Quotes About Feelings

Our emotional feelings reflect our ability to subjectively experience certain states of the nervous system. Although conscious feeling states are universally accepted as major distinguishing characteristics of human emotions, in animal research the issue of whether other organisms feel emotions is little more than a conceptual embarrassment. Such states remain difficult—some claim impossible—to study empirically.

affective feelings help animals to better identify events in the world that are either biologically useful or harmful and to generate adaptive responses to many life-challenging circumstances

precognitive is taken to mean that these systems have an internal organization so that they could, in principle, generate emotional feelings with no direct input from either unconditioned or learned environmental inputs. For instance, a ill-placed tumor could generate a chronic state of emotional arousal, even though the underlying neural system is designed to be normally governed by external inputs.

I would suggest that subjectively experienced feelings arise, ultimately, from the interactions of various emotional systems with the fundamental brain substrates of "the self," but, as already mentioned, an in-depth discussion of that troublesome issue will be postponed until Chapter 16.

It's All in the Energy First, I teach becoming aware of four energy points: thoughts, words, feelings, and actions.

If you want to be successful, you have to take 100% responsibility for everything that you experience in your life. This includes the level of your achievements, the results you produce, the quality of your relationships, the state of your health and physical fitness, your income, your debts, your feelings—everything!

so every time you bring up that memory, you bring with it all the feelings and emotions you had at that time.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. ~Ernest Hemingway

A lot of times people use the excuse that they don't want to hurt another person's feelings. This is always a lie. If you ever catch yourself thinking this, what's really happening is that you're protecting yourself from your own feelings. You're avoiding what you will feel when they get upset. It is the coward's way out, and it simply delays having all your cards on the table.

There is no right reaction. There is only your reaction.

When it came to my heart I felt everything okay, but when I tried to express my feelings the words came out of me like invisible ink.

You don't carry it around with you like a sackful of cinders.

many people who come to spiritual practice are frightened by their feelings. They hope meditation will help them to transcend the messiness of the world and leave them invulnerable to difficult feelings. But this is a false transcendence, a denial of life. It is fear masquerading as wisdom.

We note feelings and find that they last for only a few seconds. We pay attention to thoughts and find that they are ephemeral, that they come and go, uninvited, like clouds.

There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of discomfort or pain is an important part of meditation practice, because it is one of the very first things that we open to as our practice develops.

We grieve for our past traumas and present fears, for all of the feelings we never dared experience consciously.

Expecting conceit they found courtesy. Expecting arrogance they found a man concerned with people's thoughts and feelings.

My memory begins with my anger.

There is no explanation for love. But love is all that matters, isn't it?

There's no explanation for love. But love is all that matters, isn't it?

He wondered where that stuff went to, where love went to, how a person could just love somebody one day and boom –- the next day love somebody else.

Ah! Si pudiese llegar y echarme a las rodillas de doña Mencía —me digo a mí mismo—, si pudiera ponerme bajo la salvaguardia de mi respetable madre, fantasmas, monstruos que os habéis ensañado conmigo, ¿os atreveréis a violar ese asilo? Allí volveré a encontrar, junto con los sentimientos de la naturaleza, los principios saludables de los que me he apartado; ellos serán mi escudo frente a vosotros.

Recunoa?terea sentimentelor actuale, cele pe care le avem la un moment dat - în loc s? le neg?m - este o form? de confirmare a sinelui. "Exist prin ceea ce simt ?i sunt în?eles". Gre?eala p?rin?ilor sau a educa?iei este cel mai adesea de a vrea s? negi, s? minimalizezi sau s? transformi sentimentul încercat de cel care este gelos, care se simte gelos... într-un sentiment pozitiv pe care nu-l are.

Uno es un grupo de contradicciones, intelectuales y emotivas. Solamente tú no eres una contradicción: siempre te quiero