Quotes About Emotions

Meditation provides the tools not only to abide more comfortably in the present, but also to observe rather than engage with unhappiness-creating thoughts.

Impermanence. It is the nature of all things, especially relationships. They are certainly not a true cause of happiness.

Pain is inevitable," the Dalai Lama continued. "Suffering is optional.

Both happiness and unhappiness arise from thought. Our challenge is to develop those thoughts that create happiness and avoid those that cause us to suffer. So much of the time, we are having negative thoughts without realizing what is happening because we're so caught up in them. Or because we can't help ourselves. But with mindfulness, it's possible to become more aware. To observe what we are thinking, and if necessary, to change.

The stress isn't coming from 'out there.' Mainly it is coming from our mind.

If nothing around us has any genuine substance, then all the happiness or unhappiness we feel comes from our mind. All qualities, attractive and unattractive, are a product of mind alone.

First, people were not thinking about what they were doing 47 per cent of the time. Second, people were unhappier when their minds were wandering than they were not. And third, what people were thinking was a better predictor of their happiness than what they were doing.

Like depression, loneliness arises from unhappiness creating thoughts feeding into the insula, deepening the negative spiral of thoughts and feelings.

When one is angry, the first person to suffer is oneself. No one who is angry has a happy, peaceful mind.

anger causes so much misery both for the person on the receiving end, as well as for the person experiencing it.

This proves that it is not so much the circumstances of our lives that make us happy or unhappy but the way we see them.

Thoughts and feelings manifest in the bodies of felines as much as in humans.

Like characters in good books or movies, families and friends don't communicate with one another in composed prose. It's all action. Even the words we use- the movie characters' dialogue- are action. And it's almost all improvised.

Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.

I love him, she thought. I'm just not in love with him and also I don't love him. I've tried, I've strained to love him but I can't. I am building a life with a man I don't love, and I don't know what to do about it.

Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.

And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.

Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary.

From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost . . . .

Sorry' he said. 'No, I'm sorry.' 'What are you sorry for?' 'Rattling on like a mad old cow. I'm sorry, I'm tired, bad day, and I'm sorry for being so...boring.' 'You're not that boring.' 'I am, Dex. God, I swear I bore myself.' 'Well, you don't bore me.' He took her hand in his. 'You could never bore me. You're one in a million, Em.

perhaps grief is as much regret for what we have never had as sorrow for what we have lost.

I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.

Why can't you just love me? Why can't you just be in love with me? You were once, weren't you? In the beginning?

I have always been well liked, I think, always well regarded and respected, but having few enemies is not the same as having many friends, and there was no denying that I was, if not "lonely", more solitary than I'd hoped to be at that time.