Quotes About Emotions

I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.

Falling in love and identifying birds have similar effects.

Pearl's shell?" "Because I want to be with a real friend," Echo said. "But . . . I'm not your friend. Not anymore," Shelly said slowly. Echo laughed. "I know better. You were only pretending to be mad so I would go to the party." Shelly's face turned red. "How did you find out? Did Kiki tell you?" "Don't blame Kiki," Echo said. "You are more important to me than any silly band.

Drugs aren't always about feeling good. Many times they're about feeling less.

Maybe I should stop thinking so much, and start feeling. Maybe thinking is over-rated.

It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished. Mrs. Miracle

But although she was with family and friends, she'd never felt more alone. She felt as if she'd lost a vital part of herself and she had - her heart.

Design is one of the few disciplines that is a science as well as an art. Effective, meaningful design requires intellectual, rational rigor along with the ability to elicit emotions and beliefs. Thus, designers must balance both the logic and lyricism of humanity every time they design something, a task that requires a singularly mysterious skill.

I closed the door. Other people got husbands and children; I got a bag of lettuce. I hurled myself on the floor and sobbed. The worst thing about trying to get myself undepressed were the days when it seemed like I hadn't made any progress at all.

I wish I could have torn him apart with my bare hands for trying to hurt you. Then put him back together and done it again.

Our own ways of mourning may be unique, but the human capacity to grieve deeply is something we share with other animals.

When you lose someone who's as close as your own skin, the only place you can find him again is hidden inside your memories.

When experiences or emotions become too overwhlming, the mind clevely encapsulates the material and stores it for safe-keeping. Many people respond this way in the face of trauma, but the additional step that occurs in this process, in the case of DID, is the formation of distinct ego states that carry the experience.

Body language is a very powerful tool... 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

Children adopted as infants have been shown to enjoy higher than average rates of secure attachment with their parents. Adopted children may also feel a bond with their birthparents, although they may never have formed an attachment with them. Their shared biologic and emotional connection with birthparents creates a bond.

When he was very excited, [John Singer] Sargent would rush at his canvas with his brush poised for attack, yelling, 'Demons, demons, demons!' When he was particularly angry or frustrated, he expressed these feelings with 'Damn,' the only curse he allowed himself. He once had the expletive inscribed on a rubber stamp so he could have the satisfaction of pounding it on a piece of paper.

Everything makes me angry, unless it makes me sad.

It's odd—no matter how you feel about a place, it's as though you exchange something with it. It keeps a little bit of you, and you keep a little bit of it." "I know," he said. "And the thing you mostly get to keep is leaving.

They were so pretty," she said. And then she died.

Then I made the cardinal mistake of showing and telling him and her how I felt. That pushed them closer together.

I thought she liked you now. I've seen her kiss you and she says your name the special way she says Rina's and mine - like it tastes good.

But precisely because love is so strong, we are, especially in our youth...usually not strong enough to maintain a straight course. —Vincent van Gogh

Uncle Cor once had asked Vincent if he would feel anything for a woman or a girl who was beautiful, 'but I said I would have more feeling for and would prefer to be involved with one who was ugly or old or impoverished or in some way unhappy, who has acquired understanding and a soul through experience of life and trial and error, or sorrow.' -Vincent Van Gogh

But sometimes a person who seems easy is one whose calm outside belies a troubled and turbulent inside.