Quotes About Emotions

I've learned .... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.

I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone - or something - is thinking or feeling.

Every arena of life intersects with what's going on in our hearts. Everything passes through on its way to wherever it's going. Everything.

Theology isn't what drove them to their...theology." author writes on dealing with the embittering experience of those who protect a wounded place with abstract arguments.

That would hurt the one I love the most

The roots of envy always run deeper and wider than the relationship in which it surfaces. In

Why does every relationship end the same way?" In most cases the answer is, "Because every relationship started the same way.

As Paul Naeger reminds us in his excellent article Red Flag Decision Making, Emotions serve a purpose, informing us what to do. If our brain comes across something and categorizes it as a "red flag," we will be notified through thoughts and feelings created by emotion. This "red flag" alerts us to pay attention. Our emotions act as a cueing system notifying us to pay attention and take action.

Doing it anyway" is really the only way to ensure that fear doesn't rob you of an opportunity. "Doing it anyway" is the essence of courage. Courage is the willingness to move in a direction in spite of the emotions and thoughts that bid you to do otherwise.

If a teenage guy tends to overreact when he fails, there is a pretty good chance he thinks his significance is based on success.

It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain.

Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad.

People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television -- you don't feel anything.

People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like you're watching television -- you don't feel anything.

Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

Lo peor que tiene la tristeza es que es ciega; y lo peor que tiene la cólera es que ve demasiado.

And I'd add that every good thing has its disadvantages, and the disadvantage of love is precisely that it leaves room for nothing else, not even the prudence of ferrets.

El corazón de un joven tiene más ímpetu para la vida y el amor y para la enfermedad y el odio.

Lo peor de la tristeza es que ciega y lo peor de la cólera es que ve demasiado.

Suddenly the reader's eyes were filled with tears, and a loving voice whispered in his ear: -Why are you crying if everything in that book isn't true?- And the reader replied: -I know; but what I feel is real.

I think we're addicted to being triggered