Quotes About Feelings

Tears of joy are better than smiles of sorrow.

The soul's tears are worth more than the heart's smiles.

Kaname: Ichijou...about Aido... Ichijou: Hmmm? Kaname: He's beginning to get on my nerves... Ichijou: Well, he's in love with you.

Our memory is massively influenced by the strength of our feelings at the time.

You toyed with my heart, like it was a toy heart. (Lisa Simpson)

Music doesn't get in. Music is already in. Music simply uncovers what is there, makes you feel emotions that you didn't necessarily know you had inside you, and runs around waking them all up. A rebirth of sorts.

Accept feelings and accept that they are just that: feelings.

The price for being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might just be a capacity to feel a whole universe's worth of darkness.

Another strange thing was how absence had intensified my feelings for her. How I craved the sweet everyday reality of just being with her, of having a mundane conversation about how our days had been. The gentle but unbettered comfort of coexistence. I couldn't think of a better purpose for the universe than for her to be in it.

Crying releases stress hormones. Swearing increases pain tolerance. Fury can motivate us into action. Feel what you feel. Silence and smiles aren't the only way to respond to pain. Sometimes it is good to howl.

Good. You are, of course, allowed to love food and music and champagne and rare sunny afternoons in October. You can love the sight of waterfalls and the smell of old books, but the love of people is off limits. Do you hear me? Don't attach yourself to people, and try to feel as little as you possibly can for those you do meet. Because otherwise you will slowly lose your mind . . .

Or maybe, just maybe, he'd got close enough to sense the melancholy that sits at the core of her, usually hidden deep behind a superficial mask of cheerful sarcasm.

Memories were just future sadness stored away

Accept. Don't fight things, feel them. Tension is about opposition, relaxation is about letting go.

No single feeling becomes the only feeling if you let it all happen. And the way to let it all happen is to see the value in it all, in everything. To see the way the dark might lead to the light and the way present pain might lead to future hope.

Nothing makes you feel smaller, more trivial, than such a vast transformation inside your own mind while the world carries on, oblivious. Yet nothing is more freeing. To accept your smallness in the world.

What we say aloud can never quite capture what we feel inside, but that is almost the point. Words don't capture, they release.

If the modern world is making us feel bad, then it doesn't matter what else we have going for us, because feeling bad sucks.

We use "depressed" as a synonym for "sad," which is fine, as we use "starving" as a synonym for "hungry," though the difference between depression and sadness is the difference between genuine starvation and feeling a bit peckish.

Crying releases stress hormones. Swearing increases pain tolerance. Fury can motivate us into action. Feel what you feel.

We don't have to have tried every variety of grape from every vineyard to know the pleasure of wine. Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies. ... We are as completely and utterly alive as we are in any other life and have access to the same emotional spectrum.

didn't save you. You were just lucky. But I really think you should ignore feelings like that. That was a moment in your life. You have a lot more days to live. About twenty-four thousand more days to live, probably. That's a lot of moments. You could do many great things in that time. You could read a lot of poetry.

But recently, now, I was starting to feel that you couldn't do mathematics with emotions. In protecting yourself from hurt you could create a new, subtler type of pain.

We are as completely and utterly alive as we are in any other life and have access to the same emotional spectrum.