Quotes About Feelings

without emotion to guide us, we have no compass. We are bereft of direction and have nothing to move us toward one option rather than another. We are stuck pondering all the possibilities.

Emotion apprises us that something vital to our welfare is occurring. We are bombarded by hundreds of thousands of stimuli every second of every day. Emotion automatically and reflexively sorts through the barrage, picking out what matters and steering us to the appropriate action. Our feelings guide us in issues large and small; they tell us what we want, what our preferences are, and what we need.

You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.

People say love gets fouled by a difference big as ours. I didn't know for sure whether Miss Sarah's feelings came from love or guilt. I didn't know whether mine came from love or a need to be safe. She loved me and pitied me. And I loved her and used her. It never was a simple thing. That day, our hearts were pure as they ever would get.

The only thing I wanted was for her to understand. Somebody to let out a big sigh and say, You poor thing, I know how you feel. Given a choice, I preferred someone to understand my situation, even though she was helpless to fix it, rather than the other way around. But that's just me. Right

All this love coming to me. I didn't know what to do with it. I wanted to say, I love you, too. I love you all. The feeling rose up in me like a column of wind, but when it got to my mouth, it had no voice, no words. Just a lot of air and longing.

You know what? You think too much. It would do you a world of good to stop thinking and just go with your feelings once in a blue moon.

It was respect she had for feelings, how she believed it was inimical to the soul to deny them.

I have noticed that, if you look carefully at people's eyes, the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through, for just an instant before it flickers away.

struggling to compress the vastness of what I felt into words.

My heart is full," Yaltha told her. "So full it's difficult for me to speak.

But frankly, it may not be possible to completely avoid the clash of feelings that accompanies powerful transitions. Sometimes the exchange may be calm and fruitful, but often it's a wild taxi ride.

but inside a woman's there are only longings.

Words collected in my mouth and lay there.

La ira puede cambiar con el tiempo a alegría; el enojo puede ser reemplazado por el contento.

But I don't want to have to stop feeling. I really think I'd rather die than stop feeling.

Thoughts are often false. A feeling's always real. Not true, just real

Me amas real o no Real

The great common denominator among women with unloving mothers is the longing for validation—to find someone who will say, "Yes, what you experienced really happened. Yes, your feelings are justified. I understand.

The charade of the normal family" is especially damaging to a child because it forces him to deny the validity of his own feelings and perceptions.

When you apologize to your children, you are teaching them to trust their feelings and perceptions. You are saying, "The things I did that you thought were unfair were unfair. You were right to feel that way.

Anger is an emotion just as joy and fear are. It is neither right nor wrong—it just is.

When you ignore your needs for the sake of your mother's feelings, you are doing a disservice not only to yourself but to your mother, as well. The anger and resentment that you will inevitably feel cannot help but affect your relationship. And if your efforts to make your mother happy fail, you will feel guilty and inadequate.

Rationalization is what we do when we smooth over any insight that interferes with our good feelings. It's a way of making the unacceptable acceptable. By giving good reasons for what would otherwise distress us, we make sense out of confusing and even frightening situations.