Quotes About Emotions

She had a nice laugh, even when she was using it as a weapon against him.

But when you've lived in a place this long, no walk can occur solely in the present. Every street, every building, appears to you encrusted with memories, with perspectives that betray your age, your cynicism, your sentimentality, or your lack of feeling where you should feel something.

I was in love with everything- I wanted to look with love at the angry people so that their eyes would be forced to respond; and I wanted to bring gifts to the envious and tell them that I am worthless.

It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.

Well, it's like, uh holding on to a hurt- uh, hugging a hurt, one teacher calls it. Well, it, uh, like, just creates more hurt -Bindi

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Silence is the hardest scream

Argh? Pathetic and inarticulate. Nice combination. Your mothers must be so proud.

Very well. I understand. Just ... shut up!

All negative thoughts – anger, fear, passion, compulsive craving -- tend to be fast. If we could see the mind when it is caught in such thoughts, we would really see it racing. But positive thoughts like love, patience, tenderness, compassion, and understanding are slow - not turbulent, rushing brooks of thinking, so to speak but broad rivers that are calm, clear, and deep.

As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings, and fits of emotions begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that choices are possible: we can say yes, or we can say no. ... All we are is the result of what we have thought. By changing our mode of thinking, we can remake ourselves completely.

When people used to complain to the Buddha that they were upset, telling him, Our children upset us; our partner agitates us, his simple reply would be, You are not upset because of your children or your partner; you are upset because you are upsettable.

Anything that tends to make us elated is inevitably going to throw us into depression.

HSPs make such good targets because we react so strongly.

The point is best made by Aristotle, who supposedly asked, "Would you rather be a happy pig or an unhappy human?" HSPs prefer the good feeling of being very conscious, very human, even if what we are conscious of is not always cause for rejoicing.

Extremely intense love is often rejected by the beloved just because it is so demanding and unrealistic.

to have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.

Although not conscious, everyone senses the potent sensitivity or volatility under the surface in the NPD individual.

Without parental grounding, she lacks the help she requires to process her intense emotional responses or the distorted versions of her idealized self. Stalled on the threshold of selfhood, the psyche of the child becomes increasingly preoccupied with her external self.

Antes, quando eu estava contente com as coisas, eu era feliz. Mas agora, com o Jamie... Eu estou contente por ter tapetes, quadros, coisas boas para comer, que eu posso andar e correr, ir para a escola e tudo mais. Mas quanto mais eu estou feliz por mim mesma, mais triste eu sou por ele.

And David leaped, and laughed, and loved it all, nor was any of it strange to him. The birds, the treed, the sun, the brook, the scurrying little creatures of the forest of his. But the man- the man did not leap or laughed, though he, too, loved it all. The man was afraid.

La desdicha, como el dolor físico, iguala los minutos. Los días se convierten en el mismo día, los actos en el mismo acto y las personas en un sólo personaje inútil.

No seas estúpida! —exclamó. Su hermana lo irritaba.

Desde la calle se oían las risas de Rosa y Rafaela, las hermanas gemelas, queridas, las dos, del teniente coronel Cruz. Eran norteñas y volubles y cuando se enojaban tiraban sus zapatos a la calle. Si