Quotes About Emotions

He that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow.

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

Every time you write a comment, you should grimace and feel the failure of your ability of expression.

Love God and trust your feelings. Be loyal to them. Don't betray them.

Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.

Politicians play on our fears to manipulate us.

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.

Words like anchors, tethering boats of memory that would otherwise be scuttled by the storm.

To put it crudely, in cortical democracies citizens reason together; in limbic democracies they feel together.

I made a fatuous remark about how badly people behave when they're frightened

And don't you dare say you love me, because I know that's not true. You don't know the difference between being in love and conducting yourself like you're in love. It's nice you picked me, but it could have been anybody, and believe me, Tyler, it would have been just as disappointing, one way or another.

You don't have to be nice all the time. Get angry once in a while. You're entitled.

By the time she reached her apartment in Clear Lake

I do know, however, that men become bigger-hearted and better lovers once they get the suspicion that their mistresses care less about them. When a man believes himself to be the one and only lover in a woman's life, he'll whistle and go his way.

In the work environment the stakes are suddenly raised. People are no longer struggling for good grades or social approval, but for survival. Under such pressure, they reveal qualities of their characters that they normally try to conceal. They manipulate, compete, and think of themselves first. We are blindsided by this behavior and our emotions are churned up even more than before, locking us into the Naïve Perspective.

a state of balance—a clear understanding of why we feel the way we do, conscious of our impulses so that we can think without being secretly compelled by our emotions.

what if we could look within and see the source of our more troubling emotions and why they drive our behavior, often against our own wishes?

The Laws of Human Nature, 1: Master Your Emotional Self—The Law of Irrationality

It is often your own actions that stir up envy, your own unawareness. By becoming conscious of those actions and qualities that create envy, you can take the teeth out of it before it nibbles you to death.

Once envy eats away at someone, everything you do only makes it grow, and day by day it festers inside him. Eventually he will attack.

The first step toward becoming rational is to understand our fundamental irrationality. There are two factors that should render this more palatable to our egos: nobody is exempt from the irresistible effect of emotions on the mind, not even the wisest among us; and to some extent irrationality is a function of the structure of our brains and is wired into our very nature by the way we process emotions. Being irrational is almost beyond our control.

Our continual connection to social media makes us prone to new forms of viral emotional effects. These are not media designed for calm reflection. With their constant presence, we have less and less mental space to step back and think.

If you are trying to destroy an enemy who has hurt you, far better to keep him off-guard by feigning friendliness than showing your anger.