Quotes About Feelings

I fight with you because I have a heart problem. Rather than my heart being ruled by God and motivated by God's honor, my heart is ruled by my wants, my needs, and my feelings.

The Lord, like every woman I have ever known, was cold and distant.

Projection bias is what behavioral scientists call the scenario when we mistakenly use our current feelings to project how we will feel in the future.

Emotions change how we see the world and how we interpret the actions of others. We do not seek to challenge why we are feeling a particular emotion; instead, we seek to confirm it.

the unhappy person is expected to conceal negative feelings, putting on a polite smile to accompany the "Just fine, thank you, and how are you?" reply to the "How are you today?" The true feelings will probably go undetected, not because the smile is such a good mask but because in polite exchanges people rarely care how the other person actually feels.

Really focus on how the person makes you feel. Relationships should compliment you and support you and make you feel good about yourself so try to stay away from people who have a toxic effect on you.

You'll find when you are sad, there'll come a point when you are so sad you don't even know you are sad anymore. It's quite nice.

Concerning feelings, the most important point to remember is that everyone has them, and we should never be ashamed nor apologize for feeling the way we do. Feelings have no moral value.

Feelings are best handled by expressing them, and worst handled by denying them, by pretending they don't exist.

tells people how to recognize and deal with their feelings, and how to help others do the same thing by working through their mutual communications problems. Like Hendrix, he places great emphasis on listening. He lists three phases of ethical persuasion: First, exploring the other's position (listening), then explaining your viewpoint, and finally creating resolution.

We are often called upon to defend our opinions; we need never defend our feelings

He stresses the wisdom of complaining, of expressing rather than storing negative feelings. These feelings belong to you, not the other person. Expressing them is a proper way of handling them. But criticizing, on the other hand, constitutes a direct attack on your partner's character.

Today I see myself as a spiritual being with three distinct human facets: I am what I think; I am what I do; I am what I feel. And, to the degree that I control my thinking, I control my actions. To the degree that I control both my thinking and my actions, I control my feelings. Then, the circle is completed when my feelings affect my thinking which again affects my actions.

keep principles before personalities.7 We adhere to the principle of honestly stating our feelings, but we do not discuss personalities.

With increasing awareness of both how we feel at any particular moment, and why we have chosen to feel that way, we develop the ability to change our emotional state if we wish to do so. We generate an awareness of whether we have chosen our current feelings or have allowed them to be implanted by an outside person or circumstance.

Oddly enough, not everyone wants to be affected in a positive way. Some individuals are addicted to their negative feelings. Just as many drinking people place little value on physical sobriety and never get sober, so too, many of us place little value on our emotional sobriety and never get comfortable.

I chose to get angry when you did what you did.

with that in unbiased and will hopefully understand my feelings.

Romance always involved a bit of deceit.

Love is a word for unfinished business, I think.

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

What you feel is what you feel – that's what we woodtrolls say.' She patted Maris on the shoulder. 'And knowing how you feel is the first step to changing how you feel,' she said. 'If you really want to.' Maris

When their feelings don't fit the facts, they may unconsciously revise the facts to fit their feelings. This may be one reason why their perception of events is different from yours.

They may then try to cope in ways that do not work, or that even make the situation worse. Meanwhile, the unhealthy behaviors of the person with BPD get reinforced, because others accept responsibility for the feelings and actions that actually belong to the person with the disorder.