Quotes About Emotions

Kahneman found that when counting moments of joy and moments of drudgery, bringing up a child turns out to be a rather unpleasant affair.

She sat like that for a long time, never taking her eyes off her grandmother, conjuring up cherished memories of their time together, each remembrance more precious than the last. Time seemed to evaporate in the haze of candlelight, reminiscences, and tears. She didn't know how long she had been sitting there, but she had just gotten out of her chair and reached for another tissue when she thought she heard a noise.

I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.

I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

Your anger is a gift.

Nowadays I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.

We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

Întâmpl?ri, fericite ?i nefericite, care au lovit adânc, poate de moarte câteva biete inimi omene?ti, vai, atât de omene?ti!

To?i iubim. To?i purt?m în inimile noastre florile iubirii ?i, mai pe urm?, dup? ce iubirile au murit, în acelea?i inimi purt?m cenu?a iubirilor... Cenu?a rece a iubirilor moarte...

Isn't it clear that bliss and envy--they are the numerator and the denominator of the fraction known as happiness.

And Homo sapiens only then becomes man in the complete sense of the word, when his punctuation includes no question marks, only exclamation points, commas, and periods. And you, being children, may swallow without crying all the bitter things I am to give you only if they be coated with the syrup of adventures.

The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.

You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.

It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for man.

Like most addictions, sex is used to take away pain or to temporarily ignore it. If you are not in control of your life, but your life is controlled by your sexual urges, then you need to seek help.

Tevin, rarely does it matter what's actual or factual when it comes to women and how they think. All that matters is what they perceive.

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

I hate birthdays.

Jealousy is an unjust and stifling thing.

Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.

In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.

I don't want to live— I want to love first, and live…incidentally.

nobody h?s ever me?sured, not even poets, how much the he?rt c?n hold.

Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.