Quotes About Emotions

You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love.

Please do not think for a second, as some people do, that Love is primarily an affair of the emotions. It is not: it never ought to be. It is an affair of the will: it is an act of choice.

His emotions had been stormed, his intellect silenced, his memory of grace obscured, a spiritual nausea had sickened his soul, yet the secret fortress of the will had, in an agony, held fast the doors and refused to cry out and call Felsenburgh king.

No one on their death bed wishes they would've been meaner.

Hatfield and her colleagues sum up emotional contagion research with an Arabic proverb: "A wise man associating with the vicious becomes an idiot.

The first diagnostic question follows from the late writer Maya Angelou's assertion that "at the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.

We were taught that the more irate the debtor—the more he or she screamed, swore, and insulted us—the more long pauses we should take before answering questions and the more slowly and calmly we should talk.

When a guest is rude, angry, swearing loudly, or visibly upset, cast members not only try to calm him or her; they are adept at reducing the exposure of other guests to such un-Disney malice and misery.

But flattery, smiles, and other signs of appreciation (even if not entirely sincere) can be useful for convincing volatile and vindictive people to tamp down their inner angst and anger—so they won't take it out on you.

As we saw in chapter 5, research on schoolyard and workplace bullying shows that people who ruminate about getting even, rather than letting it go, suffer negative effects including anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.

Negative silence is the silence of a man in pain. Negative silence tells you that you are being the "wrong" silent type. Your silence keeps you locked in and others locked out. Your loyalty to an image and to your silence demands a high price. The silent son makes his monthly payments loyally, but he's never paid up; the quieter he becomes, the more he owes.

Stress can bring out your unresolved issues. Like many silent sons, you may be at a low boiling point but not realize it. When stress occurs, your reactions are extreme and you don't understand why.

Family life demands emotional doseness. For many silent sons emotional closeness is stressful, even if they want it more than anything else.

The silent treatment can be very frustrating to us, not to mention the effect it has on others. Most of us know when we are doing it; few of us know how to stop it. I buried my feelings for years, but if a feeling is strong enough it mill eventually surface. My family has paid the price.

Along the way there was one thing that held me back, as it does so many other silent sons. This one thing burdens us like a heavy unwanted blanket. Unless we kick it off, it will destroy us. This one thing is—anger.

We can leave our children no inheritance more valuable than the legacy of God's Word. It gives us clearer thoughts, steadier nerves, healthier emotions, purer habits, and better environments.

Emotions come and go; attitudes come and grow.

Memorizing Scripture gives us: 1. Clearer thoughts. 2. Steadier nerves. 3. Healthier emotions. 4. Purer habits. 5. Happier homes. 6. Greater respect. 7. Eternal optimism. Isn't that worth at least five minutes a day?

The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.

Gypsies make difficult friends for ordinary people, and he was seething of a gypsy.

Y vuelves a atrapar mi tristeza para esconderla en tu bolsillo, para alejarla de mi… De nuevo has sembrado el jardín de mis pesadillas con nuevos sueños

Francesca was feeling good feelings, old feelings, poetry and music feelings.

I want to keep it forever. I want to love you the way I do now the rest of my life. Don't you understand... we'll lose it if we leave. I can't make an entire life disappear to start a new one. All I can do is try to hold onto to both. Help me. Help me not lose loving you.

maudlin makes it difficult to enter the realm of gentleness