Quotes About Feelings

The truth is I love you. I think I've loved you for as long as I've known you. Like a little sister in the early years and then as a friend. But last Christmas something changed. I backed away from it because it was too...I don't know...I guess because I was worried it would change everything. But it had already changed everything, hadn't it? There was no going back.

Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable.

I don't love you anymore... I love someone else. I always have. -Schuyler

Feelings, which aren't always rational, have their own life span and sometimes, for whatever reason, need to be lived out.

Today he hasn't been half as irritating, which I find rather irritating.

Codependents: don't trust themselves. don't trust their feelings. don't trust their decisions. don't trust other people. try to trust untrustworthy people.

I reacted to other people's feelings, behaviors, problems, and thoughts. I reacted to what they might by feeling, thinking, or doing. I reacted to my own feelings, my own thoughts, my own problems. My strong point seemed to be reacting to crises—I thought almost everything was a crisis. I overreacted.

We've realized that women have souls, and men have feelings.

We don't need to eliminate all our reactions to people and problems. Reactions can be useful. They help us identify what we like and what feels good. They help us identify problems in and around us. But most of us react too much. And much of what we react to is nonsense. It isn't all that important, and it doesn't merit the time and attention we're giving it. Some of what we react to is other people's reactions to us.

Of all the judgments that we pass in life, none is as important as the one we pass on ourselves, for that judgment touches the very center of our existence. … No significant aspect of our thinking, motivation, feelings, or behavior is unaffected by our self-evaluation….

remember the key principles: boundaries, letting go, forgiveness after feeling my feelings—not before, self-expression, loving others but loving myself, too.

We don't have to feel guilty whenever we experience anger. We don't have to feel guilty. Breathe deeply. We can shamelessly feel all our feelings, including anger, and still take responsibility for our behaviors.

Our consciousness, as individuals and as a society, has been raised. We've realized that women have souls, and men have feelings.

Feelings are emotional energy; they are not personality traits.

When I awoke, my first thoughts and feelings were painful.

Don't complicate grief. It's not abnormal. There isn't a right way to grieve. Becoming aware of a feeling neutralizes that emotion. That feeling disappears and another one takes its place.

It (detachment) is not detaching from the person whom we care about, but from the agony of involvement.

Feeling hurt does not have to be so frightening. We do not have to work so hard to avoid it. While hurt feelings aren't as much fun as feeling happy, they are, still, just feelings.

We don't have to analyze or justify our feelings. We need to feel them, and try not to let them control our behavior.

To acknowledge how we really feel would demand a decision—action or change—on our part.2 It would bring us face to face with reality.

I couldn't disappoint her because I thought she couldn't handle or be responsible for her feelings. I couldn't tell the truth, because I thought she might be angry with me-more emotional responsibility-as if someone else's anger is my business.

In an article from the book Co-Dependency, An Emerging Issue, Robert Subby writes that codependency is "an emotional, psychological, and behavioral condition that develops as a result of an individual's prolonged exposure to, and practice of, a set of oppressive rules—rules which prevent the open expression of feeling as well as the direct discussion of personal and interpersonal problems.

Each person's feelings are his or her own. Nobody makes anyone feel; no one is ultimately responsible for our feelings except us, no matter how much we insist they are. People might help us feel, but they don't make us feel. People also cannot change the way we feel. Only we can do that.

Maybe you don't need that much help to feel. Remember, feelings are indicators and motivators. Watch for patterns in our feelings. They tell us a great deal about ourselves and our relationships.