Quotes About Feelings

The uncertainty of certain feelings is the best way to break them.

Remember that one time I told you I liked you? I meant it, but I dont think you care.. and that is what breaks my heart.

She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.

the anatomy of depression and of its four key dimensions: feelings, thoughts, body sensations, and behaviors

We often have very little empathy for our own thoughts and feelings and frequently try to suppress them by dismissing them as weaknesses.

The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

My paintings are not the executions of one idea or emotion that goes from (a) intention to (b) artwork. (Our notions of cause and effect are also in bad shape.) Drawings are closer and quicker in conveying immediate feelings. The more you move towards paintings, the darker the wood becomes through which Little Red Riding Hood goes, and it's not only the wolf but also the wicked with and the seven dwarfs, Judas and Jesus and the journalists, whom she has to face.

I pushed away my dessert, suddenly no longer hungry. Resentment had a way of filling up your stomach.

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.

For you to say that sadness is not the absence of happiness, but the opposite of it.

Wife: Why don't you tell me that you love me? Husband: I told you I loved you thirty years ago when I married you. If I change my mind, I'll let you know.

Feelings are. They come plowing into my life without warning, permission or balance. They simply show up and take over my brain.

Our emotions are meant to draw us toward God, not away from Him.

Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.

why is it that happiness can disappear in an instant but sadness stays around forever?

when people hear anything that sounds like criticism, they tend to invest their energy in self-defense or counterattack. If we wish for a compassionate response from others, it is self-defeating to express our needs by interpreting or diagnosing their behavior. Instead, the more directly we can connect our feelings to our own needs, the easier it is for others to respond to us compassionately.

All criticism, attack, insults, and judgments vanish when we focus attention on hearing the feelings and needs behind a message. The more we practice in this way, the more we realize a simple truth: behind all those messages we've allowed ourselves to be intimidated by are just individuals with unmet needs appealing to us to contribute to their well-being.

NVC heightens our awareness that what others say and do may be the stimulus, but never the cause, of our feelings. We see that our feelings result from how we choose to receive what others say and do, as well as from our particular needs and expectations in that moment. With this third component, we are led to accept responsibility for what we do to generate our own feelings.

feelings result from how we choose to receive what others say and do, as well as from our particular needs and expectations in that moment.

The language of wrongness, should, and have to is perfectly suited for this purpose: the more people are trained to think in terms of moralistic judgments that imply wrongness and badness, the more they are being trained to look outside themselves—to outside authorities—for the definition of what constitutes right, wrong, good, and bad. When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings.

Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing. I believe life-alienating communication is rooted in views of human nature that have exerted their influence for several centuries. These views stress humans' innate evil and deficiency, and a need for education to control our inherently undesirable nature.