Quotes About Emotions

Real acting is never personal.

If you want to fall in love, you can't hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You'll be hurt sometimes, but if you don't, you'll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind of woman you expected to fall in love with, but it wont matter, you'll love her for exactly what she is.

They stared at each other, wanting each other, drawn to each other, but their silent shout of love went unheard in the roar of misunderstanding, and the clatter of culturally ingrained beliefs.

If you want to fall in love, you can't hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You'll be hurt sometimes, but if you don't, you'll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind of woman you expected to fall in love with, but it wont matter, you'll love her for exactly what she is.

She loved him, more than she could ever find words for, but this love he felt for her was not quite the same. It wasn't so much stronger, as more demanding, more insistent. As though he feared he would lose that which he had finally won.

Kids need to learn that you need to feel bad sometimes. We learn through experience, and we learn especially through bad experiences.

Wanting to feel safe all of the time can also lead to wanting to protect against emotional upset—the concern with "emotional safety" somewhat unique to iGen. That can include preventing bad experiences, sidestepping situations that might be uncomfortable, and avoiding people with ideas different from your own. That's where things get dicey—both for iGen and for the older generations struggling to understand them.

In the next decade we may see more young people who know just the right emoji for a situation—but not the right facial expression.

A stunning 31% more 8th and 10th graders felt lonely in 2015 than in 2011, along with 22% more 12th graders

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow.

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart; grief, two tear-glands; and pride, two bent knees.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.

We shall adopt an analogous formula, with the reservation that feelings and cognitive configurations do not depend solely on the existing "field," but also on the whole previous history of the acting subject.

I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.

When More had said that a man who cannot restrain his passions is essentially cruel, he spoke the truth.

What was the good of restrained laughter; it made a mockery of the entire practice of laughing.

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.