thing you no longer wish to believe and push it all the way off into the distance, then move it over and pop it up on the other side so that when you look at it you know it's a lie and you're angry about it.

I know that I'm fond of saying this repeatedly, but the best thing about the past is that it's over and when it's not over something is amiss in your mind. It's not the original event or perpetrator that's making you remember—it's you, inside your own mind, holding on to terrible memories. None of us are exempt from this.

Whenever people have trouble letting go of good things or bad things, it's because they are associated to the memory. It doesn't matter what it is, it's just like being there. If you're holding on to bad memories, it's now time to look at them and shrink them down.

Nothing wears off, because as long as you think differently, you will feel differently.

When people start asking good questions, they make good pictures inside their heads. If you make good pictures, you will get good feelings. Then life becomes something that you feel more enthusiasm for.

Yet I must tell you, that all these graces which are expressed by passions of sorrow, fear, joy, hope, love, are not so certainly to be tried by the passion that is in them, as by the will that is either contained in them, or supposed in them; not as acts of the sensitive, but of the rational appetite (358).

Consideration doth, as it were, open the door between the head and the heart: the understanding having received truths, lays them up in the memory now, consideration is the conveyer of theme from thence to the affections (571).

Love Poem ????????? It's so nice to wake up in the morning all alone and not have to tell somebody you love them when you don't love them any more.

Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint rather than words. Ive been examining half-scraps of my childhood. They are pieces of distant life that have no form or meaning. They are things that just happened like lint.

The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster When you take your pill it's like a mine disaster. I think of all the people lost inside you.