Quotes About Emotions

The heart of the matter is a matter of the heart.

What you do with your body sets the tone for everything else. Physical health influences your mental health, your spiritual health, your emotional health, your relational health, and even your financial health.

El temor es una prisión en la que usted mismo se mete. El amor bien formado hace desaparecer el temor.

And children are still the way you were ...as a child, sad and happy in just the same way and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children, and the grownups are nothing, and their dignity has no value.

THE HOUSE SLAVE Those days I lie on my cot, shivering in the early heat, and as the fields unfold to whiteness, and they spill like bees among the fat flowers, I weep. It is not yet daylight.

All happy families are alike, while all unhappy families are unhappy in their own way.

Sex makes monkeys out of all of us. If you don't give in to it, you wind up a cold, unfeeling bastard. If you do, you spend the rest of your life picking up the pieces. . . .

I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.

Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal. Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.

I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.

Humans are fundamentally irrational. They use what precious rationality they have justifying their irrational behavior. A

I realized that liking or not liking someone was irrelevant. It was the time in history that you shared. A time binds you to another person just as passions tie to you to the dead.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.

Perhaps his anger was intensified because he saw her getting pleasure from something that was beyond his reach.

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on their face

Mr Hemingway says a lot of things I don't understand,' Matilda said, 'Especially about men and women. But I loved it all the same.' 'A fine writer will always make you feel that', Mrs Phelps said. 'And don't worry about the bits you can't understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

The young man clasped his hands together tight on his lap, hugging himself with his elbows. It seemed as though suddenly he was feeling very cold.

The Psalms show us what healthy spiritual life looks like. You name everything that's happening inside of you. You give it language and expression, You articulate exactly what the desolation feels like. If you don't drag it up and give it words, then it's buried down in your being somewhere. And it will come out in other ways. Unhealthy, destructive ways. You'll keep it bottled up. And you'll be miserable.

people are rarely persuaded by arguments, but more often by experiences.

When you're fighting, it's absolutely crucial to keep remembering that they're trying to figure it out just like you are.

We rob ourselves of immeasurable joy when we compare what we do know about ourselves with what we don't know about someone else.

So when people say they don't believe in hell and they don't like the word "sin," my first response is to ask, "Have you sat and talked with a family who just found out their child has been molested?

The intellect has a way of building a fence around the heart, cutting us off from what we know to be true in a way that is hard to prove according to the categories in which proof matters.