Quotes About Feelings

When I was growing up, the top movies dealt with grown-up, complex emotions.

Guru always wanted to do what he called a 'chick record.' By coincidence, every time we did one, he was either breaking up with one or with a new girl that he loved.

I definitely have guys that I'm friends with that I have a crush on, and you don't want to ruin the friendship.

Half the time during the day, I'm just depressed.

I love you," he whispered. "I hope you don't mind.

I think the tingles are important. They are real, and I am in favor of their survival. But they are not the basis for a satisfactory marriage. I am not suggesting that on should marry without the tingles. Those warm, excited feelings, the chill bumps, that sense of acceptance, the excitement of the touch that make up the tingles serve as the cherry on top of the sundae. But you cannot have a sundae with only the cherry.

Almost never do two people fall in love on the same day, and almost never do they fall out of love on the same day.

Remember, emotions themselves are neither good nor bad. They are simply our psychological responses to the events of life.

A supportive environment and attitude will help our children learn at home. Children are more emotional than cognitive—that is, they remember feelings more readily than they do facts. This means that your children remember how they felt in a particular situation much more easily than they recall the details of the event. For instance, a child listening to a story will remember exactly how she felt long after she forgets the lesson.

Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offense up against the offender.

Being in love is an emotional and obsessive experience. However, emotions change and obsessions fade. Research indicates that the average life span of the "in love" obsession is two years.1 For some it may last a bit longer; for some, a bit less.

When we choose to love in spite of our feelings, we find negative feelings will dissipate, and feelings of intimacy return. Loving acts create loving feelings.

By the time we reach adulthood, many of us have learned to deny our feelings. We are no longer in touch with our emotional selves.

The place to begin is by getting in touch with his feelings, becoming aware that he is an emotional creature in spite of the fact that he has denied that part of his life.

Love is not just good feelings for someone—it is an act of the will. Love, by its very essence, results in action.

Negative feelings are more often alleviated when they are ignored rather than pampered. When you act positively in spite of negative emotions, it tends to change the emotional climate between husband and wife.

On the other hand, we can share pain, sadness, and even anger in a kind manner, and that will be an expression of love. "I felt disappointed and hurt that you didn't offer to help me this evening," said with gentle directness, can be an expression of love. The person speaking wants to be known by her spouse. She is taking steps to build intimacy by sharing her feelings.

Are people so unhappy when they love?' 'Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.

Christine: 'Are people unhappy when they're in love?' Raoul: 'Yes, when they're in love and aren't sure of being loved.' Christine: 'Are you saying that for Erik?' Raoul: 'For Erik and for myself.

Are people so unhappy when they love? Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.

There is the relationship between the two of you as real people, and there is the relationship between the two shadows. The shadow is the part of us we do not know about. It is the hidden repository of all our old feelings and patterns. You come into the relationship bringing a shadow with you, as does the other person. If you and the other person do not look into what these shadows contain, your relationship will be between two shadows instead of the two of you as real people.

Words, when compared with feelings, are too concrete, too arbitrary, whereas feelings are richer but more elusive—ambiguous, if you will. Where words are muted, feelings begin.

I find myself crying unabashedly, then I try to suck it in, realizing this is inappropriate.

I do not know how better to express my feelings about it than by saying that I hated it for starving and humiliating me and loved it because it was my home, hated and loved it because it was the exemplar of old things, because it was weak, and because it seemed indestructible.