Quotes About Emotions

Emotional Channeling Technique #1: Ask Courageous Questions

The people who avoid communicating their emotions are the very people we need to avoid.

sees. Glaciers could cleave continents, and the pain would still live somewhere in the secret chambers of the heart. For the lucky ones, scar tissue forms, and the passage of time builds more and more tissue until the pain is simply part of a person's makeup, part of who he or she is—the grain in the wood.

It is a clever "wile" of Satan to tempt men to think that they cannot do what God requires because they do not feel like doing it, or that they must do what they feel like doing and cannot help themselves.

Love is self-giving; fear is self-protecting.3 Love moves toward others; fear shrinks away from them. But the counselor must remember (and persuade the counselee that) love is the stronger since it is able to "cast out" fear. In dealing with fear, nothing else possesses the same expulsive power.

grieving was a human process with known stages and unknown timetables.

Arrancar lágrimas al público es fácil comparado con el objetivo número dos: hacer que decidan lo que tú quieres.

Este capítulo te ha ofrecido recursos básicos para determinar el resultado de una discusión: Establece tu objetivo personal. Establece tus objetivos para tu audiencia. ¿Quieres cambiar su estado de ánimo, su opinión o su disposición a realizar lo que tú desees?

And the very, very worst thing you can do to angry cats or people is tell them to calm down.

And the very, very worst thing you can do to angry cats or people is tell them to calm down. Telling someone to calm down implies that his anger is his own fault. Anyone who's angry believes that someone else, not him, is to blame.

When being bullied or heckled, refuse to show the emotion the bully wants. Gain the audience's sympathy by trying to look calm and above it all.

And if he thinks you're to blame, and you're the one telling him to calm down…well! Keep a respectful distance from his claws.

How do you get a human to think you're caring? The obvious way is actually to care.

Así, cuando te enfrentes a un hombre enfadado, muéstrate serio y preocupado; no le grites «¡Venga, amargado!» Cuando una niña parece triste, la empatía implica parecer triste también; no significa decirle alegremente: «¡Anímate!»

Gottman descubrió que las parejas que habían seguido casadas durante esos nueve años discutían prácticamente lo mismo que las que habían acabado en divorcio.

Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.

Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed

Things happen, people change,' is what Amanda said. For her that covered it. You wanted an explanation, and ending that would assign blame and dish up justice. You considered violence and you considered reconciliation . But what you are left with is a premonition of the way your life will fade behind you, like a book you have read too quickly, leaving a dwindling trail of images and emotions, until all you can remember is a name.

But what you are left with is a premonition of the way your life will fade behind you, like a book you have read too quickly, leaving a dwindling trail of images and emotions, until all you can remember is a name.

Everything becomes symbol and irony when you have been betrayed.

All relaxation does is allow the truth to be felt. The mind is cleared, like a dirty window wiped clean, and the magnitude of what we might ordinarily take for granted inspires tears.

Poetry is a language adequate to one's experience.

Sorrow never heals. We simply take comfort in the fact that our pain seems to fade.