Quotes About Feelings

When our e-motions are not mirrored and named, we lose contact with one of our vital human powers. Parents who are out of touch with their own emotions cannot model those emotions for their children. They are out of touch and shut down. They are psychically numb. They are not even aware of what they are feeling. Their children have to unconsciously carry their feelings for them.

Your inner child also needs to learn the difference between expressing a feeling and acting on a feeling.

What I now understand is that when a child's development is arrested, when feelings are repressed, especially the feelings of anger and hurt, a person grows up to be an adult with an angry, hurt child inside [them]. This child will spontaneously contaminate the person's adult behavior.

When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and his character is strengthened. That allows a leader to lead himself successfully.

When I want to really get to know someone, I ask three questions. People's answers to these give me great insight into someone's heart. The questions are: What do you dream about? What do you sing about? What do you cry about?

If you are willing to change your thinking, you can change your feelings.

Cuando los valores, los pensamientos, los sentimientos y las acciones están alineados, la persona se enfoca y su carácter es fortalecido.

Los individuos no siempre recordarán lo que dijiste, no siempre recordarán lo que hiciste; no obstante, siempre recordarán como los hiciste sentir».

People will not always remember what you said. They will not always remember what you did. But, they will always remember how you made them feel.

Like all bitter men, Flint knew less than half the story and was more interested in unloading his own peppery feelings than in learning the truth.

And it was at the highest point in the arc of a bridge that I became aware suddenly of the depth and bitterness of my feelings about modern life, and of the profoundness of my yearning for a more vivid, simple, and peaceable world.

It seemed as though he had a fundamental belief that the merit of his argument depended on the strength of his feelings about the matter, and since he always felt uncontrollably passionate about everything, then clearly he was always right. This irrational claptrap, coming as it did from a swarthy, excitable, plump Celtic demi-dwarf, struck me not just as thoroughly impertinent but also as a noisy and ignorant attempt to undermine the most basic principles of the Enlightenment.

Yes, the hardest is the beginning. Yes, you get swallowed due to your feelings and suffocated from one opinion. But you have to just continue living.

Sometimes, no matter how much you love someone, they just don't have the capacity to love you back.

Life can get much more complicated when hearts get involved.

It's either you stop caring or you stop loving. There's no in between.

Confession is not betrayal, what you say or do doesn't matter. Only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you that would be the real betrayal.

There is love in your body but you can't get it out, it gets stuck in your head, won't come out of your mouth, sticks to your tongue and shows on your face. That the sweetest of words have the most bitter taste.

Love is like an hourglass, when the mind is empty, the heart is full.

When you truly love someone, you can't just be their friend.

Sometimes we have to hide our feelings, because the people we have the feelings for, may never understand how much we care about them.

My mind tells me to give up on love, but my heart won't let me.

Love isn't complicated, they love you or they don't. Or they want to be with you or they don't, it's that simple.

If I could do it all over again..i would know what it felt like to lose you, and if you give me one more chance, I promise, I would do everything in my power to keep you.