Quotes About Feelings

You and I are very strong, and so is your Poppa, but you're not so strong as a brick. When things happen, you will have to feel them. You can't try to avoid that; if it's your nature, go along with it

I was frightened of myself, I seemed to have no control over my thoughts and feelings, it was like a sort of madness...

Remember, she has a right-and you have an obligation-to protect her from a sense of premature intrusion into her private feelings, particularly since you have not assessed what effect such revelations will have on her functioning.

The sum total of all this, then, is that you want to ask only about facts and information the client can provide without having to probe her feelings or motivations. After all, if she were clear about her feelings, she probably wouldn't be coming for help with a problem in the first place. Furthermore, asking "why" can lead you into making premature judgments about the client's problem, since you will be fighting the desire for explanations and conclusions.

You look good. You look like shit. That's how I feel. Good. What do you want? He gave her a faint smile. To tell you how much I love you, Izzy. I probably have from the first moment we met.

She felt too much and didn't know where to put it.

Susan Mallery

I think you're attracted to me and you don't know how to handle it." She

Did you tell him you love him? My mom says men have trouble with that sometimes because they're emotionally immature.

I don't think love is something you can start and stop by choosing. Our hearts tell us who we will love, and not the other way.

Love was both the softest edge and the sharpest edge of what made life real.

Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies.

One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

I'm in love. Don't ask me how it's possible. It's just not in character; my nightmare-ridden, stubborn, melancholy character. And yet, it's happened.

Like other diseases that arouse feelings of shame, AIDS is often a secret, but not from the patient. A cancer diagnosis was frequently concealed from patients by their families; an AIDS diagnosis is at least as often concealed from their families by patients.

Did I feel all that? So much? As sounds decays into inadudibility, euphoria decays into indifference, and that is always unexpected, the way exalted feelings are weakened, undone by time.

Here is where the modern cult of love enters: it is the main way in which we test ourselves for strength of feeling, and find ourselves deficient.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing "we" can do—but who is that "we"?—and nothing "they" can do either—and who are "they"?—then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.

My repressed feelings leak out —slowly – in the form of resentment – a continual leakage of resentment.

But even one-way love, fleeting love, is better than no love at all. I'm grateful for having had the feeling.

Everybody's in love when they're eighteen. And everybody gets dumped.

Maybe you're not meant to remember the details. Just the feelings. Just the lessons. Just the love. pp274

Why do you keep trying to make me feel better? Because it sucks for you, the things you found out today, and there's no fixing any of them. And because I like you. You like me... That's what I said. How? What? How do you like me? As a person you feel sorry for because I just found out some really bad news? As someone you've been working with this summer? As an ex-girlfriend you still have old feelings for? Close. As an ex-girlfriend I have new feelings for.

Gale winds of emotion shuddered through her in unending waves.