Quotes About Emotions

Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.

It seemed to Alabama that, reaching her goal, she would drive the devils that had driven her - that, in proving herself, she would achieve that peace which she imagined went only in surety of one's self - that she would be able, through the medium of the dance, to command her emotions, to summon love or pity or happiness at will, having provided a channel through which they might flow. She drove herself mercilessly, and the summer dragged on.

Scott-there's nothing in the world I want but you-and your precious love. All the material things are nothing. I'd just hate to live in a sordid, colorless existence-because you'd soon love less-and less-and I'd do anything-anything-to keep your heart for my own-I don't want to live-I want to love first and live incidentally.

And, Joey, if you ever want to know about the japonicas and the daisy fields it will be alright that you have forgotten because I will be able to tell you about how it felt to be feeling that way you cannot quite remember – that will be for the time when something happens years from now that reminds you of now.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the hearth can hold.

We couldn't go on indefinitely being swept off our feet.

It is very melancholy without you. I love you more all the time and since I did not think there was any more it's an overwhelming and frightening state to be in.

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.

Alabama did not want to leave Paris where they were so unhappy.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

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

Your suffering is something you choose. Experience it fully. Without it you will not achieve personal growth and higher consciousness.

My goal as a writer is to move people, to make them laugh and cry, and I'm gratified when I succeed. But I didn't invent the humor in recovery. It's already there. There's a tremendous amount of laughter at a good AA meeting.

Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.

The judge took into account "the profound despair of a woman unable to give life…" As if a man couldn't be as deeply affected by the lack of a child, too.

Is anyone gonna invent a Richter scale to measure the magnitude of emotions in a young girl's heart?

Words could never express the infinite sadness of a used condom, removed from your already half-limp dick by an expert hand, which then strangles it with a precise, automatic gesture.

Maribeau said that "none but men of strong passions are capable of rising to greatness." Tennyson said, "The happiness of a man in his life does not consist in the absence but in the mastering of his passions." Franklin said that "he is a governor that governs his passions and he is a servant that serves them.

Feelings follow actions. So when you don't really want to or feel like doing what needs to be done—do it and then you will feel like doing it." —ZIG ZIGLAR

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth. The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker. They are more easily excited; they are more violent and apparent, but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in mature life.

Memorize a simple strategy: Don't jump to speak, ask questions and listen, watch your anger thermometer and keep the temperature down.

Self-absorbed people experience a lot of disappointment and anger, and they often have a hair trigger when it comes to accusing God or anyone else who doesn't meet their demands. We often hear them say, "That's not fair!

Critical words cut like a knife. And sarcasm is the same knife with a pearl handle.

People don't care what you know until they know that you care.