Quotes About Feelings

You can say what you like, but words won't change anything. I'm not happy.

On the myth of Eros) Each time I recall this myth, I wonder: Are we never to be able to see the true face of love? And I understand what the Greeks meant by this: Love is an act of faith and its face should always be covered in mystery. Every moment should be lived with feeling and emotion because if we try to decipher it and understand it, the magic disappears.

Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed.

Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end. Thank you, then, for your tears.

Why should I listen to my heart ? Because you will never again be able to keep it quite . Even if you pretend not to have heard what it tells you .

Because Library School will take up two whole years of my life, I have decided to keep a journal of events/feelings/reactions to it as long as I can stick it out. Judging from today, that might not be too long, but I will start with a reaction to yesterday so it will not be forgotten.

However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness.

No se puede parar el tiempo, pero para el amor a veces se detiene

Make love! He disliked the phrase. Could one make love?

It was not enough that she had never loved him. Love had nothing to do with responsibility.

If you can live with the sadness of human life (what Rinpoche often called the tender heart or the genuine heart of sadness), if you can be willing to feel fully and acknowledge continually your own sadness and the sadness of life, but at the same time not be drowned in it, because you also remember the vision and power of the Great Eastern Sun, you experience balance and completeness, joining heaven and earth, joining vision and practicality.

the life span of any particular emotion is only one and a half minutes. After that we have to revive the emotion and get it going again.

Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in order to overcome this whisper that you're not. That's a big contrast to actually uncovering the whisper, realizing that it's a passing memory, and moving closer to all those fears and all those edgy feelings that maybe you're not okay . Well, no big deal. None of us is okay and all of us are fine. We are walking, talking paradoxes.

Without the words, without the repetitive thoughts, the emotions don't last longer than one and a half minutes.

In Jill Bolte Taylor's book My Stroke of Insight, she points to scientific evidence showing that the life span of any particular emotion is only one and a half minutes. After that we have to revive the emotion and get it going again.

Disappointment, embarrassment, and all the places where we cannot feel good are a sort of death... It's actually a sign of health that when we meet the place we are about to die, we feel fear and trembling.

An insult angers me. Being ignored crushes me.

In every home in America, in the world, there was cruelty, anger and hatred - things I didn't feel.

Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and contolled it, whereas the sadness owned her.

There's tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that's okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit don't know what to do with all those feelings.

Anger is how you feel. Hate is not letting your anger flow

Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility.

It's not fair. It's not fair," she cried, knowing it was a child's argument but not caring, because being childish did not make it untrue.

Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one's emotions' attempt to contaminate one's opinions.