Quotes About Emotion

We walked the rest of the way home without saying another word.

Cat-food breath or not, I was thrilled to have Tigger back - and Logan, too.

thought for sure someone would screech or gasp or fall off the bed.

Kristy had a cow.

But it can be liberating to see how thoughts pull the levers of emotion—and how negative emotions in turn set the stage for patterns of thinking that keep them active and coloring one's mind.

why it is worse to lose something than not to gain it.

There is now a large literature on the psychological benefits of meditation. Different techniques produce long-lasting changes in attention, emotion, cognition, and pain perception, and these correlate with both structural and functional changes in the brain.

stewing about something in the past you can't do anything about anyway.

Stoicism doesn't mean repressing emotion and shunning pleasure, I learned, but—in essence—focusing on what is in our power and letting go of everything we can't control.

Kindness is a much more crushing force than anger.

A man can reach the heights of the Super-Man by entering the field of supra-sexuality, by knowing how to enjoy love, by knowing how to enjoy a woman, by knowing how to live with joy or with more emotion and less useless reasoning.

Emotion is what counts: it is more valuable than anything.

I burn for you. Do you know what that is, lass? To feel a yearning that makes you burn both inside and out?

She nestled against him, already limp and relaxed. With a tremulous little sigh, she curled her fist against his chest. Aidan had to force himself to relax. He held himself very still, tempering the desire that churned and clamored in his chest, twisting and turning restlessly. He was still shocked by it, by its strength, its persistence, for it grew more rousing with every moment spent with her.

I am left with a feeling and I cannot tell if it's emptiness or fullness.

I feel racing and suspension all at once.

To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Novel: A small tale, generally of love.

Let Art and Genius weep.