Quotes About Emotions

Young love is common, but that doesn't mean it's not precious.

She could see the pollution in them, bleaching their skin white and giving them red sores on their backs. And although she smiled, her heart was breaking.

Ik herinner me hem wel, Holly. Ik herinner het me allemaal. Vooral jou. Het is een hele troost dat jij hier bij me bent.' … 'Dat is heel lief van je, Artemis,' zei ze na even te hebben nagedacht. 'Maar je hoeft voor mij niet te doen alsof.

Vern was alternately amused or irked by humans' reaction to his appearance. On this occasion, he experienced both emotions within a second of each other. The first guy blurted, Hail, Satan. Which was presumably a last ditch attempt to change saviours to appease the devil heading for him.

Problem was that the blues used to creep over him slow: a gradual trough, then a slow climb up the other side. But now his mind knew what to expect and ramped things up straightaway, from zero to critical in a matter of minutes.

Arguing with real people was marginally better than getting upset with sheets of paper.

Koboi before, and I will do it again. This determination was fuelled by sadness.

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee. ~ Epictetus

We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.

So what oppresses and scares us? It is our own thoughts, obviously, What overwhelms people when they are about to leaves friends, family, old haunts and their accustomed way of life? Thoughts.

Those who are well constituted in the body endure both heat and cold: and so those who are well constituted in the soul endure both anger and grief and excessive joy and the other affects.

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives to them.

People with a strong physical constitution can tolerate extremes of hot and cold; people of strong mental health can handle anger, grief, joy and the other emotions.

No one is ever unhappy because of someone else.

Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things:

It is not events that disturb people, it is their judgements concerning them.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

28. If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on his way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you?

No one can steal your peace of mind unless you let them.

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

What upsets people is not things themselves but their judgements about these things.