When you’re angry you act according to your emotions, not with your mind.

[I]t wasn’t history that was too fragile, but me.

It is difficult to love someone who loves you, but easy to hate someone who loves you, and love someone who hates you.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

When you know truly know that God loves you it won’t matter when others don’t. And when you know truly know that God accepts you it won’t matter when others won’t.

I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

She knows what it is to be sad and miserable, but those emotions are almost enjoyable. They throw moments of happiness and laughter into sharper relief.

Now I was falling faster than a comet plummeting to the earth, just waiting to create a giant explosion. Just like a comet, I had no idea exactly how much damage I would leave in...

To be happy, you must let go of all the negative beliefs, emotions and people that are holding you back in life.

That’s what violence was: emotion leaking out from consciousness into the physical world, linking up with the muscles of the arms and shoulders and diaphragm and, inevitably, the face. Stifle emotion during an act of...

A person who wants to know everything eventually comes to a stage where his/her curiosity of knowing everything comes to an end and that is the stage of Enlightenment.

In between every action and reaction, there is a space. Usually the space is extremely small because we react so quickly, but take notice of that space and expand it. Be aware in that space...

We all had emotion for the seniors.

People that hold onto hate for so long do so because they want to avoid dealing with their pain. They falsely believe if they forgive they are letting their enemy believe they are a doormat....

Dishonoring what we feel is an epidemic that has us self-medicating as a culture and trying to numb ourselves.

Artists shouldn’t wait until they are told what their art should be, they shouldn’t follow trends or allow other people to influence their work, an artist should only create from the strongest emotions within their...

People not only stood to respect it but perhaps their thoughts and heartbeats came to standstill, and only inspiration and patriotism was flowing through their veins.

Just remember that those who feel profoundly depressed are those whose happiness is likewise intense. What’s so wrong with that?

Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain.

Getting all emotionally wrapped up in made-up people’s lives gives me a chance to take a break from my own life […].

I didn’t want to fall in love. Looking at you gave me chills and kissing you made my knees weak. You made flowers grow and fill the space in my lungs which made it impossible...

I’ve never been so sure about the rest of my life than I am in this moment. This girl is the rest of my life.

This win is for the other seniors who have worked hard for four years. I told them emotion would last for the first three minutes of the game, so we had to be ready to...

We are the wire, and tomorrow is like yesterday with a furry back. Don’t pet me, Tuesday! Please don’t Wednesday with my emotions.

Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.

Learning to have patience and not forcing the relationship is part of the twin soul process. If you are trying to force your will onto the other person, chances are you’re not ready to really...

Mike has just been so good from the beginning. When I first started with Schumacher, that’s who I wanted. I didn’t know if I was going to get hired or not, but I told Don...

I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me like snakes and toads looking for a chance to sneak out before I could...

Maybe this is a second doctoral program: advanced learning about life, death, marriage, mothering, family, faith, patience, prayer. My degree will be ‘Doctor of Life,’ and I will be in good company. So many of...

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

Emotion goes inside-out. Emotional contagion, though, suggests that the opposite is also true. If I can make you smile, I can make you happy. If I can make you frown, I can make you sad....

Feelings are not as uncomfortable to experience as they are to express.

Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.

They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die.

Our observer is not affected by emotional ups and downs, our personal life dramas, or by the events of the external world. It is our observer, at the core of our being, that teaches us...

Culture alone cannot explain the phenomena of such high rates of eating disorders. Eating disorders are complex, but what they all seem to have in common is the ability to distract women from the memories,...

I’ve read somewhere in a book when something happens that is unbearable to you, sometimes, time stops. Like your inner clock just stops working, even if the world keeps spinning you will stand still for...

I had never been in love with anyone before in my life, but I knew the feeling when it came bursting into my soul, like a million butterflies swirling around inside of me, like a...

Remember when we didn’t know that colours can mix and form other colours. When we were not introduced to strokes that brushes can form, when light and dark were not necessary for the picture to...

Some dissociative parts of the personality, living in trauma time, may experience the same emotion no matter the situation, such as fear, rage, shame, sadness, yearning and even some positive ones just as joy.* Other...

Hate is a terrible thing. It’s a wasteful, stupid emotion. You can hate someone with all your heart, but it’ll never do them a bit of harm. The only person it hurts is you. You...

and it was the pretending that might explain how she could smile so brightly while her mind felt nothing – as if, at these times, there existed a disconnection between outer and inner, a shutting...

Anger … it’s a paralyzing emotion … you can’t get anything done. People sort of think it’s an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don’t think it’s any of that — it’s helpless …...

I’m tired of hurting from the people who leave me. I’m tired of getting comfortable with others. I tell you everything and you leave. It’s like you’re take what is good in me and all...

The one who cries, is always the one who is in need.

It is not a person or situation that affects your life; it is the meaning you give to that person or situation, which influences your emotions and actions. Your choice is to change the meaning...

While genes are pivotal in establishing some aspects of emotionality, experience plays a central role in turning genes on and off. DNA is not the heart’s destiny; the genetic lottery may determine the cards in...

For sixteen years, I had seen just emptiness in those eyes. Her eloquent eyes had lost their expressiveness to destiny.

This is really emotional for me.

Memories and emotions could be the greatest form of torture.