Quotes About Emotions

So if whites see a black face shown at a subliminal speed, the amygdala activates.10 But if the face is shown long enough for conscious processing, the anterior cingulate and the "cognitive" dlPFC then activate and inhibit the amygdala. It's the frontal cortex exerting executive control over the deeper, darker amygdaloid response.

All stories are love stories

I knew I couldn't sleep with her. I don't know - in my small experience of women, I've found it to hard to sleep with them at such times. Times when you get impression that there's more to them than an opportunity. Sleeping with girls was great, sleeping with people was a bit more complicated. Maybe it was a bad thing, maybe a sign of my immaturity, but I knew that there was some kind of tenderness in it as well.

Si je revois un jour Sophie, je le lui dirai : rien n'est plus cruel que le silence puisqu'il laisse subsister l'espérance tout à la décevant toujours.

Whether you look at no men at all, or look at every single one - it comes to the same thing. You can throw yourself at their hearts, because you've gone mad from being always a stranger; from not being able to understand how you can even bear to hold their hands in your own any longer than you have to.

Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.

At last Hyacinth asked rather mournfully: Why do you keep on pushing me away? The note of unhappiness in that voice quite shocked him. How little one knows what one knows, or wants what one wants.

Ulrich] richtete sich auf den Trümmern seiner Kindheit nicht ohne Schwierigkeiten ein, doch auch mit ein wenig angenehmen Gefühls, das wie Nebel aus diesem Boden aufstieg.

Sonderbarerweise sprechen wir oft davon, aber es ist gerade [grenzenloses Empfinden], was wir lebenslang vermeiden.

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Tra gli uomini, i freddi calcolatori non hanno nella vita nemmeno la metà del successo dei temperamenti equilibrati, che provano davvero un profondo attaccamento per le persone e le relazioni che recano loro vantaggio

we are rational animals, but we are imperfectly rational. We are prone to making intellectual and moral mistakes and capable of behaving grossly unreasonably—especially when deflected by powerful emotions that run contrary to the demands of reasonableness.

Then after a long time Annie wasn't a little girl anymore. She was a big girl and I was so much in love with her that I lived in a dream. In the dream my heart seemed to be ready to burst, for it seemed that the whole world was inside it swelling to get out and be the world. But that summer came to an end. Time passed and nothing happened that we had felt so certain at one time would happen.

Good-bye, Lois, and I forgive for you everything I did to you.

Were we happy tonight because we were happy or because once, a long time back, we had been happy? Was our happiness tonight like the light of the moon, which does not come from the moon, for the moon is cold and has no light of its own, but is reflected light from far away?

But why should I lie here longer? I am not dead yet … And the world's way is yet long to go, And I love the world even in my anger, And love is a hard thing to outgrow. —Robert Penn Warren, from "American Portrait: Old Style," Now and Then: Poems, 1976-1978<.i> (Random House, 1978)

Good-bye, Lois, and I forgive you for everything I did to you.

I did not understand my complex of feeling. Particularly as she was saying, 'Yes, I'm sorry I ever met you. Ever. If I hadn't I wouldn't have to go through this Awfulness, the awfulest part being that I'll remember you. Always.' — Robert Penn Warren, from "Goodbye," Uncollected Poems 1943-1989, The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren , ed. John Burt (Louisiana State University Press, 1998)

Over all the millennia, only you have ever loved me, Thor. Only you have ever looked at me with affection in place of condescension. Why, then, am I killing you, and not the others? Because you stopped.

we must understand that suffering results from the stories we tell ourselves.

We can choose to feel angry, hurt, and burdened, or we can recognize that the experience, though painful, is a magnificent opportunity for enhanced self-understanding.

nuestras frecuencias individuales, ya sean de amor o de miedo, fluyen constantemente hacia el exterior, afectando por igual a los seres espirituales como a otras personas que pueden estar en cualquier parte, incluso lejos de nosotros.

Cuando tú, como alma eterna, planeaste tu vida actual, no te preocupaste por los conocimientos que podría adquirir tu mente. En lugar de eso, querías experimentar los sentimientos que generaría una vida en la dimensión física.

la vida es un viaje que va desde la cabeza hasta el corazón.