Quotes About Feelings

love is a verb. Reactive people make it a feeling. They're driven by feelings.

My friend, love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her.

But how do you love when you don't love?" "My friend, love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Serve her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her. Are you willing to do that?

Proactive people subordinate feelings to values.

Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values—carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.

We feel the key to staying in love is to talk, particularly about feelings. We try to communicate with each other several times every day, even when I'm traveling. It's like coming into home base, which accesses all the happiness, security, and values it represents. Thomas Wolfe was wrong. You can go home again—if your home is a treasured relationship, a precious companionship.

My friend, love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love

At one seminar where I was speaking on the concept of proactivity, a man came up and said, "Stephen, I like what you're saying. But every situation is so different. Look at my marriage. I'm really worried. My wife and I just don't have the same feelings for each other we used to have. I guess I just don't love her anymore and she doesn't love me. What can I do?" "The feeling isn't there anymore?" I asked.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of. PASCAL

Then love her. If the feeling isn't there, that's a good reason to love her." "But how do you love when you don't love?" "My friend, love is a verb. Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Serve her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her. Are you willing to do that?

Žmon?s apskritai yra pažeidžiami ir jautr?s,tai, manau nepriklauso nuo amžiaus ar gyvenimo patirties. Iš paži?ros tvirta žmogaus išor? dažnai slepia švelnius jausmus ir šilt? šird?.

REACTIVE LANGUAGE PROACTIVE LANGUAGE There's nothing I can do. Let's look at our alternatives. That's just the way I am. I can choose a different approach. He makes me so mad. I control my own feelings. They won't allow that. I can create an effective presentation.

In the great literature of all progressive societies, love is a verb. Reactive people make it a feeling. They're driven by feelings.

List the three or four things you would consider "first things" in your life. Consider any long range goals you might have set. Think about the most important relationships in your life. Think about any contributions you'd like to make. Reaffirm the feelings you want to have in your life—peace, confidence, happiness, contribution, meaning. Think about how you might spend this week if you knew you only had six months to live.

Quality begins with me. And I need to make my own decisions based on carefully selected principles and values." Proactivity cultivates this freedom. It subordinates your feelings to your values. You accept your feelings: "I'm frustrated, I'm angry, I'm upset. I accept those feelings; I don't deny or repress them. Now I know what needs to be done. I am responsible." That's the principle "I am response-able.

Se ha demostrado que la toma de decisiones más se basa en las emociones y en las suposiciones que en la lógica.

We may also notice … each feeling … is transitory and impermanent. Eventually, through simple observation, our feelings, while no less vivid, will become less urgent, and will cease to have such a firm hold on our emotions and actions. We will be able to see each feeling as it arises without feeling compelled to act on it.

Just because you discover that you may like somebody after all, it doesn't necessarily mean there's any attraction.

In the ACT approach, a goal of healthy living is not so much to feel good as to feel good. It is psychologically healthy to have unpleasant thoughts and feelings as well as pleasant ones, and doing so gives us full access to the richness of our unique personal histories

Tom told me he didn't think about Gloria's feelings at all. It didn't even occur to him that she might think something about her had turned him off—which was, of course, not the case. The fact is that the relationship had nowhere to go except toward commitment, and this set off Tom's internal alarm system. After that, all he could think about was putting out the fire.

Even when he is behaving in a totally destructive manner, there is a tendency on the part of many women to expect the feelings he expressed in the Beginning to reemerge and make everything right.

Un blog también puede ser un buen lugar para desahogarse, perorar (y, ocasionalmente, despotricar) respecto a asuntos de un carácter más personal.

emotion is the enemy of rational argument.

Identical twins think and feel in such similar ways that they sometimes suspect they are linked by telepathy.