Quotes About Emotions

Even when we are screaming and throwing things, we are friends. Who is the man and who is the woman? Sometimes neither of us knows. The marriage is androgynous -- like the closest friendships. It will keep.

Being loved by the world is no substitute for having been loved by one person when you were small

Ce matou-là ne fait pas de différences entre les câlins français et les câlins allemands, murmura Bernstein. Il n'a rien compris à la guerre. - C'est-à-dire qu'il a tout compris.

Szcz??cie, którego wyczekujemy, potrafi zburzy? to, które wÅ'aÅ›nie prze?ywamy

It doesn't matter,' Monsieur Ibrahim said. 'Your love for her belongs to you. It is yours. Even if she refuses it, she cannot change it. She isn't benefiting from it, that's all. What you give, Momo, is yours forever. What you keep is lost for all time!

Nu cumva dragostea ?ine de un proces material, chimic, de un amestec de molecule care s? poat? fi reprodus ?tiin?ific? Sau e un miracol spiritual?

PoÈ›i fi st?pân pe ceea ce gândeÈ™ti, dar niciodat? pe ceea ce simÈ›i.

A ne petrece viaÈ›a regretând un sentiment pierdut nu ne dezvolt? capacitatea de a iubi, ci ne închide în faÈ›a unor noi emoÈ›ii, cultivându-ne am?r?ciunea. ÎnmugureÈ™te, oare, prietenia?

Tu agonises parce que tu as tout recouvert, tes émotions, tes problèmes, ton histoire. Tu ne sais pas qui tu es, donc tu ne te construit pas à partir de toi

La felicità non consiste nel mettersi al riparo dalla sofferenza, ma di integrarla al tessuto della nostra esistenza.

Il ne s'agissait ni d'un coup de foudre amoureux, ni d'un coup de foudre amical, mais d'un coup de foudre ... comment dire ... humain.

Gdy rozstajemy siÄ™ z osobami, które bardzo polubiliÅ›my, lgnie do nich jakaÅ› sekretna melancholia.

Parfois, j'en viens à souhaiter qu'arrive très vite le jour où ma mère sera redevenue un nouveau-né pour que je la serre dans mes bras. Je lui dirais enfin combien je l'aime. Un baiser d'adieu pour moi. Pour elle un baiser de bienvenue...

M'sieur Ibrahim, quand je dis que c'est un truc de gens riches, le sourire, je veux dire que c'est un truc pour les gens heureux. - Eh bien, c'est là que tu te trompes. C'est sourire, qui rend heureux. [- M. Ibrahim, when I say a smile is a rich people thing, I mean it's a happy people thing. - Well, that's where you're wrong. Smiling is what makes you happy.]

Happiness isn't about hiding from suffering, but about integrating it into the fabric of our existence.

People do not see that the main question is not : Am I loved? which is to a large extent the question : Am I approved of? Am I protected? Am I admired? The main question is: Can I love?

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet, which fails so regularly, as love.

People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love—or to be loved by—is difficult.

Pleasure and thrill are conducive to sadness after the so-called peak has been reached; for the thrill has been experienced, but the vessel has not grown.

Die meisten Menschen sehen das Problem der Liebe in erster Linie als das Problem, selbst geliebt zu werden, statt zu lieben und lieben zu können.

The value judgments we make determine our actions, and upon their validity rests our mental health and happiness.

The development of man's intellectual capacities has far outstripped the development of his emotions. Man's brain lives in the twentieth century; the heart of most men lives still in the Stone Age. The majority of men have not yet acquired the maturity to be independent, to be rational, to be objective. They need myths and idols to endure the fact that man is all by himself, that there is no authority which gives meaning to life except man himself.

The assumption that the problem of love is the problem of an object , not the problem of a faculty . People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by- is difficult.