Quotes About Emotions

acknowledging all that has been lost and learning to live with that loss. It would be too soon for Keith to be able to accept this situation. He can acknowledge the reality of the loss

Tony's wife, Carol, would always get mad at

You may find that your God is strong enough to handle your anger, strong enough to feel compassion and love for you, even in the midst of your anger at him.

La conclusión básica que saqué de todo esto, y que no ha cambiado, es que todos los seres humanos, al margen de nuestra nacionalidad, riqueza o pobreza, tenemos necesidades, deseos y preocupaciones similares. En realidad, nunca he conocido a nadie cuya mayor necesidad no sea el amor.

As you grow stronger, it may return from time to time, but that is how grief works. A

The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Say It Before It's Too Late

when you consider they didn't grow up together.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.

With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, Half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, And flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat... or a girl?

I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me.

Shrinks will tell you there are only five problems: sex, money, intimacy, trust, children. No, six: add parents, as in in-laws, Alzheimer's, inheritance. And of course they are all related

I like to listen to sad music when I'm sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry is the only thing that can make you feel better.

You know before you know, of course. You are bending over the dryer, pulling out the still-warm sheets, and the knowledge walks up your backbone. You stare at the man you love and you are staring at nothing; he is gone before he is gone.

People are stupid. Why are they so stupid? There is an algorithm for the way humans were designed: love and be loved. Follow it and you're happy. Fight against it and you're not. It's so simple, it's hard to understand.

No one could ever be for me what [he] had been because he had known me when, and that had kept me away from the true reality of my years.

Nothing helped until the day she took a tablet and pencil into the basement and moved the event out of her and onto paper, where it was reshaped into a kind of simple equation: loss equaled the need to love again, more.

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels. Marsha thinks about this. Then she says, Not true. I know, Tom says, and sighs.

Who doesn't long for one more time of seeing someone they've loved and lost? And yet what would you say, what would you do, if it were possible?

I tell you, I will never understand the mystery of love. A woman comes to a man because she wants only him; then she cannot bear the sound of air moving in and out of his nostrils. She cannot bear the sight of his shadow upon the pavement!

And she finally told Nola that she was so worried about whether she could love two children, about whether she could make room in her heart for as much love as she felt for Bobby. Wasn't it betraying Bobby, to love another child? And Nola told her what her sister Patricia had said, after having her second. Patricia said she felt like she'd grown a second heart.