Quotes About Emotions

I wondered if Grover could still read my emotions, mixed up as they were.

Alex allowed herself the space of three heartbeats to grieve. I could count them, because that gross muscle between Pottery Barn's hands was still beating.

Laughter is a good way to hide pain- Leo Valdez

Suddenly he thought of Bob. Tell the sun and stars hello for me. Percy's smile melted. Bob and Damasen had sacrificed their lives so that Percy and Annabeth could sit here now, enjoying the sunlight and laughing with their friends. It wasn't fair.

Nico grinned, which hurt his face muscles. He wasn't used to making that expression.

That's – that's not fair,' Sadie said, her voice trembling. 'Tempting me with destruction.

Look, Percy, I'm not as smart as Annabeth. I'm not as brave as you. But I'm pretty good at reading emotions. You're glad your dad is alive. You feel good that he's claimed you, and part of you wants to make him proud. That's why you mailed Medusa's head to Olympus. You wanted him to notice what you'd done.

I am a monster. Don't say that. It is okay. I will be good monster. Then you will not have to be mad.

When she smiled at me, just for a moment she looked a little like Annabeth. Then like this television actress I used to have a crush on in fifth grade. Then…well, you get the idea.

The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.

Many of your relationship problems are not really relationship problems. They're personal problems that spill over into relationships.

You cannot keep yourself from talking about what you care about most. Jesus said, "A man's heart determines his speech.

We accept our humanity intellectually, but not emotionally. When faced with our own limitations, we react with irritation, anger, and resentment. We want to be taller (or shorter), smarter, stronger, more talented, more beautiful, and wealthier. We want to have it all and do it all, and we become upset when it doesn't happen. Then when we notice that God gave others characteristics we don't have, we respond with envy, jealousy, and self-pity.

We often forget that God has emotions, too. He feels things very deeply. The Bible tells us that God grieves, gets jealous and angry, and feels compassion, pity, sorrow, and sympathy as well as happiness, gladness, and satisfaction. God loves, delights, gets pleasure, rejoices, enjoys, and even laughs! 2

Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent.

Faith, not feelings, pleases God.

Focus on their feelings, not the facts. Begin with sympathy, not solutions.

I'm always so glad, Sylvie murmured, that I don't have to take a turn at being other people.

A lot of people thought Theo spoiled his girls, but how could you spoil a child—by neglect, yes, but not by love. You had to give them all the love you could, even though giving that much love could cause you pain and anguish and horror and, in the end, love could destroy you. Because they left, they went to university and husbands, they went to Canada and they went to the grave.

how overwhelming the feelings of love and terror, the desperate desire to protect. How much stronger would those feelings be if it were her own child? Perhaps too strong to bear.

An only child herself, she was frequently disturbed by the complexity of sibling relationships among her own children.

The novelty of hospital visiting was being slowly replaced by the fatigue of hospital visiting.

Aren't I happy?' Ursula puzzled. What do you think? Ursula didn't know. She wasn't sure that she had a yardstick against which to measure happiness or unhappiness. She had obscure memories of elation, of falling into darkness, but they belonged to that world of shadows and dreams that was ever-present and yet almost impossible to pin down.

They were both Filipino and laughed no matter what you said. Were the Philippines really such a happy place or were the carers just happy not to be there?