Quotes About Feelings

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Love truly is not a finite emotion. It can be generated spontaneously out of nothing at all.

Love truly is not a finite emotion, she realized. It can be generated spontaneously out of nothing at all.

one way most of us deal with feelings is to ignore them or pretend they don't exist—to deny them. Then, as the pressure builds, we occasionally experience emotional episodes such as arguments or explosions (and we may later berate ourselves for having "lost control").

Some of us center our lives around other people's feelings; we try to make them happy. But since you can't control your feelings, how can you possibly fix the feelings of others? The plain truth is that feeling responsible for someone else's unhappiness (or happiness) is simply not realistic

Emotions are like waves on the sea or weather in the skies, rising and passing of their own accord. You cannot control your feelings by an act of intention or will. So you are not responsible for your feelings; only for your response to them. Accept emotions completely, let your feelings be; just don't let them run your life.

Recognize that feelings fade unless restimulated, and use this to your advantage. Avoid restimulating undesired feelings.

True love is not feelings or flowery words; it is action. Love is as love does

David longed for recognition for his good grades, but his Depriving, Perfectionistic parents rarely made even a comment. "I did everything I was supposed to but they never approved. They never asked me how I felt, they just told me how I should react. Rules were more important than feelings." On family car rides, David's parents plunked him in the backseat and talked about him as if he weren't there.

She numbs her feelings, because they are bigger than she is.

told me his heart was so full he could say no more to me.

Pues las alegrías súbitas, como las penas, al principio desconciertan.

For sudden joys, like grief's, confound at first.

1. Knowing one's emotions. Self-awareness—recognizing a feeling as it happens—is the keystone of emotional intelligence. As

The most powerful form of nondefensive listening, of course, is empathy: actually hearing the feelings behind what is being said.

The neocortex allows for the subtlety and complexity of emotional life, such as the ability to have feelings about our feelings.

La vida es una comedia para quienes piensan y una tragedia para quienes sienten. Horace Walpole

Empathy builds on self-awareness; the more open we are to our own emotions, the more skilled we will be in reading feelings.

shapes those feelings.

Los sentimientos desempeñan un papel fundamental para navegar a través de la incesante corriente de las decisiones personales que la vida nos obliga a tomar.

Just as a sexual fantasy can lead to sexual feelings, so can happy memories cheer us up, or melancholy thoughts make us reflective.

Love, tender feelings, and sexual satisfaction entail parasympathetic arousal—the physiological opposite of the "fight-or-flight" mobilization shared by fear and anger.

porque constituye el vínculo entre los sentimientos, el carácter y los impulsos morales.

For the Stoics, one key was seeing that our feelings about life's events, not those events themselves, determine our happiness; we find equanimity by distinguishing what we can control in life from what we cannot.