Quotes About Emotions

You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at this point. I mean, they're all good. A lot of tears when you lose, a lot of down times, but I can't remember any of them. They're all positive now. Even the bad times were good.

Yet many times I felt terribly alone and was convinced that no one else understood. And I still think that's true. When our pain becomes intense and endures for weeks without relief, no one else really knows. I'm not sure it's worthwhile for them to know what it's like. They care. That's what I think is important.

Just then I realized how badly I had missed the whole idea. I had failed them and myself. In trying to be strong for them, I had cheated them out of opportunities to strengthen me. Guilt overwhelmed me, because I could—at last—see their gifts to me.

Why do women love to talk about love?" Giorgio asks. "Why don't men, is more the question," Ana says.

Do you know about Irish Alzheimer's?" Malone asks. "No." "You forget everything but the grudges

You can no more cut yourself away from the past than you can cut out your own heart.

he also thinks it's true of most people, that the best part of ourselves is trapped inside the worst part of ourselves and just can't manage to get out.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real, too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. —Stephen King

Whatever clutter may be getting in your way during a conversation or communication, use the simple acronym HEAR to enter a more spacious and less defensive awareness. HEAR stands for: hold all assumptions; enter the emotional world; absorb and accept; and reflect, then respect. H

If you are feeling any kind of negative emotion, you can counteract it in the next sixty seconds by noticing something for which you're grateful.

We are the warden who possesses the key to the prison cell of anger and pain, so we can walk out into the sunlight again.

Human beings in stressful relationships will frequently behave in ways that contradict or even reverse their own most certain expectations.

Relationships are like powerful moods that people share.

And then there are the Odysseans. They form the middle ground between Dionysians and Apollonians. They tend to fluctuate between action and despair, between feeling and thinking. Most people are Odysseans.

The sclera—the white of the eye—affects attraction. No other primates have white scleras. Their scleras are dark, hiding their direction of gaze from predators, and from members of their own species—for whom a stare can be a threat.40 The white sclera of the human eye advertises gaze direction, making it a tool for social communication. It also advertises emotion and health.

Since he'd been born rich into a family that had been a long time rich, he'd never known the need to suppress his feelings, so he pouted completely and might even have stamped his foot again, except he sensed that a kind of lumpish stillness might better illustrate the sulk he'd fallen into.

The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.

Poetry gives the griever not release from grief but companionship in grief. Poetry embodies the complexity of feelings at their most intense and entangled, and therefore offers . . . the company of tears.

At the heart of all anger, all grudges, and all resentment, you'll always find a fear that hopes to stay anonymous.

If the tree doesn't hug you back, it's not a problem with the tree, it's a problem with your heart.

Through artistry, imagination not only allows one to express their creativity, but also their soul.

Fear and guilt are your enemies. If you let go of fear, fear lets go of you. If you release guilt, guilt will release you. How do you do that? By choosing to. It's that simple.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.